Word: pageant
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George W. Bush surprised more than a few pundits Sunday night by making what amounted to a 19-day-old acceptance speech after Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris certified his 537-vote victory in Florida. But look at his choices in this post-election Mr. President pageant: spend the next five days as a lowly candidate or make them work for you as a putative president-elect, intent on beginning the delicate work of reuniting a divided nation...
...shouldn't be an impossible sell. Few of this pageant's judges - the wide and semi-passionate center of the electorate - believe that either Gore or Bush is trying to "steal" the election. Most are sympathetic to the idea of manual recounts, and those who followed the story over Thanksgiving weekend probably have some sense that the manual recount in Palm Beach, at least, did not get a fair shake. (Certainly a smirking Katherine Harris did Bush no p.r. favors by getting needlessly stingy with a legally flexible 5 p.m. deadline...
...pageant b) An exploitative meat market c) A dating pool for second-rate baseball players d) A fast track to infomercials...
...heavy-metal band on the treadmill to oblivion, which is presently enjoying a welcome re-release and a new DVD version. He is also the force behind Waiting for Guffman, in which he plays Corky St. Clair, a small-town hairdresser who deludes himself into believing that the historical pageant he has directed may be Broadway bound...
...sabotaging her competitors. After a particularly vicious episode in which she glued her rival JoJo's hand to a burning baton, Mona is disqualified from competing in the county. Most unfortunately for her, she also discovers that she's pregnant, therefore disqualifying her from competing in any beauty pageant. Ruby, being the sweet, kind-hearted thing she is, adopts the baby Vanessa (the Pepsi girl Hallie Kate Eisenberg), allowing Mona to continue her trek to gloriously oh-so-wonderful beauty stardom...