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...WITHDRAWN. LAKSHMI PANDIT, 22, Miss India-World 2004, from the Miss World beauty pageant, after controversy over her marital status; in Bombay. Pandit said she once claimed to be married to a fellow model to rent an apartment. In 1989 Pandit's sister Kalpana withdrew from the Miss World contest when it was discovered that she was an American citizen...
...Galigo is vastly complicated, a pageant spanning seven generations set to a haunting score by the Indonesian composer Rahayu Supanggah. In Singapore, the show will have lavish sets and costumes constructed from fine Javanese batik. Yet for Wilson, the key to any successful production lies not in its music or props but in the structure of the show, whether it be an opera starring Jessye Norman, an evening of rock theater with Lou Reed?or the staging of an ancient Bugis epic. "Paris is a beautiful city because it has a beautiful structure," he says, explaining that a harmonious overall...
Unfortunately, without Dean, the Democratic primaries are lapsing into a synthetic and unsatisfying beauty pageant. This is mostly John Edwards' fault. If he were really running for President, he would be demanding specificity, and forcing creativity, from John Kerry on Iraq and lots of other issues. He would be taking risks, trying to break the entropy of the campaign. A truly sharp John Edwards might say something like, "John Kerry, the more I look at these Bush deficits, the more I think that you and I should scale back some of these promises we've made. Here's my list...
...happy and satisfied simply have more sex or if it's the sex that makes them happy and satisfied. Whatever the answer, it's clear that human beings would not be fully Homo sapiens--at least not as we've come to understand ourselves--without the great, mysterious, preposterous pageant of our sexuality...
Whether she’s living it up at the Miss America pageant, hobnobbing with media moguls, or picking up makeup tips from drag queens at the Brattle, Irin works her It factor on all who cross her path—even in the dark depths of 14 Plympton St. Her editing marathons are legendary, and not just for the soundtrack of Mideast dance...