Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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Baggy jeans were a new style that surprisingly infringed on the popularity of straight-legged jeans. Debie Bo-den pauses near the Coke machines while sporting a pair of the jeans. Something old, Something new The Fashion Picture Mini-skirts and bell bottoms gave way to hemlines below the knees and tapered legged jeans. The towering heels of the forties came back along with the penny loafers and saddle oxfords of the fifties. Ponytails shifted to the side, and masses of tiny ringlets adorned the heads of males and females alike. It used to be said that the South was about five years behind the rest of the world in fashions — but no more. Teenagers eagerly snapped up straight-legged jeans, baggy pants, j double-wrap belts and spike heels. A new style of dancing, disco, called for a new kind of clothes. Decked out in the latest fashions from head to toe are Jamie Porter and Sonia Howard. Mid-calf boots and spike-heel shoes were big fashion items, especially when paired with tucked in pants or peg-leg jeans. Practicality as well as fashion influenced many new hair styles. Dena Floyd finds it easier to study when wearing a side braid. This way, she isn't bothered by her bangs. 16 Student Life

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always close at hand. Some used the weekend to catch up on homework that had piled up from the previous week. Still others used the day for shopping and visiting. As the prices of gasoline, movies, and dinner continued to rise, allowances did not seem to go as far as they used to. It was often necessary to get a Saturday job just to support the evening's activities. Admittedly, there were some weekends that were somewhat less than exciting. For those weekends, a special activity was reserved. It was known as sleeping late. This was preferably done in a warm bed, beginning at almost any hour, and continuing till at least ten a.m. For those in school, this comfort was denied during the week. However, thanks to weekends, sleeping late was a luxury that would never be totally inaccessible. Senior Kerry Smith and his fiancee, Lisa Cay Jamison, often spend their weekends together. They are shown here having lunch on a cold February day. Long-time daters Sandy Baker and Tommy Parks find time for a bit of togetherness while awaiting the start of band rehearsal. Student Lite IS

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By 1980, music experts were predicting that disco would soon go the way of the Susan B. Anthony coin and the $2 bill. Roller disco hung on long enough to inspire the movie “Roller Boogie and the remodeling of the local skating rink. Disco was also a huge factor in the popularity of such movies as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, and The Wiz. There were even more horror films than disco-oriented films; producers turned out horror flicks as if by assembly line and movie geers apparently loved it. The Exorcist, Omen I and II, The Amityville Horror, and The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, like most other horror films of the 70's, dealt with the supernatural, as compared to the monster movies of earlier decades. One of the 70's stranger fads was 1979's The Rocky Horror Picture Show which showed nightly at midnight in the theaters of some larger cities. The movie's popularity was based largely on ritualistic audience participation with moviegoers. Some dressed as the movie characters and did whatever the actors on the silver screen were doing: dancing to The Time Warp, throwing toast, rice, water, etc. Beginning with the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran by Iranian terrorists in November, it became very popular for Americans to dislike and criticize the Ayatollah Khomeini. The months-long captivity, which had not ended by June 1980, sparked fads such as Ayatollah Khomeiniac dartboards. Ayatollah toilet tissue, slogans such as Let's Put a Hole-ah in the Ayatollah, and a cartoon take-off on the movie The Jerk, starring Khomeini in the title role of The Jerk and a Half. The use of slang was not so popular in the late 70's as it had been earlier in the decade. In the later 70's, usage of Can you dig it?, Check it out, and slanguage had all but died out. Only an occasional fox, hunk, It's the pits, That's the breaks, nerd, dork, and semi- anything were much in use. Whether the style was an idea left over or revived from an earlier decade or unique entirely of the 70's, fads had a. definite impact on the 70's lifestyle. During activity period on a cold winter day, Lee Boozer and Andy Lyons engage in a friendly backgammon game. Suzan Pile checks Lee's reaction to his roll of dice as Sandy Garner watches idly. Andy shakes her cup in preparation for her throw. For about a month, backgammon was the hottest fad on campus. Pick-up games could be found in most every nook and cranny of the courtyard at activity period among experts and beginners alike. Student Life 17