Word: deb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once a prisoner qualifies for release, he enrolls in the Boston Resource Employment Program, which is run by the correctional system. According to Deb Hung '88, leader of the Harvard group that goes to the Resource Center, these prisoners are out on prerelease. They hold a job and live in one of many halfway houses in Boston. These prisoners are essentially on the street, "but they have counselors, must check in wherever they go and account for every penny they spend," Hung says...
...Deb is different," says sophomore Robin Boss. "She's better at making the team work, and not as concerned with her personal game...
...Deb is out there to win for the team," says freshman Cyndy Austrian...
...Society. The privileged crowd thinned out in the '60s, when the young singles and couples moved on to other cities or, more likely, the suburbs, to alcohol or to the angry consciousness of the Viet Nam epoch. Two decades later, a couple of nostalgic veterans of the deb-party circuit decide to revive the Snow Ball. Cooper Jones is a wearily married vice president of the real estate company founded by his grandfather; Lucy Dunbar is an irritable divorcee. In planning the dance, they lapse into a perfunctory affair...
...talk and ripping off of psychic scabs. But this film maker is, spookily, inside kids. He knows how the ordinary teenagers, the ones who don't get movies made about them, think and feel: why the nerd would carry a fake ID ("So I can vote"), and why the deb would finally be nice to the strange girl (" 'Cause you're letting me"). He has learned their dialect and decoded it for sympathetic adults. With a minimum of genre pandering--only one Footloose dance imitation , --and with the help of his gifted young ensemble, Hughes shows there is a life...