Aside from the cleanup, which requires 100 workers, the festival concludes on Fat Tuesday with awards to the best teams, a procession and the burning of a scarlo, or a pole covered in heather and juniper bushes, Gadling writes.
After about 90 minutes, things wrapped up as low-key as they started, with the candle procession team leading the members of Sigur Rós out of Studio A just before the house lights slowly came up.
Even so, the next day officials in Havana orchestrated a huge homecoming for the team, with a victory procession through Havana, along streets filled with flag-waving Young Pioneers, culminating in a rally in the city's sports stadium which was presided over by Fidel Castro himself.
Jackson and a team of prosecutors summoned a procession of witnesses, including Johnny Webb and the Barbees.
"We marched in like we were going to war," said Greg Robertson, a four-time A.C.C. champion hurdler and team captain, who choreographed the procession.
It wasn't the swashbuckling style that the US had used to get to the final, but perhaps it was precisely the sort of competitive game this team needed to validate their procession to the title.
It was the ninth inning and the sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium had dwindled to a partisan Boston Red Sox crowd, giving ovations to the visiting team and watching the unlikely procession of four consecutive Yankee hitters getting their first at-bats of the season.
The "parade of nations," a long procession of national teams, posed one question: Would any of the athletes make a show of solidarity with gays and lesbians — a raised fist, say, in a rainbow glove?
They piled into four golf carts and followed the entire team, who led them in a procession around the outfield and toward Monument Park.
Upstairs in his room, Keane bade farewell to a procession of largely sympathetic team-mates at the door of his hotel room.
