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...make the national pageants, like the Miss India gala, have to settle for other, less glamorous affairs, including scores of neighborhood beauty shows, intercollegiate contests and parade-queen competitions. In Bombay earlier this month, for example, 16 women tramped up and down a lumpy catwalk in a damp, steamy tent vying for the title Miss Monsoon. "Please watch out for holes in the carpet," warned the choreographer during a run-through. "We don't want any falls." Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Alvares, one of 150 applicants, explained, "This is a real stepping-stone for me. Maybe someone will spot...
...also may have fumbled his chance to offer undecideds what they just might crave. Not Reagan/Bush, not Clinton/Gore, but again, something different. In their sniping at Cheney, the Gore camp is trumpeting the GOP ticket's apparent tent shrinkage - and then signaling that the veep may go left with his own running mate. Base against base. Labor against management. Poor against rich...
Later we pitched our tent in Chaco Canyon, just at dusk. Presently there rumbled into the campground five or six rhinoceros RVs, behemoths with generators on their roofs that hummed and groaned all night to power the people's TVs and air conditioners. They slept sealed up inside the beasts, and in the morning the rhinos rolled off single file down the blacktop, heading for Zion...
White's is a transformation that begs for comparison with Saul's on the road to Damascus. Grandson of a tent revivalist, White was ghostwriter of choice in the 1980s to the Evangelical elite, co-authoring books with Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. One day, sitting with Falwell in a car surrounded by gay protesters, he realized he should be on the outside. After 25 years of clandestinely trying to "cure" himself via exorcism, electroshock and prayer, the father of two divorced and settled down with a man named Gary Nixon. Then he began searching...
...more negativity, it's a win-win deal," Gore and Bush told a press conference in Austin, Texas. "This will be the party of the big tent. The sum will be much greater than the component parts...