Word: pageants
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...activities range from ice skating to wiffle ball to live performances. Their largest annual event is their fall “Wimpy Body Contest.” “We try to get all of the wimpiest guys on campus and try to do a Miss America type pageant with them,” Finkel says. Breckman proudly adds, “I won the first year it was done...
...turned down Rockefeller grant application, zero job offers and rejection from numerous parties and women. Is that all? Not even close. The Din and Tonics denied him a spot five times, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals rejected him four times and last year the judges of the annual Miss Harvard pageant refused Maats the sparkling crown and velvet sash—for the second year in a row. “I have no qualms about being publicly humiliated,” he says. “I think that’s the nice thing about rejection. It?...
...take himself less seriously has limited the negative impact of rejection. “If I’d won Miss Harvard, I’m not sure I could have dealt with the tremendous responsibilities of that position,” he says of the mock beauty pageant. “She’s always an ambassador.” Where his voice is concerned, Hunter respects the notion of different strokes for different folks. “There’s no such thing as a bad singer, just bad for that genre...
...WITHDRAWN. LAKSHMI PANDIT, 22, Miss India-World 2004, from the Miss World beauty pageant, after controversy over her marital status; in Bombay. Pandit said she once claimed to be married to a fellow model to rent an apartment. In 1989 Pandit's sister Kalpana withdrew from the Miss World contest when it was discovered that she was an American citizen...
...Galigo is vastly complicated, a pageant spanning seven generations set to a haunting score by the Indonesian composer Rahayu Supanggah. In Singapore, the show will have lavish sets and costumes constructed from fine Javanese batik. Yet for Wilson, the key to any successful production lies not in its music or props but in the structure of the show, whether it be an opera starring Jessye Norman, an evening of rock theater with Lou Reed?or the staging of an ancient Bugis epic. "Paris is a beautiful city because it has a beautiful structure," he says, explaining that a harmonious overall...