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...cosmology surrounding the race got even weirder once the dust had settled. It turned out Cathy's, the first individual gold ever won by an indigenous Australian, was the 100th gold awarded to the country overall. It fairly announced, "Time for a new start." And people were buying into that. After the race, Cathy said, "I'm sure what has happened and what I symbolize will make a lot of difference to people's attitudes. It will change attitudes in the street and in the political forum." I took this down, of course, but I was thinking: good luck...
...natural brunette? Yes. (We knew it!) As a bisexual? Uh...kinda. If you can call this coming out, it is one of the weirder comings-out in the history of the genre. Smith writes of a doomed youthful romance with a fellow female student at the University of Texas; their parents read their love letters and forced the two apart. Yet she writes about her longtime roommate, the archaeologist Iris Love, with puzzling coyness. She dismisses Kitty Kelley's insinuation, in a book on Nancy Reagan, that Love and Smith were a couple ("a fantastic aside that I had been...
...Millionaire--with the crass namesake and surprise smash Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? In the process, it underscored the new reality of TV's New Reality: oddball, cheap nonfiction programs, from game shows to voyeurism stunts, are elbowing aside sitcoms and dramas. And they may get even weirder...
...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...
Between men and women there seems to be a widening separation based partly on the new varied social status of women and on men's difficulties in making adjustments. Movie plots have men turning into women, women men. One of our weirder celebrities, a basketball star named Dennis Rodman, put on a bridal gown a few years ago and married himself. Saner but sadder consequences are evidenced in an absence of romance in courtship and the treatment of sex as sport...