Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carlin can be perversely playful as well as pointedly satirical. He once suggested new rules for football (sample: leave the injured on the field), proposed that the Miss America Pageant "make the losers keep coming back until they win," and offered a new restaurant idea: all you can eat, to go. These are absurdist brainstorms that, in a few choice words, conjure up Marx Brothers movies...
This is all antithetical to the Bee. They thrive on not talking. That's the point. They don't want to keep their club a total secret (Honey East lists the club on the resume that she submitted to a Jackson, Mississippi beauty pageant), but they're not truly the elite until they shut people out. Beauty pageants, cocktail parties, a stir of rumors along the Eliot corridors--this sort of publicity is good...
...unlike all recent world's fairs, Expo '92 is not single-mindedly focused on wowing people with visions of the technology-intensive Utopia just around the corner. It is a comparatively backward-looking affair, a pageant of past progress. The official theme is "The Age of Discoveries," and that pretty much means European colonization, featuring full-scale replicas of Columbus' ships. In Europe, Eurocentrism is not yet a bad thing...
...past, current Bee President Honey East '93 has also refused to comment to The Crimson on the club. But East identified herself as the president of the Bee--"the first women's social club at Harvard"--in a resume submitted to a Jackson, Miss., beauty pageant, according to pageant director Dr. William H. Smith, in a March 9 interview...
There's nothing wrong with star casting when the role fits, as it does with Baldwin and Alda and Hirsch. When a show really goes wrong, performers are rarely the problem, anyway. Last week's biggest Broadway fiasco was a ponderously staged pedantic pageant from stage luminaries -- writer John Guare, actors Stockard Channing and James Naughton and director Sir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Like all Guare's plays, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun deals with ordinary people's inability to accept ordinariness, their yearning for mythic and epic significance. But it thwarts itself by hanging...