For female athletes, sexuality and performance are often conflated, and a camera-ready appearance frequently opens the door to successes separate from competition.
These days, most candidates want to go down a campaign trail as predictable as "The Truman Show," courtesy of advance teams that carefully prepare camera-ready appearances with professional lights, music and backdrops, and heavily stocked with vetted (and sometimes coached) supporters.
The lights were hypnotic and pulsing and we danced on the seats and I kicked off my heels because that is one brand of torture I am not built for, and, anyway, even though I had spent two hours getting ready, my appearance was the least of my concern.
Though Vidal's ideals of sexual freedom were of the times and even ahead of them, and though his sympathies lay with student protesters, his carefully crafted public persona was as profoundly inegalitarian, élitist, and old-fashioned as Buckley's; his crystalline appearance appeared ready to shatter at the sound of an electric guitar.
Obama's critics have zeroed in on the talking points, a reference to a memo prepared for lawmakers and then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice to help her get ready for appearances on Sunday news shows to discuss the attack less than a week after it occurred.
While inventive, salmon kebabs were not quite ready for public appearance.
Mr. de Blasio wore a suit, ready for an appearance at church.
She is getting ready for her appearance, with other like-minded country musicians, in a Ryman Auditorium concert of the soundtrack music from the Coen Brothers' next movie, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" which will open in December.
Cuoco Sweeting punked her Instagram followers in March when she posted a shot of what looked like short hair with scissors in frame and the caption, "I can't stop!" Turns out it was her makeup artist, not her hairstylist, wielding the shears, and the actress was merely getting ready for an appearance that night at the Kids Choice Awards, Us Weekly reported.
This usually involves a process of introversion in which all images and memories of outer things must be set aside so that the inner eye may be opened and readied for the appearance of God.
