Word: pageants
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Bottoming out: Miss USA Rachel Smith, who fell during the Miss Universe pageant. This is "kind of a big deal when the only judging criteria are how you look in a bikini and your ability to walk," says blogsite THE SUPERFICIAL. Later in the show, the Mexico City crowd booed Smith out of distaste for non-beauty-related U.S. policy. She lost to Japan's Riyo Mori. SCORE...
...Rastafarians smoke.' ZAHRA REDWOOD, the first Rastafarian Miss Jamaica and contestant in the Miss Universe pageant, scheduled for May 28, saying she wanted to undo the common stereotypes surrounding her faith, in which smoking marijuana is considered a sacred rite...
...didn’t really work a lot with Shawna until the day before [the pageant]," Sharon Sinnott said. "I wanted the true Shawna to come...
Sinnott’s fellow ROTC members teased her at first for entering the pageant, according to David F. Boswell ’10, an Army ROTC cadet and a friend of Sinnott’s. But in the end, he said, Sinnott’s fellow members respected her commitment...
Although the Marines have always been Sinnott’s "first love," she said that she is excited about her reign as "Miss Boston." Her first appearance will take place today at Red Sox Opening Day. Sinnott plans to compete in the "Miss Massachusetts" pageant this June...