(ah, "Lathe of Heaven"--I trust you refer to the novel or the very decent PBS dranatization of 1979, and not the abomination broadcast on cable last year)
We have a 20 year-old nephew staying with us as he attends school--a strongly suburban sensibility (born, raised and seldom out of Oxnard CA before) who hasn't outgrown his "goth" phase yet. He and a friend attended a party Saturday night thrown by the Bushler's Youth: reports that he and friend felt "out of place" although not unwelcome; that the males of approximately his age were wearing suits and that the females wore "sensible shoes" and were on the plain side (he said "think of a young Janet Reno") with the exception of one sweet young thing who was "keg dancing," a rite apparently involving standing on one's head while sucking from the outlet of a beer keg (one of the Bush twins, perhaps?). He had the impression that she was to be raffled off at the end of the evening...
cordially,