Word: highschool
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Formal What you called a prom in highschool...
Perhaps it is this head start that makes highschool counselors and administrators alikeconfident that Harvard will never be surpassed...
...death was an accident, another murderat her hands would not be inconceivable. Thehorror movie element is intensified by theperiodic dizzying flashbacks with stop-actionfilming and bizarre lighting that highlights Liz'sbruised body and the discovery of her body by herparents. And of course, the mere setting of highschool alone also makes this film fit the horrorgenre. If it isn't a ghastly retainer (worn byper-"Vylette" Fern) or snobby cheerleaders (one ofwhom is played by Tatyana Ali '02 ), then it'sthe feeling of alienation felt by Fern that fuelsher wish to be somebody other than a nobody...
Shrier's protagonists, who have grown upcomfortable with secular America despite theirOrthodox upbringing and Jewish schooling, arespending time in Israel after graduation from highschool, theoretically devoted to the study oftraditional Jewish texts. They are exposed to amore radical brand of Orthodoxy, and they do notknow whether change is good, or what change meansfor their unformed identities. Some of the boyschange more than others; some put up a brave frontto protect themselves from change; one boy, it isalleged--and here's the ostensible dramaticmotivation for the play--commits suicide becausehe is confused and distressed by the Yeshivaatmosphere...
...think that kids get enough of it in highschool that I don't think anything is going tohelp. They've already made their decision," says asophomore in Mather House...