Word: pageants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...turns out that staying in the bathroom is no worse than watching the ceremony, which is the least manly way of spending an evening other than crocheting while watching the Miss America Pageant. It's even worse if you're seated so far back that you're five rows in front of Gary Coleman and therefore can't make out any onstage cleavage. Plus it was hard being constantly reminded that in terms of pull in the entertainment community, I've only got five rows on Coleman. My agent already got a call...
...phrase "You will not freaking believe what's on Fox." Fifty women, running the gamut from merely attractive to damn!, chosen from more than 3,000, competed for the hand of a San Diego multimillionaire (barely; his fortune is estimated at $2 million) in what amounted to a beauty pageant minus the class and intellectual heft. There was a "beachwear contest," because, host Jay Thomas rationalized, Mr. Moneybags wanted his lady love to be "as comfortable on the beach as he is." There was a "personality test," in which 10 semifinalists answered questions along the lines of how they...
...sheis not the only one. Elizabeth iEmmyi Hancock i00, a former Miss Massachusetts, also committed herself to the modeling industry. A veteran of TV commercials, Emmy received even more hot offers after capturing her pageant title. Beginning to get her portfolio together, Ashanti A.W. Decker i02 is breaking into the world of stick-thin women, Diet Cokes and haute couture. Trying her hand at photo shoots and runway shows for the first time, Ashanti is learning what it takes to be like Naomi, Cindy and Giselle...
...Through posing for the camera and wearing the state crown, Emmy has learned the tricks of her trade. One of the weirder techniques she encountered is ibutt glue,i which is used during the swimsuit competition at Miss America pageant. iI will not deny it. I have seen some rather scary uses of duct tape, but wouldnit subject myself to such pain,i she admits. iOn the other hand, laugh if you must, but if anyone reading this had to walk in front of three million people in a bathing suit, I know they would want to make absolutely certain...
...that sealed the deal. His first words to her were "You are so beautiful." I, personally, would have asked how she got to be so pathetic. National Organization for Women President Patricia Ireland said to the New York Times, "It took something like this to make the Miss America pageant look good to me. At least with the Miss America pageant, you get scholarship money and the guarantee of a yearlong...