His performance in those hotel ballrooms could be worth billions.
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People often seek hotel ballrooms or well-known sites for events.
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Weist says he was told the hotel's ballrooms and lobby could hold 4,000 people, but a press release obtained by The Verge from the Garden Grove Police Department stated the ballrooms could only hold 1,500 people.
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Outside the ballrooms of the Ritz-Carlton, however, the picture looks different.
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"For weddings and holiday parties, people look for unique venues, not ballrooms."
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Or the residual publicity for the largest and best ballrooms in Florida?
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His sold real-estate training sessions, the seminars often held in hotel ballrooms.
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Brown is not a regular at big-money fundraisers held in cushy hotel ballrooms.
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Beds and ballrooms aren't the only ways hotels can distinguish themselves from one another.
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THUMP: Sara, you're from Sweden, which is an ocean away from the ballrooms of NYC.
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For many, the houses and ballrooms are a refuge from a violent and hostile world.
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The singles' events, hosted in disco ballrooms with neon lights and power ballads, seem antiquated.
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Today, we are filling ballrooms and raising millions of dollars in government and private funds.
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Meanwhile, in the ballrooms of Monrovia, Gbessa uneasily assimilates into the Americo-Liberian settler elite.
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But eventually I ended up coming to New York and joined the ballrooms in New York.
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I spent the afternoon in Hilton Grand Ballrooms A and B, where plenary talks were held.
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Adjacent is The Bar, inspired by retro cocktail lounges from decades past and glam French ballrooms.
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Most hotel ballrooms or conference centers are carpeted and lack sinks and other washing facilities, however.
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Plans called for 350 rooms, residential spaces, two ballrooms and 12,000 square feet of event space.
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On it went like this, for hours at a time, in a handful of hotel ballrooms.
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"The Lorelais' First Day at Yale" (season 23, episode 29) "Ballrooms and Biscotti" was just a prologue.
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There were meetings to prepare for and banquets that didn't end until after midnight in hotel ballrooms.
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These groups support the president's right-leaning politics by renting out its ballrooms for lavish private events.
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While the lobby and ballrooms were glamorous, I found the guest rooms to be much more understated.
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It's Wednesday night at El Beso, one of the most traditional and popular tango ballrooms in Buenos Aires.
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No wonder 153,000 foreign investors packed hotel ballrooms earlier this year at an Iraq-reconstruction conference in Kuwait.
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"The hotel ballrooms where the event was scheduled could hold a maximum of 1,150 people," the department says.
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Paris is Burning is a time capsule of a city that no longer exists, though the ballrooms persist.
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Mr. Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren hosted rallies in adjacent ballrooms in Ames on back-to-back days.
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The hotel's plans called for 350 rooms, residential spaces, two ballrooms and 12,000 square feet of event space.
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The opulent oasis includes three individual suites and two ballrooms, which took years and hundreds of craftsmen to restore.
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But the star of the space was a massive red-and-gold spiral staircase that led to the ballrooms.
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Now, Trump is in the White House and supporters wearing his signature red hats dotted the conference's halls and ballrooms.
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It's a change of setting for Trump, who typically favors his own ritzy golf clubs and ballrooms for formal speeches.
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The princess Irene Galitzine was acquainted firsthand with the ballrooms and opera house foyers where her opulent fashions were worn.
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Mm-hmm. There's all kinds of — for those that don't know — there's all kinds of side things in the ballrooms.
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Substance fades Advance teams in Singapore were scouting hotel ballrooms -- including at the ornate Shangri-La hotel -- as possible locations.
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It is known for one of the largest ballrooms in Europe, the Great Room, which award ceremonies and charity balls.
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Amy Brooke Saul and Jason Lawrence Mollengarden were married March 14 at the Biltmore Ballrooms, an events space in Atlanta.
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People flocked to 758 evacuation centers on Saturday, while tourists hunkered down in hotel ballrooms and conference rooms in coastal areas.
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People flocked to 758 evacuation centers on Saturday, while tourists hunkered down in hotel ballrooms and conference rooms in coastal areas.
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Teams had already been surveying hotel ballrooms and other possible locations for the meeting when Trump declared it canceled last week.
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"Ballrooms and Biscotti" (season 232, episode 232) Mostly the season four premiere is just Lorelai and Rory being charming and quippy.
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In all, it paid the Trump hotel about $1.5 million for guest rooms, meals and access to ballrooms and meeting areas.
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Throughout the day on Monday, rescue teams brought in families seeking sanctuary in the hotel's ballrooms, convention center and guest rooms.
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WeWork and SoftBank were hammering out final structure and size details of SoftBank's cornerstone IPO commitment, and bankers were booking ballrooms.
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The new space will include one of the largest ballrooms in the city and accommodate up to 191969,200 people, the statement said.
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Since then, they have mostly played the wrongful-conviction circuit, playing gigs at TedX Talks or in hotel ballrooms for bar associations.
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At 22019, she was invited to join the troupe on tour to introduce the Lindy Hop to clubs and ballrooms in Europe.
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A mainstream adult radio listener today doesn't have to fit the mould established in the wake of Britain's 1950s dance halls and ballrooms.
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People had flocked to 758 evacuation centers on Saturday, while tourists in resorts along coast hunkered down in hotel ballrooms and conference rooms.
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"Fast", the byword of the era, applied not just to Soho "flappers" and Jazz Age ballrooms, but to the country-house set, too.
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It's fascinating to watch in the film as the crowds in the hotel ballrooms that come to hear him start to dip off.
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The wardrobe of a city that once was, filling skyscraper boardrooms and ballrooms, typist pools and art collectives, and may never be again.
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The cheerleaders have been eating their meals in one of the ballrooms of the adjacent hotel, about 100 meters from their accommodations, Kim said.
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That same night, a coterie of some of the most powerful people in Washington shook hands, shared meals, and danced in the lavish ballrooms.
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And the poses are fierce, though here they are struck in various makeshift spaces — high school gymnasiums, it appears at times, rather than ballrooms.
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Throughout the halls, ballrooms, and lobbies I spotted intricate details such as frescos, murals, tapestries, sculptures, and carvings, which cultivated a sense of luxury.
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He later committed himself fully to photography, which let him wander through Paris photographing bars, ballrooms and occasionally brothels, sometimes giving direction to his subjects.
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Car garages, derelict East Van character homes, and abandoned Italian ballrooms are just some of the DIY spaces that have played host to Cormier's shows.
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A great hotel is eternal, and the tidal movement of individuals and ideas into its lounges and ballrooms is a necessity for one longtime resident.
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Starting out as a shoe-shiner on the streets of São Paulo, Lula spent most of this century commanding ballrooms and stages the world over.
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Antilia includes swimming pools, ballrooms, a garden that spans three floors, six floors of parking, three helipads, and it can withstand a magnitude 8 earthquake.
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Her comments regularly drew catcalls, laughter, groans or shouts — or some combination thereof — from ballrooms full of men in suits gathered to hear company presentations.
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From chapels in Poland, to ballrooms in Germany, to cemeteries and casinos in Italy, these images transport the viewer to a magical world of neglected spaces.
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In the chandeliered ballrooms of Bally's casino, Democrats spent the first two days of their meeting whispering in large part about Perez's appointments to the DNC.
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The convention center halls, hotel ballrooms, and branded lounges of CES are full of eager businesspeople and marketers, hawking their wares to buyers and the press.
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Make no mistake — Victoria (Jenna Coleman) is our heroine, and we watch her fight to hang on to her power through ballrooms, staterooms, and royal chambers.
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The couple, after their celebrity-like greeting, returned to their suite to change and then headed to the ballrooms on the second floor for a celebration.
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Hosts of this year's Hilton parties — held in ballrooms and massive tents around its compound — included HBO, the Weinstein Company, Fox, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros.
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It was true, and I found myself jealously glaring at groups of teenagers who were running sugar-high circles around the various ballrooms, hugging and snapping selfies.
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"As a black person of non-gender-conforming experience, my first existentially reciprocal and affirming experiences were in the New York ballrooms," the 23-year-old says.
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At the back of the room a wall of tarnished old mirrors, hung frame to frame, glowed with the silvered light of old ballrooms and candlelit salons.
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The resort is a popular spot for weddings, and features two chapels, two ballrooms and multiple "lawns" overlooking the May River, perfect for hosting a scenic reception.
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Despite fierce opposition from more conservative members of society, Bertie's acceptance of Consuelo meant that doors to the most influential ballrooms around the country began to open.
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"Today is a metaphor for what we can accomplish for this country," Trump said Wednesday in one of the hotel's ballrooms where six chandeliers hanged from the ceiling.
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Natasha's love for Andrei winds itself through the ballrooms of Moscow and the trenches of the battlefield, where it is transfused with Andrei's love for his fellow soldier.
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While the stars spend awards season walking on red carpets and sipping bubbly in ballrooms, we spend it live-tweeting from our couches and taking sparrow-faced selfies.
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A "P6" logo was splashed all over the ballrooms in the hotel where media day was held and even on the balls at a golf outing on Monday.
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But at CEO dinners, in hotel ballrooms, and on private donor listservs across the Bay Area, Warren is emerging as an outsider that Silicon Valley insiders can live with.
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In October, it announced plans to house some of the city's homeless in its sumptuous city hall, built in chateau style with turrets, gilded ballrooms, ornate stonework and statues.
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What they found was a revolving door of powerful people holding galas in the hotel's lavish ballrooms and meeting over expensive cocktails with White House staff at the bar.
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They joined the field of 11 Democratic candidates campaigning in packed school gymnasiums and hotel ballrooms six days after the Iowa caucuses drew lower-than-expected numbers of voters.
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It was held in a trio of frigid ballrooms at the Hyatt Regency — a long way across the river from the Austin Convention Center, where most SXSW events are hosted.
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In and out of the ballrooms at Contact vendors offer a wide variety of out-there goods that could perhaps best be described as Goop for people on a budget.
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"If I had to do the same thing over and over again in three of the same hotel ballrooms or ugly country clubs, this would not be appealing," she said.
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But it was RuPaul's Drag Race, the Emmy award–winning show, that truly brought drag culture — and, with it, RuPaul — out from gay bars and ballrooms and into people's living rooms.
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The hotel and water park follows in the grand tradition of eerie Poconos vacation destinations; beige carpets, long hallways, elaborate chandeliers hung above grand ballrooms with peeling walls, and so on.
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And workshops — from "Beginners Lindy" and solo jazz to ballroom competition — take place in tents named after New York's famous ballrooms: the Savoy, the Alhambra, the Palladium, Roseland and Small's Paradise.
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He grew up in Chicago at a time when dancing — the kind done in hotel ballrooms — was studied and practiced by young people who envisioned making a career out of it.
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Standing in lines that start around the block and squiggle through the hotel, up the stairs and through multiple ballrooms they chat with the people who are running to be delegates.
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Up until the final year it was published in 1966, the guide listed thousands of safe havens that comprised a nation-wide network for people of color, from barbershops to ballrooms.
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The survival of ballrooms from their heyday in the 1920s has been central to the continued growth of tango in Portland, providing affordable and central venues for weekly milongas (tango social dances).
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The biggest changes to the hotel are the additions of two new ballrooms on the second floor, and a 4,500-square-foot suite and terrace on the roof, above the 10013th floor.
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Almost all the ballrooms and clubs from 1920s Chicago, like the Royal Gardens, the Dreamland Café, or the Pekin Inn, and New Orleans clubs and saloons like Tom Anderson's, are long gone.
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The massive consumer electronics convention takes over the whole city, filling all of the expo halls and the ballrooms with televisions, drones, VR headsets, electric cars, and so, so many AirPods knockoffs.
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In the space of two huge hotel ballrooms, Twitter had created a theme-park-like miniature city, a members-only Twitter town that was realistic enough to be used as a film set.
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A hyperloop startup is sharing its vision for ultra-fast travel via pod at presentations in hotel ballrooms around the world — and a flash-bang demo in Las Vegas the presentations are not.
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One such panel this year met to sleepily critique President Trump's economic policies, but it was overshadowed by another panel, two ballrooms away, that jolted a profession that prides itself on cool rationality.
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L. Samuel Friede's Coney Island Globe was to be a 700-foot-tall, cast-iron entertainment center for Coney Island, containing vaudeville theaters, circus rings, ballrooms, a roller-skating rink, and several other attractions.
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The attorney general, Karl A. Racine, said the committee, which organized Mr. Trump's January 2017 inaugural celebration, vastly overpaid to use ballrooms and meeting rooms at the Trump International Hotel near the White House.
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The Caesars Forum, opening in 2020, will include a 550,000 square foot conference center, with 300,000 square feet of flexible meeting space and "the two largest ballrooms in the world," according to its website.
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A favourite of photographers, the once wealthy German mining town is said to have been abandoned in the mid-1950s, its ornate houses and ballrooms giving way to sand that curves around doors and walls.
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The Londoner, which is a rebranding of the existing Sands Cotai Central resort, is set to be just as lavish, with 600 suites, 13 ballrooms, 3 spas, 20 restaurants, and over 200 iconic British retailers.
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In one of the open market corridors, a bit away from the ballrooms, a man offers iridology analysis, an alternative medicine whose proponents believe the characteristics of a patient's iris hold the key to health.
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There is graffiti in the ballrooms where Johnny might have taught the cha-cha, and the ceiling is falling down in the dining room like the one where Baby was fatefully seated in a corner.
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Her task was to make professional contemporary dancers move as people had in the black ballrooms of the 1940s, and her corrections were all aimed in the same direction: Drop lower, don't hold yourself so upright.
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It's spent the past few weeks in ballrooms and hotels fielding questions and we'll see if they were actually able to quell concerns, or if that was going to affect any demand in the first place.
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America had entered World War II; musicians were drafted, the big bands decimated; with the country in a somber mood, swing music and the Harlem ballrooms, famous for their wild Lindy-hoppers, were out of fashion.
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Artists, journalists, filmmakers, politicians and all those in between could be found dotting the ballrooms and presentation spaces of various BK hotels and hotspots, including the Williamsburg, Wythe William Vale hotels, the Brooklyn Brewery, and McCarren Park.
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The dueling remarks at the conference, with underpinnings of Cold War tensions, played out under the sparkling chandeliers of the Hofburg Palace as diplomats came in from a cold, gray Vienna day to ballrooms warmed by endless speeches.
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I get pitched a dozen stories a day about the "5G revolution" and no one can tell me exactly what's in it for me other than long presentations in hotel ballrooms about bandwidth (ironically, often without any cell reception).
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For Fourier it took the form of the phalanx, a group of well-matched individuals living together in a phalanstery: a palatial residential complex complete with meeting halls, dining rooms, libraries, ballrooms, beehives, observatories and coops for carrier pigeons.
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Over the years, singers like Josephine Baker and Marlene Dietrich performed beneath Berns's showstopping chandeliers; I have dusty memories from the early aughts of dancing under those giant, glittering teardrops after midnight when the ballrooms had become thumping nightclubs.
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In all four hotel ballrooms, there were vodka-soaked parties for the Russians, many of them hosted by an attractive San Francisco heiress who so loved the Socialist cause she took the local K.G.B. station chief as her lover.
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But both Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders have curtailed their travel and canceled big gatherings because of the virus, and on Thursday they found themselves addressing small groups of reporters in sparse hotel ballrooms in their hometowns, Wilmington, Del.
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Centred around towns and cities like Wigan, Blackpool, and Stoke, thousands of youngsters descended down to ballrooms to dance 'til the small hours to uptempo soul records that had never been heard on this side of the Atlantic before.
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In one, Christie discusses his lifelong Mets fandom and is polished and even a little charming in the way of someone who has spent a lot of time telling the same stories to ballrooms full of balding boosters and partisans.
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While their words echoed the tone of presidents in moments of crisis, they delivered their remarks before small groups of reporters in drab hotel ballrooms — not at the kinds of large rallies that typically happen at this stage of a campaign.
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While the fighting has raged near Mosul, diplomats, analysts and tribal sheikhs who oppose the Islamic State have been meeting in hotel ballrooms in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, to start a discussion about reconciliation and political reforms.
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Civil asset forfeiture might sound like a dirty word in the salons and ballrooms of Washington, D.C. hotels, but the funds local departments and offices raise from selling the ill-gotten gains of drug dealers are used to buy critical equipment.
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The White House has argued that using Trump's Miami-area resort would save Americans "millions of dollars," and, given its proximity to the airport, its size, and its "tremendous ballrooms and meeting rooms," the Doral would be a smart choice.
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On Saturday, P.J. Schrantz, who founded Veleve, a charity that provides support for veterans, is betting on Mr. Trump to make an appearance at a $600-a-plate fund-raiser his organization is hosting in one of the club's ballrooms.
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Scaramucci packed the Bellagio hotel's ballrooms each year by giving some 1,800 attendees access to former U.S. Presidents including Bill Clinton and George Bush, central bankers such as Ben Bernanke and hedge fund superstars Daniel Loeb, Ken Griffin and David Tepper.
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In lavish hotel ballrooms and guarded private suites lining the mezzanine of the Quicken Loans Arena, donors expressed their concerns that Trump -- 10 weeks after winning the nomination -- still does not have a group that has demonstrated an ability to win unlimited checks.
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President Obama has spent most of his travel time the past eight years on official duties: countless fund-raisers, state visits to foreign capitals, pep rallies with American troops, policy announcements and never-ending summit meetings in hotel ballrooms the world over.
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North Wales, which boasts two ballrooms (one handily connecting to the master suite via a private staircase), was briefly owned by the originator of the two-pants suit and was almost snagged as an American bolt-hole by the Duchess of Windsor.
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Until the media learns that not everyone can become a North Korea or Google expert overnight, we are going to continue to see warehouses and ballrooms filled to the brim with preening writers and camera teams, while the stories that most need telling remain overlooked.
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Even to him, with his inveterate salesman's optimism, this failure became undeniable, and therefore oppressive — probably never more so than during his last two years, when he was dying of cancer and still dragging himself to one-off seminars in hotel ballrooms across the country.
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This past weekend was the sixth annual DC Tattoo Expo which is held in the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA. The show welcomed thousands of guests, who weaved up and down the ballrooms aisles, some there to look and others to get new ink.
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" During a previously filmed interview, Weist tells Dawson that the event was supposed to have access to all of the hotel's ballrooms, as well as its lobby, and that "the Marriott told me to my face that it will hold right around 4,000 people.
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The house's elaborate, sprawling, and labyrinthine structure—with 161 rooms, stairways that end in blank walls, closets that open up to the floor below, and cabinets that open out to hallways and ballrooms—was, the story goes, a means of keeping those ghosts at bay.
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Though Midwest FurFest panels, dances, and exhibits were scheduled in ballrooms and meeting halls on the first three floors of the hotel, attendees booked a majority of the 20073,000-plus guest rooms throughout all ten floors, meaning furries were spread throughout the hotel that night.
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Both Mr. Trump and Ms. Bondi have said they never discussed complaints against Trump University and a separate entity, Trump Institute, which Mr. Trump did not own but that paid him licensing fees to use his name for wealth seminars held in hotel ballrooms.
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In separate ballrooms at the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Friday morning, shareholders of the Walt Disney Company and 221st Century Fox agreed to a $221 billion purchase plan that gives Disney the bulk of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, substantially altering the entertainment landscape.
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It has been a chaotic and confusing end to the yearlong race to win Iowa, as campaigns gathered their supporters for caucus night parties in hotel ballrooms in Des Moines, only to wait, and wait, and keep waiting, for election results that never came.
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In the early 70s, pioneering DJs like Nicky Siano, Grandmaster Flowers, and Pete "DJ" Jones, as well as their late-903s successors Larry Levan and Tee Scott, were bringing their own laser lights to parties they threw in hotel ballrooms and other venues around New York City.
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In the cold data of Manhattan real estate, its dimensions — 269 feet by 67 feet with ceilings of 17½ feet — make the space roughly as long as the average north-to-south city block, as wide as three brownstones and taller than most double height ballrooms.
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It's a glittering, overwrought story, driven by the plot mechanics of the opera: Lilliet is constantly betrayed by her lovers, or betraying them in turn, serving and then turning on empresses and countesses, starving in a war-stricken Paris or dazzling the ballrooms of the Second Empire.
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Metaphorically, there was a storm raging outside, but inside a series of ballrooms, at events billed as "coffee with Ivanka," Ms. Trump answered nonchallenging questions from supporters about favorite memories of attending college in Philadelphia ("great restaurants") and her top campaign trail moments ("those primary wins").
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At a real estate gala in mid-January, AmTrust Title hosted three open bars across two ballrooms in Midtown Manhattan, as hundreds of real estate officials mingled between bites of tuna tartare and fresh mint mojitos that came with a stirrer with AmTrust's logo on it.
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Contri's hair is going a little gray, and he mentions that maybe the Punk might survive to have totally white hair—that maybe he could still be talking about games 30 years from now, like old men talking about toy train sets in the corners of convention ballrooms.
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Buy it here >>In this fantastical ode to storytelling, the bestselling author of Night Circus takes us where pirates lurk and doors lead forward and backward in time, where crowded ballrooms collapse into oceans, and a young man must piece together clues to uncover and protect his life story.
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The suit filed by District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine alleges that city's laws governing nonprofit organizations were violated when the Trump International Hotel charged the Presidential Inaugural Committee inflated prices to use ballrooms and other spaces during the festivities surrounding Trump's swearing-in three years ago.
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With a sense of style that rivals Liberace's, Mr. Rieu brings a heavy dose of spectacle to his performances, with his female musicians dressed up in cakelike pastel crinolines, stage sets that include life-size ballrooms and ice rinks, thousands of balloons, and lighting effects that bring to mind magical sunsets.
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The overt sexuality is largely gone, but the sentiment remains, lingering over CES like the stench of sweat and cigarettes stamped into the sprawling carpets of the Las Vegas ballrooms: these women are props, bait for the throngs of leering men, luring them into the booths where professional PR types can unleash their pitches.
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Even as teams of advance staffers survey ornate hotel ballrooms in Singapore for the June 12 encounter, some of the President's advisers privately say the chances of the talks occurring grew slimmer after North Korea adopted a harsher tone toward the US last week and raised questions about Kim's commitment to, and definition of, denuclearization.
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But the public-facing agenda is really just the wallpaper at Davos, a realm in which the world's largest financial institutions throw lavish dinners for clients in hotel ballrooms, where mergers are explored in private suites, where diplomacy is pursued, lucrative relationships are forged and pop bands entertain at parties underwritten by tech titans.
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Buy it here >>Almost 10 years after she wrote "The Night Circus," Morgenstern offers readers a shape-shifting, time-bending, otherworldly adventure of storytelling, where pirates lurk and doors lead forward and backward in time, where crowded ballrooms collapse into oceans, and where a young man must piece together the clues to uncover and protect his own life's story.
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The weekend seemed designed to boost the president's mood — the chance to air his grievances and give a speech to a friendly and enthusiastic audience of young supporters, golf with friends like conservative radio firebrand Rush Limbaugh and PGA player Jim Herman, and mingle with his biggest fans in the lavishly decorated halls and ballrooms of his resort.
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The Trump people make it extremely hard to figure out what's going on with their businesses, so we've done things like try to figure out all the people, the charities who rented out ballrooms and hotel rooms, all the NBA teams that stay at his hotels, people that pay him a lot of money and have other choices.
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To those who attended Comic-Con in its early days, when the entire convention occupied a few ballrooms in the Grant Hotel, the 50th edition of the event -- which now spills out of the massive San Diego Convention Center -- symbolizes the cultural and commercial triumph that Lee lived to see, with comics and specifically Marvel becoming a hugely influential force.
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On the main stage at the Wells Fargo Center and along the sidelines of the convention, more than a dozen Democratic senators, mayors, governors, cabinet members and state lawmakers are carefully peeking past this year's presidential election to 2020 or 2024 as they work ballrooms full of delegates, donors and activists who would be critical to the pursuit of a national campaign.
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While seated in those hotel ballrooms, lit by the blue glow of smartphones and the massive projections of each speaker's PowerPoint presentation, I was able to experience something that years of research on religious enthusiasm could never conjure: I got to feel what it was like to be surrounded by true believers in a cause that was only valued by an in-crowd, an ascendant elect.
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It was 1967 — after the Pierre had become a co-op, with full-time residents purchasing their apartments and hiring the first in a series of hospitality companies to manage the restaurants, ballrooms and transient-room operations — when the artist Edward Melcarth gave the Rotunda Room its trademark mural: a Renaissance loggia peopled with mythological characters and, seemingly, whomever else he fancied throwing in.
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He would graduate to winning (and, on rarer occasions, losing) tens of thousands of dollars in as little as an hour; achieve celebrity status in a game that had migrated from black-tie casino tables to cheesy hotel ballrooms, where baseball caps worn backward were de rigeur; and be named the top player in an unofficial ranking by his peers, known as the Giants of Backgammon.
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Diamonds still rule the engagement ring purchase — accounting for 83 percent of center stones, according to The Knot's 2019 Jewelry and Engagement Study — even as the market for alternate bridal stones continues to grow, in step with all the other tradition-busting choices that mark modern nuptials (think multiple outfits rather than just one white gown, food trucks instead of three-course meals, and venues such as breweries and campgrounds in place of hotel ballrooms).
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According to about a dozen people interviewed by the Associated Press, the free events take place in hotel ballrooms where instructors inform attendees that if they pay to enroll in three-day courses, they'll learn how the star couple flips homes, as well as gain access to investors who will give them cash to buy properties (even if they have low credit scores or a weak job history) in order to earn back their money quickly.
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It wound past clubs that are just bars with a stage in the back, or lightly redecorated union halls, or resurrected chantoosie joints from another era, or ex-vaudeville palaces with paintings on the ceiling, or hotel ballrooms with a thousand conspicuous fire-code violations, or sawdust-floored folkie taverns with an aura of everybody having missed the bus a decade earlier, or jazz lofts in semi-industrial parts of Downtown so remote there's no place within a mile to buy cigarettes after dark.
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