Word: pageant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vanessa Williams steps down, and the pageant lurches...
...last chapter, reigning Miss America Vanessa Williams, a spirited 21 and going for the glory, got caught in some compromising positions. Ten of them, to be exact, to be published in Penthouse, a skin magazine with the luster of a no-wax floor. Officials of the Miss America Pageant, aghast, asked for her resignation. Williams said she would think about it over the weekend...
...words "There she is, Miss America" may never be the same. Nor the punctiliously proper pageant itself, for that matter. Vanessa Williams, 21, electrified the contest and exhilarated many black women last September when she became the first of her race to win the title. Last week she became the first Miss America to be asked to resign. The request came after a meeting of the pageant board, hastily called in response to an announcement by Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, 53, that Williams will be featured in nude, extremely explicit love scenes with another woman on ten pages...
...self-definition. They represent a party that is an alliance of many fractious tribes-"from Yuppie to lunch pail," as Mondale said in San Francisco. The ideas and interests of, say, white steelworkers coexist rather sullenly, if at all, with those of blacks, or of feminists. In the pageant of unity last week, one speaker after another recited a Whitmanesque litany of races and classes and minorities and interests and occupations-or unemployments. Some speakers, in fact, made the nation sound like an immense ingathering of victims-terrorized senior citizens, forsaken minorities, Dickensian children-warmed by the party...
Greetings Dearest Mother, I hope you have not been believing all those nasty reports about the capitalist beauty pageant here in Miami. Of course, the messy dish they call "tacos" does not compare with your kielbasa, but I can't believe that is why some of the girls got sick and had to go to the hospital. And I must admit that poor Miss Sri Lanka left early; she was so homesick. I missed Poland too, but oh how I wish you could have seen the wonderfully decadent Western luxuries bestowed on the new Miss Universe, a sweet...