Word: proms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girlfriend Raina Hedglin: "I don't know anyone who could influence him." At his funeral, friends and family buried a large jar of Jif peanut butter and a pack of instant pudding with him; they were his favorite foods. Hedglin dropped in a napkin she had saved from their prom...
...mundane details. Quoting extensively from O'Hara's letters, journals and an unpublished novel, Gooch recounts in painstaking detail the poet's placid early years and his startingly unconfrontational outlook. In those years, the poet conformed at least externally to American middle class expectations, escorting girl-friends to prom, enlisting for service in World War II, writing home affectionate letters filled with responsible advice for his younger siblings. Although filled with vague bohemian aspirations and troubled by his homosexuality, O'Hara showed little indication that he would become the master of a sophisticated, eclectic poetic style, a sympathizer with radical...
...called upon to ask for applause for Madonna, whose cross-gender opening number, straight out of Berlin 1929, set a mix-and-match postmodern tone for the performances. Lenny Kravitz and Soul Asylum did their respective versions of the early '70s. Sharon Stone, perfectly pretty in her pink '50s prom dress, was Barbie, live. (In postshow remarks, she volunteered an answer to the question everybody wants to ask Sharon Stone: "Did you fish and hunt with your dad growing up in Pennsylvania?" She did.) U2's the Edge, with a channel-surfing video wall and Deep Space Nine outfit...
...Prom Night last week, senior class officers at Benicia High School in California assembled some party favors -- a gift-wrapped condom, a Planned Parenthood pamphlet advocating abstinence and a piece of candy. "We know Prom Night is a big night for a lot of people, sexually," senior Lisa Puryear told the San Jose Mercury News. "We were trying to spread a little responsible behavior." But administrators confiscated the 375 condoms, arguing that the school-sponsored event is no place for sex education...
Apparently, everyone in the Class of 1994 was from Long Island, New York. Apparently, they all knew each other. Apparently, every other high school in the nation had their proms in May. "When's yours?" people would ask the Nebraska native. "Tonight," I'd answer. (That's right. I skipped prom my senior year to go to pre-frosh weekend at Harvard. So what...