MacArthur High School - Crest Yearbook (Irving, TX)

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Time Waits For No Man Four hours and countless customers later, Al heads for the football game feeling like yesterday's french fries. The game is half-over when he arrives, but forthe opposing team it was over before it even started. CRemember when our wins could be counted on the toes of Big Arts right foot?J Saturday morning. . .The weather is beautiful enough to make anyone a nature aesthetic, but Al can only admire the day through a small window in a stuffy room because he's coloring dots Cbeing sure to stay between the linesb on his Standardized Aptitude Test data sheet. The ovals on hisanswer sheet remind Al of puka beads, which in turn remind him to stop by Corrigan's to make another payment on the necklace he's buying his girl for her birthday. Liquid silver and tourquoise will probably be out- moded by the time it is paid for. CBurger Circus' pittance doesnt allow for such frills and fadsb The instructor reminds him that he has thirty questions and no time left. . . . coloring dots Qbeing sure to stay between the linesj . .. gallery 19

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xl Back on the Road Again As a rule, beautiful Saturday mornings are followed by glistening Saturday afternoons. Exposure to these hours produces startling remedial effects for brains clogged with term theme outlines and mathematical formulae. After a quick pit stop at home for re-fueling and a change of clothes, Al races to his girlfriends house, marveling at the fact both of them are off work at the same time on a weekend Cand it's not even raininglj. His idea of a celebration is going to The Lake and - ,..rg 51. doing nothing. Qlt's never called Grapevine or Lake Dallas, always The Lake. D Hers is taking in the double feature at the Tiny Screen Tetra Cinema-and doing nothing. Oh, well.. . matinees are half-price, anyway. Saturday evening is unwinding time, soccer time, concert time, bake sale time. Even if Al acquires a split personality, attending each function is still an impossibility. Blowing it all off, he decides to do something completely unique-sleep. Sundays are for church and lying around reading the comics. That is, until one recalls the meaning ofthat dreaded obscenity: HOMEWORK. Al finishes his assignments at the stroke of ten, just in time for his weekly dose of Monty Pythons Flying Circus. Pythonery is like an addiction, and the show is a main topic of preetardy bell conversation. Standing in the threshold of a new week, Al looks forward, bleary-eyed, to five days of recuperation in his student slot. He finds his status as he left it Friday afternoon, dusts it off, and slips it on, patiently awaitingthe continuation of the Student Life cycle. Standing in the threshold ofa new week . gallery 21