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Because contestants memorize the same material, "it's like a beauty pageant, where the winning teams are the ones best at giving a speech," grouses Hatem. Fed up, two of the past three national champion coaches have resigned, as have at least a dozen others, including three last month...
...have been plenty of historic moments, but I've also experienced the bizarre thanks to The Crimson. There was the threat of physical violence from a hockey player after I insulted a plethora of Winter Olympics events, including the luge, the bobsled, figure skating, curling and the Miss Canada pageant. Despite the fact I don't want my bell rung like I'm Eric Lindros, I refuse to apologize...
...June 1998, she won the title of Miss Massachusetts. Three months later she found herself in Atlantic City, representing the state in the Miss America Pageant...
Hancock hails from Lexington, Ky., where her mother was first-runner up in the Miss Kentucky pageant years ago, and where Hancock herself won the Kentucky Junior Miss scholarship award...
...ballet with the high energy and cool irony of pop culture. The results, though sometimes too glibly "accessible," are more often bracingly individual. This season, for example, has seen company premieres of Fluctuating Hemlines, inspired by Camille Paglia's iconoclastic Sexual Personae; Carmina Burana, an unabashedly sexy dance pageant accompanied by Carl Orff's thunderous choral settings of medieval poems about love and lust; and Juanita y Alicia, a "family album" set to Buena Vista Social Club-type music performed live by Sin Miedo, a Washington-based Latino group...