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This wrought-up lad moves on to higher, wider-ranging transgressions-from biting an usherette on the leg to raping and killing "little Suzie," his date at the junior prom. Yet each exploit is explained and excused by the same hard-rocking ironic chorus: "Well, he's just an excitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tales from the Neon Netherworld | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...home territory, exploring the dead ends and defeats of middle-class life in a song like Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, a melancholy, hard-driving chronicle of the battered future of high school sweethearts Brenda and Eddie, "the popular steadies/ And the king and the queen/ of the prom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...always wanted to put on a big show," Brett R. Johnson '81 said yesterday. Johnson's only previous experience as a promoter consisted of renting a boat for his senior prom cruise on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. "When I got to Harvard, I realized that this was the place to do it," he said...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Union Party | 10/18/1977 | See Source »

...Algonquin Round Table, a reading of works from Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker (who is famous for quips like 'If all the girls at the Yale prom were laid end-to-end, I for one wouldn't be a bit surprised.') and other members of this 1920s circle of literati opens Friday at the Tickets...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Stage | 7/8/1977 | See Source »

...creating a momentary sensation, he explains: "I wanted to have some fun for once. Everywhere we stopped, people freaked out." McNeff has arranged to keep the limousine, at a cost of $25 an hour, to carry him and his friends to a nearby motel for several hours of post-prom partying. All told, McNeff figures the evening will cost him $450, much of it saved from a job that he took with United Parcel just to pay for the occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Taking a Last, Gaudy Fling | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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