Word: pageant
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...Nigerian debut of the Miss World beauty pageant was already on its way to becoming the Nigerian nightmare when an inflammatory editorial was published last week in a Nigerian paper. Its suggestion that the Prophet Muhammad would have married a Miss World contestant had he seen the contest did not help to ease the tensions swirling around the controversial pageant. Of course no one knew that it would lead to three days of religious rioting and more than 100 deaths, but this result cannot be too surprising...
...committed to imposing the contest on Nigeria in the first place. Of all the times and places to hold the Miss World competition, Nigeria during Ramadan must be the worst combination. With a recent history of religious violence, Nigeria is an odd country to host the Miss World pageant. Its large and influential Islamic population, much of which lives under Islamic Law, considers the public exhibition of women to be an obscenity. But despite the offensive and insulting effects of the pageant, the Miss World organizers were set on holding it in Nigeria because it fit their agenda...
...they are moribund. The dying wasps were too obvious a reflection on mortality, as obscene as the contorted bodies in a painting by Hieronymous Bosch. I didn’t turn back; instead, frightened into solemnity, I walked on with the self-conscious gravity of a miscast Christmas pageant Madonna. And after a while, climbing the ridges and looking into the effaced faces of all those grieving angels, I thought: Death is not so fearsome, after all; I have been inured to it. I am changed...
...embassy bombings. Says one: "Clearly this is an opportunity to fill in some of the blanks." - By Johanna McGeary. Reported by Elaine Shannon/ Washington NIGERIA beauty and the beasts Riots and killings spread across northern Nigeria last week in the run-up to Miss World 2002. The Dec. 7 pageant, which was moved from Abuja to London because of the unrest, had already attracted controversy because of a Nigerian Islamic court's recent decision to sentence an unmarried mother to death by stoning for adultery. Nigerian Muslims called the contest indecent and said it promoted promiscuity. When an article...
Sonsie is not for wan women or frail society ladies of delicate constitutions. This is a frantic nest of raucousness, but also a colorful pageant of the elegant and the dodgy, offering a dining experience which demands that you contend with outlandish decor, menu exotica and a congested and tortuous layout...