But with Castro confined to his state-of-the-art convalescent suite, the festivities were downgraded to a far more subdued affair.
As part of the Texas Sesquicentennial festivities in 1986, a state-of-the-art stage was introduced to accommodate musical performances, which are now as big a part of the rodeo as the actual rodeoing.
He theorized that Dudley Scott filmed the afternoon festivities at the Donohue house in Sioux City, then used his state-of-the-art movie equipment to make a copy for the family.
The Oct. 16 dedication of the state-of-the-art building and the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology marked the conclusion of a day of festivities -- and the culmination of years of effort.
A great week of All-Star baseball festivities ended fittingly with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays sharing center stage on Wednesday when Bob Costas taped a state-of-the-game panel for his HBO show, "Costas Now".
The hotel was the site of festivities during the inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth government in November , 1935
Nevertheless, in a country as socially and geographically diverse as Mexico, there is significant regional variation in the nature of festivities: the southern state of Chiapas is far more likely to focus its efforts on processions and public commemorations of death than the valley of Mexico, where the decoration of altars in homes and tombs of the deceased is more popular.
I felt it impossible not to participate in the actual moment". Not only did the Cranes pass their examination, on March 25 , 1985 but six weeks later they were the stars of the state Victory Day festivity in the Kremlin, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the triumph over Nazi Germany.
The results also suggest that rather than condemning "Meiji red" as an aesthetic disaster, more attention should be paid to indigenous meanings of red as the color of festivity, sacrality, and healing powers, as well as a manifestation of the power of the new Meiji state to mobilize those traditional sentiments.
There will be a great sense of partying, of festivity.
There was an air of festivity in the atmosphere.
