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In my own prep-school period my friends and I wrote this parody of our high school.
Rebecca Serle: Mostly Good Girls: A Look Behind Prep-School Perfection Rebecca Serle 2010
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Just out of curiosity, was this a elite prep-school kind of school?
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Perhaps due to its location on a leafy prep-school campus in a small town, it is less of a destination than Mr. Kahn's other American masterpieces: the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif.; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; the Yale Art Gallery; and the Yale Center for British Art.
A Monument to the Life of the Mind Charles S. Dameron 2011
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In my own prep-school period my friends and I wrote this parody of our high school.
Rebecca Serle: Mostly Good Girls: A Look Behind Prep-School Perfection Rebecca Serle 2010
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NBC's lineup concludes with a special Thursday airing of Friday sleeper Grimm 10/9c, evoking memories of Buffy in its storyline of a prep-school outcast who's implicated in the death of a teacher.
Guide to Thursday TV: An Ode to Community, Person Gets Interest-ing, and More! 2011
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In this prep-school coming-of-age tale, the hero, a bright stoner whom neither parent seems to actually notice, learns that, in fact, most adults have feet of clay, in disappointing ways.
Marshall Fine: Live from Sundance Film Festival: Wednesday, Jan. 25 Marshall Fine 2012
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In this prep-school coming-of-age tale, the hero, a bright stoner whom neither parent seems to actually notice, learns that, in fact, most adults have feet of clay, in disappointing ways.
Marshall Fine: Live from Sundance Film Festival: Wednesday, Jan. 25 Marshall Fine 2012
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Some of us in the office, though, have been aware of Nikki's work since prep-school days, and one of us is even the proud owner of an early rare work, Sent Out On The Tracks They Built: Sinophobia in Olympia, 1886, which she collaborated on with Sarah Dougher in a more rocking incarnation.
Previews 2009
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In this prep-school coming-of-age tale, the hero, a bright stoner whom neither parent seems to actually notice, learns that, in fact, most adults have feet of clay, in disappointing ways.
Marshall Fine: Live from Sundance Film Festival: Wednesday, Jan. 25 Marshall Fine 2012
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But Prince Charles loathed the usual team games; and when obviously captain of his prep-school football side at Cheam in his final year, their season's record was P10, W0, L10, For 4, Against 82, and the school magazine, the Cheam Chronicle, chided: "At centre-half and captain Prince Charles seldom drove himself as hard as his ability or position obviously demanded."
Royalty has finally become wedded to the national sporting obsession | Frank Keating 2011
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