Word: pageants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Snow Place Like Home” stars a hotel owner, Bill Igerant, who decides to hold a beauty pageant at his Catskills ski resort—where tabloid reporter Diane Comebacktolife is promptly murdered...
...police screamed to the people running from the towers, "Don't look back!"--a biblical warning against the power of the image. Terrorism is sometimes described (in a frustrated, oh-the-burdens-of-great-power tone of voice) as "asymmetrical warfare." So what? Most of history is a pageant of asymmetries. It is mostly the asymmetries that cause history to happen--an obscure Schickelgruber nearly destroys Europe; a mere atom, artfully diddled, incinerates a city. Elegant perplexity puts too much emphasis on the "asymmetrical" side of the phrase and not enough on the fact that it is, indeed, real warfare...
...police screamed to the people running from the towers, ?Don?t look back!??a biblical warning against the power of the image. Terrorism is sometimes described (in a frustrated, oh-the-burdens-of-great-power tone of voice) as ?asymmetrical warfare.? So what? Most of history is a pageant of asymmetries. It is mostly the asymmetries that cause history to happen?an obscure Schickelgruber nearly destroys Europe; a mere atom, artfully diddled, incinerates a city. Elegant perplexity puts too much emphasis on the ?asymmetrical? side of the phrase and not enough on the fact that it is, indeed, real warfare...
...police screamed to the people running from the towers, "Don't look back!" - a biblical warning against the power of the image. Terrorism is sometimes described (in a frustrated, oh-the-burdens-of-great-power tone of voice) as "asymmetrical warfare." So what? Most of history is a pageant of asymmetries. It is mostly the asymmetries that cause history to happen - an obscure Schickelgruber nearly destroys Europe; a mere atom, artfully diddled, incinerates a city. Elegant perplexity puts too much emphasis on the "asymmetrical" side of the phrase and not enough on the fact that it is, indeed, real warfare...
...desperate effort to get with the times, the Miss America Pageant announced it will incorporate Survivor-type elements into this year's show. Contestants who don't make the finals will get to vote on who should wear the crown. Is this any way to run a pageant? As viewers of the summer's reality shows can attest, the democratic process hardly means the best man, or beauty queen, comes out on top. In fact, it's usually just the opposite...