East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Signs of fashions and fads, movies and music hit East Oh my God, like gag me with a spoon and Bag those toe nails, sang Moon Unit Zappa in the song, Valley Girls, which hit the top 10 charts this past year. The Valley Girls ' talk is just one of the many fads we had at East High in 1982-3. Another was along the lines of fashion. Preppy and Punk: does that ring a bell? Well, it should. At the beginning of the school year, the school went prep. Button-down ox- ford-cloth shirts, khaki pants, deck shoes, penny loafers (with no socks, of course) and bright colored wool sweaters. These were all a part of the preppy epidemic. But prep has always been around, so it ' s really not that new. Said Tom Mentzer, senior: I think of prep as a way of presenting your- self, not as a fad, because prep has always been around. It ' s nothing new. It ' s just more popular now. Junior Julie Keller commented that prep is the ultimate in casual. Another fashion craze at East was the New Wave or Punk look. This included mini skirts, tights, leg UPPER LEFT: Senior Rod Grafton gets ready to sit down and relax to the good rock beat of AC DC. CENTER: Becky Zallek models the style of clothing known as Punk. RIGHT: E.T. phone home, calls this lovable creature from a distant planet. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial was the number one hit of the year, by Steven Spielberg. 14 FADS, FASHIONS

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warmers and anything leather for girls. For the guys, it was long suit- coats, narrow ties with pants and ten- nis shoes. Basically it was anything out of the ordinary, even a little bizarre. Hair was cut very short in front and left long in back. Whereas prep was something we were all used to, Punk was the invention of the eighties. Movies were also a big thing, espe- cially a movie called, E.T.: TheExtra- Terrestrial. This fun, heart-warming fantasy touched the hearts of eve- ryone who saw it. While it grossed over $240 million, another Spielberg hit, Poltergeist, was busy amazing everyone with its special effects. Other movies that were hits were Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Friday the 13th-3 D, Crease 2 and the second biggest money maker with $111 million dollars, Rocky III. Music took somewhat of a turn this past year. New Wave music became more popular but it still couldn ' t beat out good oP rock-n-roll. Rock groups like Rush, Who and Rick Spring- field made their audiences come alive with the music. MOVIES, MUSIC 15