"This is not a staged event".
But was this a staged event?
Of course, in Panem, everything is a staged event, given that everything is seen by a nation-wide audience.
Playing a few minutes against Vancouver almost seems self-congratulatory, a staged event that is beneath one of the N.B.A.'s top 50 players ever.
Dobbs says that he considered the President's speech a staged event, and ordered his producer to return to the studio.
For the handful of people collecting evidence of a staged event, the truth is also clear, even if the proof is not in hand".
It is a staged event, a mock trial where anti-agriculture technology and anti-Monsanto critics play organisers, judge and jury, and where the outcome is pre-determined," wrote Martha Burmaster, Monsanto's director of human rights.
The division of the realm is clearly a staged event in which McKellen reads a prepared speech, announcing that he will "unburdened crawl towards death" with a wry chuckle: obviously, he intends the exact opposite.
Ron Sims, who is the King County executive, a supporter of gay marriage and a candidate for governor, participated in a staged event encouraging the couples to sue him and other county officials.
But since the whole country knows the fix is in, a Bush victory there will be discounted as a staged event, producing delegates but no real test of the winner's appeal in the Northeast.
Reporters, editors and political consultants throughout the city pointed out that The Post did not join other newspapers in reporting a staged event to announce an open secret: the official declaration of candidacy for mayor by Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president.
