I had been sitting in my mother's house in a small town in Rhode Island watching the Miss America Pageant, as we always did. After... the telecast, I went into the kitchen with my bathrobe tied around by neck singing, "Therrrre She Is, Miss A-mer-i-caaa!" And that very next year I was there on that stage, with God knows how many people watching, and millions of seventeen-year-old women sitting in their living rooms watching the Miss America Pageant. Well, I was so emotionally touched by the whole moment that I was hysterical crying! That I was there, and that there were millions of people watching me, dreaming about doing it someday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoro...ughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) ar...e the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master.... If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whom ...they put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, he...r temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss U.S.A. is in the same graveyard that [Amanda Jones] the twelve-year-old is. Where the sixteen-year-old is. All the past selve...s. There comes a time when you have to bury those selves because you've grown into another one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss Caswell: Now there's something a girl could make sacrifices for. Bill: And probably has.... Miss Caswell: Sable. Max: Sable? Did she say sable or Gable? Miss Caswell: Either one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are "shaggy dog" stories; they have a... point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lights... are being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »