Word: pageants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Holland, or “Miss Congeniality,” put on a French accent throughout the pageant, blowing kisses to the audience and repeatedly calling out “Merci! Merci...
...said that, since winning the pageant last year, he had acted in a movie called Crouching Tiger Hidden Drag Queen. He also complained about having failed with his “world peace” platform, and said that he came back sore from visiting American troops in Afghanistan, who he said had not seen their wives in a long time...
Absent from this year’s pageant was the controversy surrounding last year’s event, when some students voiced concerns about the way beauty pageants portray women...
...There were some people who assumed that it was going to be something stereotypical, but they didn’t realize that it would be a mock pageant,” Soong said of last year’s contest. “We tried very hard to be sensitive to women’s issues while still making a good show...
...Soong said in an e-mail that he expects IMPACT will stage the pageant again next year...