Word: preps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sauna in Together? and one in an airplane lavatory in Rich and Famous. The writers of Class, to be released next year, have provided her with yet another kinky roost: an elevator. Playing a philandering wife who prowls Chicago's singles bars, Bisset takes up with a virginal prep-school student, then whisks him off for a tryst. This is where the elevator comes in. Not the most transporting of conveyances, but it beats an escalator...
...entry in the 1954 Phillips Academy yearbook did not inspire confidence. No college destination, no extracurricular activities and no nickname (the crudest of blows at a Northeastern prep school). In fact his sole distinction as a senior was being voted "most cynical." Still lacking a nickname, Contemporary Artist Frank Stella, 46, returned to the school at Andover, Mass., where he first got a taste for art. The occasion was the opening of an exhibition of his and other artists' work at the Addison Gallery of American Art, the only full-scale museum in the country run by a secondary...
...competition is only a step or two away from the Alpo factory. But "the Boston horse," as he became known around the peak of that first season, continued to win races beyond the Hub. By the time he had won the Flamingo Stakes and the Florida Derby--two key prep races for the Kentucky Derby--he was being touted as the next Triple Crown horse. And not unreasonably so. In the parading he exhibited a rare kind of self-assurance, and out on the track he proved he had talent, leaving great gaps of home stretch between himself...
...precisely what the SAT measures. If the exam is a pure test of general intellectual aptitude, as the College Board contends, then no special acquired knowledge should help raise scores. Yet in recent years students across the country have been paying hundreds of dollars to take special SAT prep courses. Acting on the evidence that students can study their way to higher scores, the National Association of Secondary School Principals announced this fall that it would publish SAT teaching materials in an effort to make the advantage available to all public school students. Could these cram courses be responsible...
...trend-setters, they smoke British cigarettes and seduce proctors. They are not older in years, merely more weary of the world and more prone to peasant skirts, husky laughs, and hoop earings. The never join the trend setters for mid-Yard tanning sessions, and they call their prep school boy friends "lovers...