Word: proms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...American cast, it seemed as ill- fated as its characters: an awkward teenage girl, her religiously obsessed mother and a high school full of taunting girls and boys who come to grief when the target of their mockery demonstrates supernatural powers of destruction in a crowded gym on prom night. Carrie was blasted by London critics when it opened a four-week run in February at the R.S.C.'s home in Stratford-upon-Avon. The show was rewritten almost nightly; special effects misfired disastrously; one of the two leads quit. Problems continued when it moved to New York City...
...grandly call themselves the Oil City Symphony have come together for a reunion concert. There is Mark the pianist and accordionist, a geek with glasses in a white dinner jacket and purple slacks who is also the minister of music at his church; Debbie the drummer, an ex- prom queen in a strapless gown who exchanges one pink pump for a running shoe, the better to thump her bass drum; Mary the violinist, of stern Scandinavian stock, uptight, humorless and "best remembered locally for her performance as Anita in West Side Story"; and Mike the gentle, wistful synthesizer player...