The conference, held at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel Hotel here, also devoted time to the annual election of officers and the presentations of awards.
Evening shows have different themes, including American Indian culture and recognition of dance competition winners, presentations of awards including the OA Distinguished Service Award and other entertainment.
Honored by Her Peers Janet T. Langsam usually presides over the presentation of awards to other people.
The conference is also devoting time to rituals like the election of officers and the presentation of awards.
The students will travel to Washington for a week in March for final judging and the presentation of awards.
They arranged a somber, dignified ceremony at the White House for the posthumous presentation of awards to the relatives of two soldiers killed in Somalia.
"The parents," Dr. Bronston said privately during a lunchtime presentation of awards and speeches, "have never been acknowledged as Holocaust survivors, American-style".
The Oscars also seemed to emulate the Grammy Awards, with more emphasis on centerpiece performances — by Adele, Shirley Bassey and Barbra Streisand, among others — than on the presentation of awards.
While the Buddha may not have been contemplating the MTV awards when he said, "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form," the show gives flamboyant form to the presentation of awards that signify approximately nothing.
Correction: February 5, 2000, Saturday An entry in the Addenda listing on the Media Business page yesterday about the presentation of awards by the New York Festivals misstated the client for which Ogilvy & Mather New York, part of the Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide unit of the WPP Group, won the Best of Show award for best product and service.
As no agency conference would be complete without the presentation of awards, there was some of that yesterday, too, as the association, known as the Four A's, gave out its annual O'Toole Awards for creativity and consistency in work for clients.
