Word: pageants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gown of 1998's Miss Israel with the faces of Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat and Bill Clinton. Her 1999 effort--worn by the first Arab Miss Israel--featured a Star of David. The heavy-duty 2001 creation could also keep Miss Israel safe from the roving eye of pageant director Donald Trump...
Think back to those fairy-tale pictures of the virginal Diana swathed in white, riding away with her Prince Charles. Did it ever get any better, for her or for us, before a tragic death sanctified her? The whole messy pageant of the Windsors since Diana's appearance 20 years ago has been a relentless procession of what Disney knows to leave on the cutting-room floor...
...Home reflects character. The Kennedys' walls and furniture gleam with the silver-framed pageant of their photogenic tribal progress. Ronald Reagan's weight room in the White House seemed wistfully egotistical, decorated on the theme of himself, with movie posters of himself and the TIME Man of the Year cover illustration of himself. Richard Nixon wanted to outfit his White House guard in elaborate Graustarkian uniforms, a tinhorn spectacle of power, but was embarrassed out of the idea. Patton, too, was a great one for designing gaudy special uniforms for himself and his troops. George C. Scott's "Patton...
...unique feature of the party in recent years has been the mini-pageant of movie skits in which famous actors and industry titans get up on a miniature stage in cheesy costumes to act out humorous little vignettes from the year's Best Picture nominees. The scripts are usually thin jokes, read from pages thrust into their hands as they go on stage. Many of the cracks are insider gags tailored for the glittering crowd. What it most resembles is the living room shows that six-year-olds put on for their parents and relatives. The real quality...
...they did a good job. Unfortunately, probably too good. The greedy, bloviating speeches may be the worst part of the ceremony, but they're also the best. If the Oscars are not a grand pageant of celebrity entitlement and hubris, then they are nothing. What you take away from the Oscars is not how early you went to bed that year: it's the hysterical Angelina Jolie moments, the irritating passive-aggressives saying, "Turn that clock off, you're making me nervous!" The latter comment came from the long-winded Roberts, who began "I have a television...