Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about some discussion of the anorexia the baby gymnasts obviously suffer from--or the fact that the females are mostly teenagers while the male gymnasts are in their mid-20s? Resist overcovering women's beach volleyball, which is no better than the swimsuit competition at the Miss America pageant. And don't labor to make heroes of the nonheroic. Airbrushing swimmer Gary Hall Jr., the spoiled grandson of savings and loan cheat Charles Keating Jr., by not mentioning that he was a major goof-off, blowing up mailboxes and tearing up golf courses, is formulaic hagiography. And after...
Boxing is never a beauty pageant, but the sport turned acutely ugly last week in Madison Square Garden when Riddick Bowe's heavyweight bout became an audience-participation slugfest. Bowe was clearly losing to underdog Andrew Golota when Golota punched him below the belt for the fourth time. Bowe hit the canvas, and the referee disqualified Golota. But Bowe's supporters, including promoter Rock Newman, stormed the ring, one of them smashing Golota over the head with a mobile phone. The crowd, smelling blood, started melees of its own, throwing chairs and punches until police regained sufficient control to make...
From the house's seditious masquerade ball to the "M. Adams" pageant, which this year included men dressed in eatable body wraps, Adams has traditionally added a radical element to the campus...
...entered a local beauty pageant just for fun, and I won," she says. "One of the judges is now my current manager...
...began going on auditions shortly after the pageant and got a part on "All My Children...