Veteran watchers who never miss the presentations regard it as one of those traditions, like certain Thanksgiving dinners, that would seem incomplete without some suffering.
You'll miss the presentations being held upstairs, but when we meet in the exhibit hall for the free food and drink that inevitably closes out the show, I'll be happy to stand with you and make small talk about the extra $2000 I spent.
Mr. Kely was ill at home and missed the presentation.
The threat of a rising Raritan was so imminent that some town officials missed the presentation on flood reduction, choosing instead to remain at the municipal command post in case the waters peaked too high.
(Ernest Michel, who has worked at the United Jewish Appeal Federation for more than fifty years, missed the presentation, but said that Davis had performed for the group in Las Vegas, and "everybody loved that guy").
For those who missed the presentation, videotapes will be available from the Laguna Beach Historical Society, as are DVDs of previous society programs.
She flew to New York for NBC's presentation and party on Monday, but then raced back to Los Angeles on Tuesday to start hiring writers for "Whitney," forcing her to miss the CBS presentation on Wednesday.
Will Hayler: Having somehow managed to miss the special presentation of jockeys on the first two days of the meeting, I suspect that Ryan Moore is odds-on to make it a treble in the next few minutes as a handful of riders are dragged out of the weighing room into the parade ring as part of the build-up to racing.
Speaking of restorations, be sure not to miss the free Friday presentation "Amazing Tales from the Archives". Among others, French filmmaker and restoration expert Georges Mourier will talk about his ongoing six-and-a-half-hour restoration of Abel Gance's Napoleon for the Cinémathèque Française, in partnership with Francis Ford Coppola, and The Film Preserve Ltd.
For those that missed the first presentation.
