Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year when women are trying valiantly to assert themselves as intelligent leaders of society, political thinkers, educational reformers, etc., I find it disheartening to discover once more a TIME cover depicting the beautifully brainless. Why don't you put Miss America on your next cover and install Bert Parks on your board of directors? Okeydoke, artichoke...
There is always a place for beauty, and America can use it now more than ever. I sometimes hear criticisms that the contestants at the Miss America Pageant are beautiful only on the surface, but I don't accept that. Besides, seeing beautiful girls in a kind of Cinderella setting is something we can and should enjoy without having to ask if it proves anything. We are trying to prove ourselves to death...
...poor relations, recites poetry, inaccurately and inappropriately, trying to turn the head of every young lady around. There is an officious and hypochondriacal set of Parker relatives; there is the beautiful and aloof Clara Brereton: there is the morose and mysterious young man. There are the requisite and indistinguishable Miss Beauforts, "just such young ladies as may be met with in at least one family out of three throughout the kingdom" interested only in captivating a man with a fortune...
What is it worth to have lunch with New York's Jacob Javits in the Senate Dining Room? $325. To spend an evening with Summer Bartholomew, Miss U.S.A.? $1,000. To be able to jog around in a beat-up pair of sneakers once owned by Basketball Star Julius Erving? $201. These and other market values were set at what one TV critic described as "an upper-middle-class version of Let's Make a Deal," a nine-day fund-raising auction held onscreen by New York's public television station WNET. While some 500 celebrities acted...
Offstage, she is a piquant rag doll with huge blue eyes fringed with black lashes. Her face reflects the determination to survive in a profession that allows no respite: "If I miss one day of dancing, I can feel it." At age 15, after she had entered George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, Gelsey developed tendinitis. By the time Mr. B. selected her to dance in Firebird two years later, dancing had become unbearably painful. "I had forced a great deal." She almost gave up. Instead, in an effort comparable to Rubinstein's retraining himself...