After five months of suspense about whether the mayor and the Legislature could reach a deal, with no small amount of political theater, the news of a tentative agreement was delivered with minimal fanfare.

WITH minimal fanfare and a modest new sign, the Summit Art Center was recently renamed the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts.

Occupying a conspicuous place within what has become our national commons, it accepts with minimal fanfare the established theatricality of the Mall.

Last summer, with minimal fanfare and $175,000 in financial backing, a band of American aviation enthusiasts journeyed to Greenland and, they believe, finally located the aircraft.

The series called Artists International Presentations, by contrast, signs up a far broader array of performers and puts them on with minimal fanfare.

It came out to minimal fanfare but paved the way for their first CD release Curses on Too Pure Records in September 2007.

They came with minimal fanfare, but much clanking and commotion as they brought with them a diabolical-looking machine.

In 2008, HHRBLonline.com was launched to minimal fanfare.

Howard M. Sachar plunges into "Israel and Europe," the latest of his many books about Israel and the Jews, with minimal fanfare.

Under sunny skies but with minimal fanfare, presidents, kings and ministers from every continent gathered here today to salute the United Nations on its 50th birthday in an atmosphere mingling disappointment and hope.