NEW YORK - If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then this year's Miss USA contestants are giving the world an eyeful thanks to a controversial lingerie photo shoot.
Critics say the publicity photos ahead of the pageant in Las Vegas this Sunday are a tawdry attempt to publicize the event. Organizers say they are making the show, which previously frowned on overt sexuality, more modern.
"All the contestants really pushed their envelope," Paula Shugart, president of the Miss Universe Organization, said on MSNBC television. "We've always been the cutting-edge pageant." ...more.
