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Then a modest reception of cookies and fruit juice began in the screening room.

Despite the modest reception for "Manhunter," curious Hollywood onlookers were attracted to the scenes of Lecter's crimes.

At 8 30 p.m., the Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500, jalc.org; $35 to $85. (Anderson Richard Bucknerr (Thursday) After two decades of superb alt-country discs and their unjustly modest reception, this Brooklyn singer-songwriter fully embraces his lonesome cache on this month's "Our Blood" (Merge), a wintry account of aimless travels and eroding resolutions.

(Anderson) CANCELED − Richard Buckner and David Kilgour (Saturday) After two decades of superb alt-country discs and their unjustly modest reception, the Brooklyn singer-songwriter Mr. Buckner fully embraces his lonesome cache on this month's "Our Blood" (Merge), a wintry account of aimless travels and eroding resolutions.

Government pressures limited artistic achievement in Iran, though Mani Haghighi's troubling Paziraie sadeh (Modest Reception) lodged in the mind, and Yek khanévadéh-e mohtaram (A Respectable Family; Massoud Bakhshi) wrapped its story of an expatriate professor's return in a tellingly threatening atmosphere.

At the lunchtime reception, Queen Elizabeth is expected to lay out a modest spread of Champagne, wedding cake and two-bite appetizers, or canapes.

A modest bottle of wine costs $34.

A modest crowd of 8,000 is expected.

A Modest Defiance of Gravity.

Whereas it was once acceptable to have a modest service and reception, toss the bouquet and some rice and then move on, today's brides ruminate over every detail: the color of the napkins and the color of the desserts.

Faith is necessary for a salvatory reception of the sacrament.