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Is the formalized apprentice model including entering contests to earn beauty-pageant approval--for that is what it amounts to the best way to find great poetry?
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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On the cocktail's purported 75th anniversary, 20 acclaimed chefs lined up their restaurants' creations on the fabled bar, exhibiting the pride of child beauty-pageant stage moms.
The Bloody Mary Makeover Steve Garbarino 2011
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Casting the Laverne & Shirley and This is Spinal Tap comic genius as Victor Baron, a Donald Trump-like beauty-pageant mogul would seem like a masterly move.
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Is the formalized apprentice model including entering contests to earn beauty-pageant approval--for that is what it amounts to the best way to find great poetry?
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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Producers have come up with novel twists in casting contestants, using comely twin sisters and brothers (leading one wag to dub it Twin It to Win It) and beauty-pageant contestants as well as NBA cheerleaders and NFL players in upcoming episodes.
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My early predilection for tomboy activities had put my beauty-pageant stage mother on course with a nervous breakdown.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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But Katie tells Seabiscuit she's not listening to any of them anyway -- spoken like a true child beauty-pageant queen.
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“Hang on,” Kendall said, flashing that freaky beauty-pageant smile again.
Freefall Mindi Scott 2010
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But as she told The Detroit Free Press earlier this week, speaking in pure beauty-pageant parlance: "The fear that people had implanted since 9/11, maybe what I did can show people that, you know what, who cares what ethnicity you are."
Sex and the Shiite 2010
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The officials were not perched on the backs of convertibles, beauty-pageant style; they were settled, more appropriately, inside sedans.
Kate Kelly: Small Town Parade Has Big Place in Local Hearts 2010
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