Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nothing like a beauty contest to get some national soul searching going. When two judges were suspended from the Miss Italy jury for saying DENNY MENDEZ, a Caribbean immigrant, could not represent Italian beauty, interest in the pageant got hotter than a curling iron. One judge, TV personality Alba Parietti, argued that "a black woman does not correspond to the canons of Italian beauty." Neither the jury nor the voting public agreed, and Mendez, who has been an Italian citizen for four years, won the crown. "I know I don't represent Italian beauty, but they elected me," she said...
Turner took runner-up in that first pageant and afterwards ran into a woman who said she had potential. She received pointers over the telephone from this woman, Turner says, which ultimately helped her take first place at her next local pageant...
...Then I went to the [Massachusetts] state pageant and ended up winning," Turner says. "I was pretty shocked. I was a pageant novice, and all I had to go on was what this woman had discussed with...
Miss America Pageant...
Before her two-week stay at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, Turner and the 49 other state winners spent four days vacationing in Orlando, Fla., the home of Walt Disney World...