Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson swept the doubles slate at the 13-team tournament, as Peter Palandjian and Dave Clark (A-flight), Hank Parichabutr and Mark Leschley (C-flight) and John Steinbaugh and Mino Capasello (D-flight) all triumphed. Leschley, a freshman, also took the C-flight singles crown...
Harvard's duo of Kristen Bland and Robin Boss copped the B-flight doubles crown, but the combo of Kathy Vigna and Martha Berkman placed sixth in A-flight action...
...that controversy: feminists rapping the contest as a meat rack on a runway; Vanessa Williams' 1984 Penthouse revelations; her 1985 successor, Sharlene Wells, getting razzed by some for being squeaky clean to the opposite extreme. And this year, a very unladylike catfight breaks out in the press after the crown goes to Tennessee's Kellye Cash. At last count, Miss Florida, Molly Pesce, had been quoted as calling the new Miss America the "least-liked girl" in the pageant; Miss Ohio, Mary Zilba, had complained about being "robbed" by not making the final ten; and Miss New York, Dawen McPeak...
...upstart from New Orleans, the leggy Cafe Olay (Patty Holley), and is forced to examine her arid life. There is an extended dream sequence on a mythic island, during which Queenie Pie discovers where her heart really lies. At the end, victorious, she magnanimously gives up her crown to go off with Lil Daddy (Larry Marshall), who has been in love with her for years...
...accept you as the second founder of the ancient faith, and -- which is a mark of greater fame -- all the heretics hate you." Indeed, one band of them almost managed to assassinate the troublesome bishop. Augustine's reliance on the state began a millennium of alliances between cross and crown, officially repudiated by Catholicism only...