Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biblical parable, by dewy- eyed cast members. "Share," they intoned as they pulled the bread from inside costumes in which they had run, jumped and sweated for an hour. Thus at the Centrum in Worcester, Massachusetts, opened the greatest story ever sold, a seven-month arena tour of a pageant from Paris titled Jesus Was His Name...
Dershowitz, Harvard Law School's most high-profile professor, is representing boxer Mike Tyson in his appeal of a conviction for the rape of beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington...
Tyson's story, of course, has a tragic ending: the heavyweight champion was convicted of raping a contestant at the 1991 Miss Black America Pageant and is serving six years in federal prison. Fallen Champ recounts that notorious case with evenhanded sensitivity and an absence of polemical heat. Queen is overwrought but ultimately comforting; Fallen Champ is understated and as punishing as a left...
...Theatreworks/USA, a touring troupe specializing in new musicals. During three decades, it has played to more than 20 million children in every state but Hawaii. Its new HANSEL & GRETEL blends Humperdinck's opera music (ably arranged) with a libretto that softens the grim story by making it a pageant staged by a Salzburg family. The highlight: David Gallo's sets, which are sturdy enough to travel, versatile enough to become a forest or a witch's lair, and ravishing...
Mike Tyson wears that number now as a guest of the Indiana penal system, after being convicted for raping a teenage beauty-pageant contestant. In doing so, the heavyweight ex-champ forever damaged the genial stud image of star athletes and threatened to give boxing an even blacker eye. Evander Holyfield, the titleholder in Tyson's absence, had a Mr. Olympia physique but the charisma of a C.P.A. -- until November, when he fought challenger Riddick Bowe. Holyfield lost the decision, but in standing up to Bowe's horrifying piston punches he proved himself the champ Tyson could never...