Word: pageants
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...overlooked the fact that people might think the categories were offensive." SONGWUT KHUMARAK, Thai organizer of a children's beauty pageant, on a decision to drop the "sexy body" and "swimsuit" categories
...decade ago, Americans spent $17 billion a year on pet products and services. But that was an era before Animal Planet and its famous pet psychic, before Judge Joseph Wapner moved from The People's to the Animal Court and before last week's prime-time Miss Dog Beauty Pageant on Fox. This year pet purchases are expected to rise to $31 billion, despite the raise-free economy, with much of the money going to products that no one dreamed of 10 years ago. These days Clifford could sue his family for neglect...
Perhaps most creepily sunny of all is NBC's America's Most Talented Kid, which often plays like JonBenet: The Series, as when a 5-year-old girl performs a coquettish version of Swingin' on a Star, shaking her hips and interjecting "Ooh la la!" Child-pageant culture has long been with us, but--like marriage between cousins--it rarely bursts so prominently into the mainstream. And yet there is something fascinating about this raw display of kids' and/or their parents' preternatural ambition: 10-year-old Brityn Martin, for instance, performed a high-impact dance routine with a hairline fracture...
...Pageant contestants’ mothers are notoriously pushy. Is your mother a stage mother? Have...
...currently the reigning Miss Arizona, and when she finishes touring the country to raise awareness about mental health, she’ll get around to finishing her law degree at Arizona State University. Lawless grew up in New York, where she competed in the Junior Miss pageant in high school. At Harvard, she sang in the Radcliffe Choral Society and concentrated in psychology. Her junior year at Harvard, she found a way to help pay the tuition bills: she took the crown for Miss Freeport, Mass., a pageant open to out-of-state contestants, and competed in the Miss Massachusetts...