Now the networks are hoping to make up lost ground after the introduction next week of their fall schedules at lavish presentations around Manhattan.

In past years, he said, the studios might send academy members videotapes of the films in elaborate boxes with lavish presentations.

It is a lavish presentation, employing 40 marionettes, and some characters require as many as four puppets, each differently clothed.

"The trick with Whole Foods is that they're constantly congratulating you for shopping there," he said, "through signage, lavish presentations, the meat cases and the fresh foods."

Beginning as a page, a member moves on to the rank of squire and then, with a lavish presentation, becomes a knight.

James's more lavish presentation of portraits had its effect on the quality of the work from the Hilliard workshop.

He is noted for developing the lavish presentation of silent films in the deluxe movie palace theaters of the 1910s and 1920s.

That is when the networks, in their lavish annual presentations to advertisers, will announce their fall schedules.

The first of these lavish presentations of food and wine, "Eat for the Retreat," will be held on June 4.

The Roman de Fauvel is best known for its lavish presentation in the deluxe manuscript Paris, BN fr.