He planned to approach the president with a packet of material about his missing grandson and dashed out of the ballroom to talk to him before he left the hotel.
In some years, a single publication -– most likely, the New Yorker –- dominates the evening and walks out of the ballroom with an armful of awards.
Reach for the Stars: They sing People wandering out of the ballroom where the festivities were going on could walk to the edge of the lobby and look out at the beautifully lit cascading fountains and across the Ala Wai Canal to the bright lights of the Honolulu city skyline.
What would otherwise be a drawn-out exposition of ballroom dancing on toe becomes a play between words and dance.
When the suburbs were built, in the seventies, the historic houses in the center of the town were abandoned to graduate students who heated beans over Bunsen burners on the heart-pine floors and sliced apartments out of ballrooms.
"It's really hard to get ballroom people to support anything outside of ballroom.
Artistic directors and conductors have generally been hearing auditioners in locations like the basement of Riverside Church, studios in Midtown Manhattan, hotel ballrooms and small, out-of-the-way theaters.
And yet once the action is sucked out of the glitzy hotel ballroom and poured back out onto our TV screens it is usually devoid of all atmosphere and plods like a tranquilised elephant.
But Karl Rove could not get out of the ballroom.
Mr. Menshawy approached worshipers as they poured out of the ballroom after prayer sessions.
