The Banquet Hall, whose 70-foot-high barrel-vaulted ceiling evokes medieval grandeur, is among the most astonishing spaces.
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Unlike the feeding frenzy of 1996, the FCC's December sale could end up being the banquet nobody attends.
We Lutherans were expected to act as some kind of ground peasant-burgers at the banquet table of life.
At some flower-strewn Roman feasts, rose petals were sprinkled on the food, the table, and all over the banquet hall.
Beau Nash would've been gambling in the banquet rooms behind me.
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Jill Kelly noted the cancellation with a post on her Twitter account on Friday in responding to a person disappointed the quarterback won't be attending the banquet.
This sparks off yet more excitement among the press outside, who press their varied equipment up against the glass, like hungry party-goers not invited to the banquet.
As Ofelia creeps through the banquet hall, she glances upward.
Efforts to cull the starfish have had some success, but a better approach would be to reduce agricultural run-off and thus cut the banquet enjoyed by the larvae.
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The banquet's guest speaker was former New York Gov. David Paterson, who was a radio talk show host on WOR in New York City after he left office in 2010.
In the banquet hall, guests were entertained by a Chinese opera troupe, as Chang drifted happily from guest to guest, engaging them in conversation and making introductions across continents and cultures.
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In contrast, it is more like going to the restaurant and tasting different samples of the wonderful cuisine at every visit, then at retirement enjoying the banquet even more for having the samples ahead of time.
This racket is so lucrative that there is a market for pretending to be a journalist just to bring in payoff money, a premise the writer Yan Geling played on in her novel, The Banquet Bug.
In their 50 years of marriage, she had never itched for a college education, being more than content to raise a big family, run a gift shop, manage the banquet hall at a golf club, lead Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops and, as a convert to Catholicism, explore the contours of her religious faith.
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Mr Goldhagen mentions the death banquet but not, she notes, the Latvian participation in it.
Although the Union's members may be too busy horse-trading with each other to think much about confronting anybody else, there were expected to be two powerful ghosts at the Euro-banquet on the Riviera.
He rattles off the quack's sales patter with buffo aplomb, whistles humorously through his teeth during his comic impersonation of an elderly senator at the wedding banquet, and his duel of wits with Ms. Netrebko at the end of Act II demonstrates the cavernous distance between their vocal styles.
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Inside the Executive Court Banquet Facility at the Best Western in Manchester, hundreds of Paul supporters of all ages filled a large dance hall.
There will be more meat in next week's visit than just what is on the menu at the state banquet.
Shortly before then I had turned down an offer of home-cooked delicious lunch by my wife in order to have enough free space in my stomach for the anticipated banquet.
Similarly warm greetings came through from the community, from people waving to the motorcade as it drove by to the thunderous applause that greeted her as she entered Washington Hall for the Class Banquet.
And although I only have word-of-mouth information on his trapeze abilities, and a picture of his tree climbing, I actually got to witness his ability to walk on his hands, starting from a sitting position on the floor where he was positioned alongside the many tables set-up at the awards banquet, he was able to pull himself up into a handstand, and walk on his hands.
In the evening, the president will be the guest of honor at a banquet where the king and queen and the Norwegian prime minister will be among 250 attendees, Owre said.
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There are a number of events in and around Anchorage leading up to the Iditarod start, such as the Mushers' Banquet, various Iditarod educational seminars featuring mushers and race officials, and even a competing annual festival and parade in Anchorage, the Fur Rondy.
The Queen has paid tribute to the "common values" shared between Indonesia and Britain at a state banquet for the Indonesian president.
The prime minister's annual speech, delivered at the Lord Mayor's banquet at Guildhall in London, outlines the government's foreign policy priorities for the year ahead.
Since the hotel opened its doors in 1929 its rooms and famous banquet hall - the Great Room - have housed royalty, politicians and celebrities including actor Orson Welles.
Ofelia, wandering through a tunnel, encounters the Pale Man sitting motionless at the head of a banquet table covered with food.
Most prominent was the British paleontologist, biologist, and comparative anatomist Richard Owen, who coined the term dinosauria (Greek for "great lizards"), and in 1853 opened a Dinosaur Court in London's Crystal Palace, holding a banquet in the belly of an ersatz iguanodon.
And the other amusing thing is that one of the Sumerian epics describes a Sumerian god making a banquet for another god, and the steps are all mapped out for how the beer is made, which means that the oldest written recipe in the world is for beer.
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