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...with dinner at a chic restaurant and end with a stylish breakfast at dawn. The revelers are not the bored and idle rich of the land, although tabs run high. The partygoers are high school students who are reviving-and revising-that grand and time-honored institution, the senior prom...
...Generation. Ignored or mocked during the rebellious 1960s, the senior prom has returned to fashion, partly because of nostalgia, partly because of precocious hedonism and the delights of conspicuous consumption. Not since the 1950s has the prom phenomenon been so "in." The proms seem to reflect the mood of a depoliticized generation that is simply interested in having some fun. Yet today's promgoers are not just reliving the 1950s in the spirit of Grease, the long-running rock musical that recalls the period with such sardonic songs as It's Raining on Prom Night and Alone...
This spring's prom-trotters are crowding into fancy nightclubs like the Chateau de Ville in Framingham, Mass., where as many as four dances may be going on in one evening, and the management hopes that the girls will come back some day for their weddings. Around Long Beach, Calif., one of the most popular prom spots is aboard the Queen Mary, now serving as a floating hostelry in her genteel retirement. The ballrooms of the onetime grande dame of the North Atlantic are crowded with ten or so dances a week, and the demand is so high, says...
...Carrie. Prom showers. At the Harvard Square Theater, Friday and Saturday at 3:25 and #;40. With Rosemary's Baby, still still-born...
CARRIE. The banal and the supernatural frighteningly, yet touchingly, juxtaposed in Director Brian De Palma's tale of how the high school prom went all wrong. Sissy Spacek is spooky as the strangely gifted heroine...