I felt like I was not a CUTE kid, and I remember seeing PEOPLE transform. It was actually when my sister was in the beauty pageants and I was in some pageants. I didn't WIN any. I always got that like, participant trophy, but I fell in love with the way MAKEUP could transform people.
In most audience-participation SHOWS, the participant is so clearly not a PART of what's GOING on that it's the fish-out-of-water ASPECT that makes it funny.
The sudden collapse of the monarchy that had RULED Russia for three hundred years led to chaos. Russia immediately BECAME, as one participant PUT it, 'the freest COUNTRY in the WORLD.'