Word: prom
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Frentz is not negative by nature. Six years ago, she was queen of the prom, valedictorian and the student voted most likely to succeed at Wakulla County High School outside Tallahassee, Fla. At the University of Florida, she signed up for ROTC and discovered she enjoyed the regimen of the military. She joined the Air Force after graduation...
Beavers accentuated the different themes of his songs with a sequinned prom vest and a cowboy hat. Barkett strutted in fishnets and stilettos as she sang her first song, “I Love Rock and Roll...
...Harkin, a Democrat, to let the Federal Government develop nutrition guidelines for vending-machine food was scuttled by both parties. No other state has a food ban as strict as the one in Texas. Even Mom's home-baked goodies, sold to benefit the school art program or the prom, can't be eaten during school hours...
...need any distractions. But they've got one: a rumor going around school that they are gay. The kids spreading it have plenty of their own issues to deal with, like the girl trying to live down her reputation as the school slut, and the clique-leading prom queen whose boyfriend is cheating on her. It sounds like the stuff of a TV after-school special, except for two things. They don't have after-school specials anymore. And this is part of a play, Laurie Brooks' Wrestling Season, so energetically stylized that it defuses any hint of preachiness...
...young people has long been more audacious (and, not coincidentally, better funded) than in the U.S. "Young audiences are more associative, nonlinear. They're willing to go on the journey." Brosius' company has staged an interactive, site-specific production of Antigone and, last spring, an evocative performance piece called Prom, in which students and teachers re-enact the anxiety- ridden rite of passage known as the high school prom. In Minneapolis, they don't even play the old fairy tales straight: in this fall's dark adaptation of Hansel and Gretel, two children are left in the woods...