Word: prom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, and for only one brief spell in 1981 had they attained the No. 1 spot in the college rankings. Head coach Gerry Faust, who during his tenure from 1981 to 1985 racked up a lackluster 30-26-1 record, had let the Irish unravel. Once courted like a prom queen in postseason play, Notre Dame appeared in just two bowl games: Liberty (1983) and Aloha (1984). The team, it seemed, was fading from national prominence...
EVERYBODY'S ALL-AMERICAN. A college star (Dennis Quaid) peaks early; his prom- queen wife (Jessica Lange) piques often; a star-struck bookworm (Timothy Hutton) peeks into their problems. Taylor Hackford's entertaining soap opera polishes the cliches until they shine like movie truths...
...luminous actress returns to the screen in two challenging roles: a prom queen turned suffering wife in Everybody' s All- American; a daft and dutiful daughter in Far North...
...tell the difference between [Michael S. Dukakis and George Bush]. They're both like the guy we remember from high school at the junior prom: both he and his date brought their homework," Russell said...
...parody of an ideal American couple, circa 1960. Mommy (Holly Cate) spends her days shopping or meeting with her women's auxilliary club, while Daddy (Donal Logue) spends his reading the paper in his easy chair. Mommy wears a bright pink party dress, the kind that domestic ex-prom queens like June Cleaver and Donna Reed wore on TV sitcoms in the 1950s and early 1960s. In fact, TV-sitcom theme songs play in the background to drive home the point of Mommy and Daddy's TV-perfect lifestyle...