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...rather obvious reminders that much still needs to be done, the international community is treating South Africa as if change has already occurred. Sun City, a white gambling resort at which few Americans have performed in the past for fear of endangering their careers, is hosting the Miss World pageant as well as a million dollar golf tournament featuring such notable players as Nick Faldo and John Daly...
...creating a portrait of themselves: powerful elitists, unsullied by the vulgarity of conscience. Director Kalin -- a comer -- is smart enough not to explain the murderers. Instead, in a chiaroscuro cinema style that suggests morgue photos taken by Cecil Beaton, he presents the pair as stars of their own camp pageant, a sickly sweet deb ball, where the revelers dance all night on the bodies of their inferiors, then wake up to find their dreams in chains...
Consider, for example, a presidential race in which the leading candidate tap-dances and croons torch songs, carries on a tabloid affair with a beauty- pageant entrant and has a running mate who is a national joke when he's not a faceless nonentity. This party's winning agenda consists of one word: love. Americans are urged to vote their belief in romance, and overwhelmingly they fall...
Beautiful and talented southern belle. Rebuffed at the Miss Mississippi beauty pageant this summer, East returns to the hive as Queen of the Bee Club...
...Because to do so is immoral and wrong, runs the standard, timeworn answer. But this stricture has never cut as much ice with potential liars as moralists would wish. The vast majority of criminal defendants assert their innocence, no matter what the evidence against them. Watergate was a baroque pageant of major players and spear carriers trying to lie themselves out of jeopardy...