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...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...
...went around scolding fellow students for not putting milk cartons into the trash bin. His yearbook calls him "Chief Big Brain-in- Face." He did not have his first date until the second half of his senior year. Sandy Cohen, the girl he wanted to take to his senior prom, went with one of his rivals, so he checked coats instead...
When Al Krusac, 72, missed his senior prom in 1936 because he had joined the Army, his high school sweetheart Clara Curtis had to go with a cousin. Last week Al finally got to take Clara, his wife of 50 years, to his first prom. Not only that, Al and Clara were selected king and queen of the West Bloomfield, Mich., senior prom. Said Clara: "This prom was much better because I was with the man I loved. My cousin was stuck on somebody else, and all night long he kept waltzing...
...notion of inviting senior citizens to a high school-style prom originated with three students, Jennifer Dell, Nancy Becker and Lori Freeman. About 90 people between 50 and 91 years old, most of whom had missed their own proms because they were in the armed forces, cut a rug to the music of Michael Jackson as well as Benny Goodman. Seventy-five West Bloomfield students volunteered as dates for seniors who had none. Said Dell: "One little man I thought would never stop dancing...