Word: pageants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pageant's polarizing popularity has some undergraduates up in arms, and they're expressing their dissent over what they consider the exploitation of student bodies. "It's like a cattle market," says Elly James, a women's officer at the School of Oriental and African Studies. "Contestants had to have their waists and breasts measured. I come from quite a rural area and that's what they do to animals...
...Last month, James and her outraged peers launched Miss-Ogynist University of London - a campaign that calls for the "degrading" pageant to be scrapped before its grand finale. Three-hundred people have joined the Facebook group, and together they have organized debates and rallies in London, and convinced several student unions to ban pageant advertisements on campus because they violate the "safe space" policy of various university charters. Feminist ire isn't just directed at pageant organizers either. They also point the finger at contestants who they feel possess a false sense of emancipation. "Their attention-seeking is completely misplaced...
...Replete with glib responses, sequined gowns and layer upon layer of foundation, the beauty pageant is thriving at London's most elite universities. More than 400 women from institutions such as King's College, the London School of Economics and University College London applied to compete in six preliminary rounds, which started November 4, and culminate in the Miss University London finale in February 2009. Thus far, more than 2,000 people have paid ?15 pounds ($22) to attend the events, held at Crystal, an underground nightclub frequented by Kevin Spacey and Paris Hilton...
...knew that to convey the particulars of what must seem like ancient history to younger viewers, he needed to move from the long-shot perspective of a play to the interviews' own visual style: alternating medium shots of Frost with blistering close-ups of Nixon. Thus, what was a pageant on the stage becomes an intimate, magnified TV show, the camera alert to every nuance of Frost's insecurity rising to bravado, Nixon's pugnacity gradually sagging into defeat. This very fine movie doesn't make history, but it captures history as few others have. (See the Top 10 unfortunate...
MARIO LOPEZ just misses out on Meet the Press gig. Agrees to do Miss America pageant again as consolation...