Ralph Poteet High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Mesquite, TX)

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: Music }»««»»«« Video As the music comes to life on stations such as MTV, the increasing popularity of music videos has influenced daily life and brought new subjects to view MTV has previewed new talent on Now hear This! while V-Ml plays older tunes. For many teenagers, to come home and turn on the cable channels MTVand V-Ml is a daily maQic ritual Daily life is also infected by video com- mercials George Michael ' s vid- eo clips are shown on Diet Pepsi commercials and Pepsi also pre- viewed Madonna ' s con- troversial LiKe a Prayer video. Music videos and the stations that play items will continue to prosper from all the attention Musical ec ect ca helping a new era of music come in are the New Bohemians and their lead singer Edie Brickell They have gone from the artistic area. Deep Ellum of Dallas to nationwide stardom. With their upbeat tunes such as What I Am and the jazz of Circle they have set impressions for new music. Their unique melodies are featured on their re- cently released album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars. Also setting impres- sions in music are Ton Loc and Wild Thing. Milli Vanilli, Quns and f oses and The New Kids on the Block are also moving in and up on the charts The higher notes Singing One Monnent in Time, Whitney Mouston opened up the thirty-first annual Grammy Awards held on Feb. 22 (shown on Channel 4 at 7 p.m. locally). Billy Crystal announced the winners of over 76 cat- egories on the Shrine Auditorium stage in Los Angeles, California. Voting members of the national Acad- emy of f ecording Arts and Sciences chose nominees from a record of 6,800 entries released between Oct. 1, 1987, and Sept. 50, 1988. Because of the recent criticism that certain areas of popular music have been ignored, new categories this year in- cluded hard rock heavy metal, rap and bluegrass. A partial list of the winners follows: Record of the Year Album of the Year Song of the Year Best new Artist Best Female Pop Vocal Tracy Chapman Don ' t Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin Faith Qeorge Michael Don ' t Worry, Be happy Bobby McFerrin Tracy Chapman fast Car Best Male Pop Vocal Best Group Pop Vocal Don ' t Worry, Be happy Bobby McFerrin Brasil Manhattan Transfer Best Male Rock Vocal Fore jer Young Rod Stewart Best Group RocK Vocal Desire U2 (jiving You the Best That 1 Got Best Female R B Vocal Anita Baker Best Duo Love Overboard R B Vocal Best Rap Gladys knight and the Pips Parents Just Don ' t Understand Best hard Rock Metal Vocal DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince Crest of a hinave Jethro Tull

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The 6l5t annual cadenny ward winners At the sixty-first annu- al Academy Awards, the movie that many holly- wood critics dismissed as unfilmable left with four major Oscars in- cluding Best Picture (producer Mark John- son), Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Best Director (Barry Levin- son) and Best Original Screenplay (Ronald Bass and Barry Mor- row) The movie? Fiainman F{ainman , Who Framed F{oger Fiabbit? and Dangerous Liaisons were box office hits, bringing in a combined $44 billion Dangerous Liaisons won Best Adapted Screenplay (Christopher Hampton), Best Art Direction (5tuart Craig and Qerald James) and Best Cos- tume Design (James Acheson) Who Framed Roger Fiabbit? came out with Best Film Editing (Arthur Schmidt), Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Ef- fects. Best Actress went to Jodie Foster for her role in The Accused Kevin Kline received Best Supporting Actor for A Fish Called Wanda, and Qeena Davis captured Best Supporting Ac- tress for The Accidental Tourist In the music catego- ry. Best Original Song went to Carly 5imon for Let the f iver Run in the movie Working Qirl. Best Music, Original Score went to Dave Qrusin for The Milagro Beanfield War. Bird came away with the Best Sound Oscar Felle the Conqueror made in Denmark won Best Foreign Film. Pe- ter Biziou received Best Cinematography for Mississippi Burning. Best Makeup went to Ve Meill, 5teve LaPorte and Robert Short for their work in Beet- lejuice. Best Action Short Film was The Ap- pointment of Dennis Jennings (Dean Parisot and Steven Wright) Best Animated 5hort Film went to Tin Toy di- rected by Jon Laseter Marcel Ophuyls re- ceived Best Documen- tary Feature for hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of hiaus Barbie. The Documentary Short Subject Vou Don ' t t1a je to Die won an Oscar for William Quttentag and Malcolm Clarke gpjgggBJlLP WA — Your turn From Mintendo Video games to the board games of Monopoly and Scrabble, the oldest form of entertainment has been games As far back as recorded histo- ry, the pastime has taught skill, encouraged competition, and served as a source of amusement TV game shows, such as Win, Lose o r Draw and Family Feud, have evolved into board games So as time goes on, so will the popularity games. Something to talH about From Donahue to Late tiight with David Letterman, talk shows have become a main- stay of American television Just lihe comedian Arseneol hall and game show host Pat 5ajaK, virtually all of holly- wood ' s fast track were climb- ing aboard the Interview band- wagon These shows ranged from a relatively calm Oprah Winfrey to the loudmouth Morton Downey, Jr Fights be- tween guests and audience were a common event on Mor- ton DoMney and (jeraldo, but seemed to maKe ratings of trash TV far pass the clas- sic hits such as The Tontgtit 5how with Johnny Carson

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Anchor linesHCOH Layouts, copy counting, head- lines, all to be met by the D word: DEADLINE I swear that I had night- lares about whether the book ould ever be finished on time. I ' ll admit that I was unsure about the staff in the beginning, but since we were all MERE TO 5TAY they proved that they are truly wonderful people and they occasionally even turned a spread in on time (just joking, guys!). From Cathy L ' 5 hyperactivity to Dennis ' sarcasm to Ericka ' s crazy stories and Jenny D ' s laughter, everyone contributed their little bit of personality to make each day somewhat of an interesting adventure. My pal and right arm Jennifer Qunn was assigned the job of two people, but did the work of four. 5he spent so much time in the darkroom that her eyes stayed dilated most of the year TREASUf E CI1E5T STAFF Editor-in-Chief Janet Brooks Business Manager Photography Editor Jennifer Qunn Advertising Manager Student Life Editor Cathy Laughlin 5amia Siddiqui Organizations Editor Ericka Wells Cathy Deboo Academics Editor Jenny Downs People Editors Misty Ashley Rod Washington Sports Editor Dennis Fudge Carrie Robinson Adviser Marianne Darley and she reeked of those horrible smelling chemicals she was always playing in. nevertheless, I appre- ciate her! Although Ms. D and I saw things a little differently now and then, we were able to pull our ideas togeth- er along with the staff to produce what I hope will be a fantastic year- book. I would like to thank the student body, the faculty and the admin- istration for answering surveys, cooperating with pictures and sup- porting us, to Ray Westbrook, our Taylor rep, who was always there to help push us through the dead- lines and my family for putting up with me typing at 2 a.m. And then to Chris Draganski and Micheal Carrizales (refugees from the ' 88 book) and Jennifer Qunn for their help with the cover names and their input of ideas (two thumbs up for that one, guys!) I hope the new graphics and added features (the mini-mag and larger group pictures) make the book as worthwhile to you as the work that went into it.