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...think those arguing in favor of capital punishment now are indulging in a form of nostalgia. Capital punishment no longer works as a morality play. Each execution (divorced from its moral meaning, including its capacity to shock and to warn the young) simply becomes part of the great messy pageant, the vast and voracious stupidity, the Jerry Springer show of American life...
Seven months after JonBenet Ramsey's murder, with the investigation going nowhere, police detectives in her hometown of Boulder, Colo., took an extraordinary gamble. They flew to Atlanta, Ga., where her parents had moved after the killing, and drove to the suburb where the children's beauty-pageant queen was buried. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday, Aug. 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera...
...turns out that staying in the bathroom is no worse than watching the ceremony, which is the least manly way of spending an evening other than crocheting while watching the Miss America Pageant. It's even worse if you're seated so far back that you're five rows in front of Gary Coleman and therefore can't make out any onstage cleavage. Plus it was hard being constantly reminded that in terms of pull in the entertainment community, I've only got five rows on Coleman. My agent already got a call...
...phrase "You will not freaking believe what's on Fox." Fifty women, running the gamut from merely attractive to damn!, chosen from more than 3,000, competed for the hand of a San Diego multimillionaire (barely; his fortune is estimated at $2 million) in what amounted to a beauty pageant minus the class and intellectual heft. There was a "beachwear contest," because, host Jay Thomas rationalized, Mr. Moneybags wanted his lady love to be "as comfortable on the beach as he is." There was a "personality test," in which 10 semifinalists answered questions along the lines of how they...
...Through posing for the camera and wearing the state crown, Emmy has learned the tricks of her trade. One of the weirder techniques she encountered is ibutt glue,i which is used during the swimsuit competition at Miss America pageant. iI will not deny it. I have seen some rather scary uses of duct tape, but wouldnit subject myself to such pain,i she admits. iOn the other hand, laugh if you must, but if anyone reading this had to walk in front of three million people in a bathing suit, I know they would want to make absolutely certain...