"We are members of an endangered species," said a liberal legislator, Helen Suzman, when she spoke recently at a ceremony announcing a new book by Alan Paton.

"I make a mean tossed salad and a great omelet," she says, beaming on the 18-minute promotional tape, unveiled last Sunday at the ceremony announcing her Senate candidacy.

"It's time we put aside the divisions of party and philosophy," President Clinton pleaded last month in a ceremony announcing his commitment to push for the same crime bill that failed in 1992.

The ceremony announcing the winners was broadcast on CBS.

On March 11, 2011, a formal ceremony announcing the facility's opening was held.

Former President Ghazi al-Yawar, who had conspicuously failed to show up in August for a ceremony announcing the completion of the constitution, publicly endorsed it on Wednesday.

Bale Boroun is the ceremony which takes place a short period of time after the formal proposal, publicly announcing the couple's intention to form a union.

The ceremony announcing the entries was delayed for 40 minutes while Downing argued and apparently lost.

So much so, in fact, that Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. usually appears at ceremonies announcing seemingly small triumphs for the program: 70 jobs here, 30 jobs there.

This time around, self-consciousness is inevitable, and not just because Wavy Gravy is one of the masters of ceremony, announcing, "The 60's is not over."