Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lincoln High School varsity football practice two days before the big homecoming game, and the fullback, during a break in the pop and crunch of colliding pads, says to the halfback, "I still have to go pick up a dress for the dance...
This can't be just any dress either. Luisana Cruz, a 17-year-old senior, is a finalist for homecoming queen at her mostly Hispanic school in the Lincoln Heights section of Los Angeles. She hopes to wear both a football helmet and a crown before the day is done on Friday. "I want it bad," says Cruz, who is also student-body president and is listed on the football program at 5 ft. 6 in., 151 lbs. "But that's with the pads," she says defensively of her weight. She doesn't have a date for the dance...
...CityStep Ball and all its promotion has come again this fall. "Oh-Aahs" ring through the dining halls and some friend, no matter how distant, has already made you promise to come. CityStep is one of the first excuses to rent a tux or slap on a dress for an evening away from Cambridge, but for most Harvard students, when the music stops and the pictures are back from CVS, CityStep becomes just a faded memory...
...piano, and designer Tommy Hilfiger ponied up $112,000 for jeans and cowboy boots. The sale's highest price went to an item with perhaps the least to show for itself: owners of a collectibles shop paid nearly $1.3 million for the all-but-bare dress Monroe wore in 1962 when she sang Happy Birthday to President Kennedy...
...JESSIE FOVEAUX, 100, plainspoken great-great-grandmother who sold her first book, Any Given Day, at 98, for $1 million; in Duluth, Minn. On hearing of the sale of her memoir, which grew out of a writing class for seniors, she said, "I might just get myself a new dress...