In the movie, events take place against Veronica's 10-year reunion, which provides a believable explanation for the rotating door of high school-era regulars.
But the recent rise to prominence of several actors recognized by regional theaters for their high school-era performances is lending regional theaters credibility.
In the episode, Marge revives her high school-era interest in painting by enrolling in an art class after getting encouraged by Lisa.
Because unstructured activity time of the "Come over and hang out" variety remains semi-foreign to me (I grew up in a big house all alone and not lonely with my Little Women and Secret Garden and The Little Princess and and and and), even after a high-school era where my house was the party house with the makeout couch, you know?
During the lunch period I would often feel his eyes on me as he stood on the ramp that connected the auditorium to the ground floor of the 1970's era high school.
The 1980's are suddenly so compelling that two different shows, one on WB and another on ABC, have heroes who travel back in time to their Reagan-era high school years.
Here, the look is all, from the quiffs to the imported American threads – inscribed bowling shirts, brothel creepers, neckerchiefs, woollen high school baseball jackets, 50s-era herringbone tweed coats.
And Phillips, using jagged pen-and-ink work and a shadowy palette in the book's grimy '80s sequences, devises a neat trick: drawing '60s-era high school flashbacks in a style close enough to the broad, bright-hued slapstick of old "Archie" comics to get the point across.
Misadventures in high school theater; a college-era cable-access show with Seth Meyers of "Saturday Night Live"; a stint in hard-core gay porn films; stereotyped roles in television commercials; and being a contestant on "Cash Cab" are described amid a stream of blustery, often amusing one-liners.
For the longest time, that's what the memory of my high school years felt like: an era belonging not to me, but to my "normal" classmates.
Since we were all the same age and the two of them met in high school, we talked about that era.
