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MADD and other groups are promoting nonalcoholic postprom parties for high schoolers. To prevent youngsters from slipping away for a furtive belt, the usual rule is that people who leave the party are not allowed back in. Many of the parties are planned around a feverish array of activities, all designed to keep the mind off booze. At Cherry Creek High School outside Denver, the postprom bash this year featured volleyball in the gym, water games in the pool, disco dancing, a magic show, ten video games and a makeshift casino. Free hot dogs, nachos and soft drinks were served...
Going some place in a feverish hurry, though exactly where is the next question, a bay bullet called Spend A Buck streaked away with the Kentucky Derby last week, posting the third-sprightliest mile and a quarter (2:00 1/5) in 111 springs at Churchill Downs. Stephan's Odyssey finished second, more than five lengths behind, and the 6-to-5 favorite, Chief's Crown, was third. Far up the track, or at least it seemed so, came that old plug tradition, which may be losing ground even...
...proliferation of the paper, though, is causing both moneymen and legislators to wonder whether the junk pile could collapse. Last week New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici introduced a Senate bill that would halt the feverish growth by putting a moratorium until the end of the year on most takeovers financed by junk bonds. The bill could put a stop to deals like Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens' plan to acquire Unocal with some $3 billion in junk bonds, one of the largest issues ever proposed...
...struggling Blue envies Eli's material success. Eacl, lives vicariously through the other and so neither is fully satisfied with himself. This complicated mixture of love and jealously, hate and loyalty, repeatedly erupts in unspoken competition for the same women. Cinematographer Michael Bauhaus transforms the neon of L.A. into feverish yellows and red that bathe the discos and hambutget stands where Eli and Blue confront themselves and each other: music by Langerine Dream and Nona Hendris lends a funks and somewhat warped surreal feeling to the goings...
However, the real apex of the night was certainly his last scene to "Rocka My Soul in the Bostom of Abraham." The entire company creates a feverish excitement as the music builds on the picture of mesmerizing dancers. Yellow skirts fly and bodies sway to this extraordinarily contagious music. The entire company danced in this piece that displayed amazing talent as well as a genuines excitement...