Word: prom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Inaugural Address, by his drill sergeant of a high school wrestling coach, by the Marine recruiter looking for a few good men. Men! Ron wants to be one of them, in the nifty new theater called Viet Nam. He hardly has time for a dance at the senior prom -- just a promise of sexual pleasures with sweet Donna (Kyra Sedgwick), deferred till after he has done his duty. After he finds his manhood...
...mention everything that ever happened in the 1980s. Except my high school senior prom...
Besides, if she doesn't stay on my good side, I might have to tell everyone about the hideous date she took to the senior prom. Facts are such stubborn and useful things--especially for big brothers...
...high school sweethearts would take exception. "Statutory rape" is a label applied to any sexual intercourse--consensual or not--with a woman under 18. Any man who had a sexually active relationship at this age is a statutory rapist. (Yes, that includes even magical moonlit nights after the junior prom...
First there are the blond-haired good looks: striking but somehow wholesome, more high school prom queen than Hollywood glamour puss. Then there's the rich, honeyed voice: husky and authoritative, but free of the severe tone affected by some females in TV news. As a reader of the news, she is masterly: businesslike but warm, her eyes now wide with the drama of the day, now crinkling ever so slightly with concern. Diane Sawyer doesn't just deliver the news, she performs...