![]() ![]() STEPHEN POLLARD: Any dog owner whose pet takes a human life should face murder charges – and I say that as someone whose mother was maimed by our family’s Jack Russell. ![]() Millionaire couple in furious row with local heritage society over plans to demolish 'beautiful' historic property on West Sussex seafront for £7M newbuild mansion a stone's throw from homes of Keith Richards and Kate Winslet.Revealed: The 'XL Bully breeder' and wannabe rapper arrested after his 'mother-in-law', 68, was mauled to death by his unregistered dogs in front of her screaming 11-year-old grandson in Essex seaside horror.By focussing on these conflicts about private and public morality and the place of sex and race in society, the Williams affair will have a lasting impact. Many blacks are convinced that the exercise is an effort by Mr Guccione, the media, and the pageant organisers to demonstrate that black women are not fit for the peaches and cream title of Miss America.Īlthough lesbians and feminists have often been closely allied they have been bitter enemies of the sexual purveyors. They touched the inner tensions of American morality. They were the kind of photos which send the Bible Belt into righteous fury and make feminists cringe. They crossed from the utilisation of a beautiful body on display to all but hard porn, raising issues of lesbian sexuality and miscegenation. Innocent nudity was seen as a far lesser evil than its exploitation and Miss Williams, as a hero for blacks, had to be treated carefully.īut what the sympathisers had not reckoned with was the nature of the pictures. She was seen as the innocent victim of a sleazy publisher in a society where purveyors of pornography are generally vilified. Public sympathy was very much on Miss William's side – until yesterday. Bob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse, announced that he had acquired the rights to photographs of Miss America in the nude and would be publishing them in the September edition. Even feminists, long critical of "cheesecake" competitions, showed a quiet acceptance.īut over the weekend the sweet spell of Miss William's victory, which had lingered for almost a year, was broken. Here was a bright student at Syracuse University with a brilliant singing career ahead of her who, like the Rev Jesse Jackson, had achieved something for her race two decades after the civil rights act of 1964. This was not just the archetypal dumb broad parading around in a brief swimming costume. The Miss America pageant which had been attracting little national interest and had fallen on bad times – partly because of the feminist movement – was reinvigorated by her selection. Her victory 11 months ago struck a national chord. She has been described as a Renaissance woman who broke a colour bar through her beauty, intelligence, and performing skills. As the first black Miss America, in a competition which historically favoured white women, Miss Williams, aged 21, has been one of the most sought after title holders in the competition's history. The case highlights the sexual and racial neuroses which are part of contemporary American society. She insisted that the only piece of paper she could recall signing in connection with the photographs was an application to work as a model, and not a release allowing sale of the photos. "I never consented to the publication or use of these photographs in any manner." She had been enraged after seeing the photographs. ![]()
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