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...small press contingent on the ground felt the full force of executive power when Air Force One revved up its engines, taxied up the tarmac a couple of plane lengths, then turned onto the runway, jet-blasting wind, dust and grit onto the journalists and camera operators. Trailed by two black suburbans, the blue-and-white jet moved east, then turned west, into the prevailing winds, throttled to full power and lifted the Obama's into the mountain sky and off to another working-vacation destination, the next town hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colorado...
...earliest black sex symbols such as Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge to the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams. This is why Sims was such a revelation: a beautiful black woman who was - from her skin tone to her hair texture - truly and quintessentially black. She opened the runway door for others, including role model Michelle Obama and the other supermodel Naomi - Campbell - to catwalk through. (See pictures of Michelle Obama's style evolution...
...Charles. And as with Borat, the story in Brüno is just the merest pretext for stringing together provocations. At the beginning, Brüno is the hip-cocking host of Funkyzeit, a late-night Austrian TV show that tours the world of style. When he wrecks a runway show and ends up shunned by the Euro-fashion crowd, he lights out for the Middle East, Africa and the U.S. to become "the biggest Austrian superstar since Hitler." At which point Brüno becomes, again like Borat, a road comedy, the odyssey of an outlandish man whose greatest...
...Latin American left knows anything, it's the value of political theater. When leftist, coup-ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya tried to return to his country on Sunday in a small Venezuelan jet, buzzing the Tegucigalpa airport before soldiers blocked the runway, many inside the Organization of American States and the Obama Administration considered it a reckless stunt that might hamper a negotiated solution to the crisis. But as it turns out, the aerial spectacle may have aided their cause: it finally coalesced hundreds of thousands of Zelaya supporters on the ground and helped prompt Honduran coup leaders, already facing...
...bluff of the coup leaders and attempted to fly into Tegucigalpa in a small Venezuelan jet to the cheers of his followers. It could have been a spectacular homecoming for the history books. But after unleashing their M-16s on the protesters surrounding the airport, soldiers blocked the runway with troops and trucks. Zelaya's plane circled the airport at a perilously low height, then zoomed off to neighboring El Salvador, via a refueling stop in Nicaragua. And with Zelaya still in exile, the standoff over Honduras' disputed presidency goes on. (See pictures of the Honduras coup on LIFE.com...