Word: pageants
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...self-destructive ways (drug overdoses, alcohol, rampages, broken marriages, suicides or, if the celebrities are lucky, a trudge through the rehab that ends with confession and absolution in prime time: "I feel more centered now, Barbara"); all this mess forms up as part of the great sobbing dysfunctional pageant on display at the supermarket check-out counters...
Like beauty pageant contestants, the would-be hosts of the 2004 Summer Olympics ? who spent around $100 million strutting their stuff ? will be spending the holiday weekend in an excrutiating wait for the judges' verdict. All but one of the delegations from Athens, Rome, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town will go home humiliated and out-of-pocket when the International Olympic Committee convenes in Lausanne, Switzerland next Wednesday. Here they will announce the winning venue for the first games, technically speaking, of the new millennium...
...repeat, not a ploy to boost ratings. The organization, concerned that the image of the beauty queen is a wee bit outdated, is giving the competition a make-over. Accordingly, the national office distributed to local organizers the following list of word substitutions to make during this year's pageant season...
...junior high, Jones took up what was to be one of his life-long loves, the trumpet, and sang in a gospel quartet. He made his local debut with a horn solo at a school Christmas pageant at the age of 12, his national debut as a trumpeter for Billie Holiday...
...source told the New York Times that if the union lasts one more year, she will get a portion of his net worth, estimated at between $450 million and $2.5 billion. No hard feelings, though. Marla apparently will still be the host of the Trump-owned Miss Universe Pageant in Miami...