Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Miss America competition, to be held in September, will consist of four sections: the evening gown and swimsuit competitions, each worth 15 percent of the overall score, (seerelated story, this page), the12-and-a-half-minute interview, worth 30 percent,and the talent competition, worth 40 percent...
...some nostalgia for the great days. Of Hepburn he says, "She gave the most to fashion because of her beauty and personality." It amuses him that now both young girls and mothers of brides-to-be ask him to create a gown that will make them look like Hepburn. His eye strays to his studio, and it is as if he sees her there, "that marvelous face and those strong little shoulders...
...Kobie Coetsee, then South Africa's Justice Minister. She boldly marched up to the plane's first-class section and engaged the Justice Minister in conversation. The following day Coetsee paid an impromptu, unannounced visit to the world's most famous political prisoner. Mandela, dressed only in his hospital gown, greeted Coetsee not as his jailer-which he technically was-but as if he were a dear old colleague. Coetsee recalls that he saw in Mandela the ancient Roman virtues of "dignitas, gravitas, honestas, simplicitas," and wondered whether white South Africa's Public Enemy No. 1 was in fact...
Imagine Mario Cuomo presiding over the New York State legislature in a ball gown and tiara. Today, such a sight might have ended his political career, if the Republicans hadn't gotten to him first. In fact, Cuomo would just have been following the lead of his predecessor Lord Cornbury, the Colonial governor of New York in 1702. Cornbury, using the excuse that he had to he had to represent Queen Anne as best he could, regularly wore women's clothing to the state's Assembly. His portrait--in which he sports "a gown, stays, tucker, long ruffles...
...Harvard Band emerges from the Freshman Union and takes up formation on one side of the street, just as the real cast, fourteen men in drag--one in a scuba suit, another in an exquisite white wedding gown--pirouette down Mass. Ave. and into the den of reporters. These remarkable beauties are photographed like zoo animals and interviewed sarcastically. The little gymnasts become so excited that they start to jump up and down in tandem, forming a huge black wave on Harvard Street. Two juniors dressed as cows, complete with rubber udders, saunter onto the scene...