At the outdoor reception after the convocation, Ms. Van Valey said, she asked the band to stop playing for a few minutes to enable her to speak to the crowd.

They are used for the president's outdoor receptions and parties.

For the outdoor reception, guests donned their party favor flip-flops, sipped beer, and dined on pulled pork, macaroni and cheese, and biscuits.

The complications that follow at the outdoor reception might be described as Mr. Rohmer's elegantly psychologized and sublimated version of a classic French farce.

I'll be making the cake and bringing some finger food for the outdoor reception, but other than that, there wasn't much left once you got the permit.

A unique Convention Center feature is the expansive Barney Allis Plaza, a public square ideal for outdoor receptions, festivals and concerts.

And during a recent outdoor reception for a foreign dignitary he yanked away an umbrella from a colonel trying to hold it over him.

On a lawn beyond the platform an outdoor reception was breaking up.

Even before this summer began, Ms. Sills had had enough of the heat, having abandoned an outdoor reception for the opening night of the Jazz at Lincoln Center series in May.