By all accounts, a Ta'ziyeh performance on its native ground is a raucous emotional event, both celebration and worship.

The soirees were often raucous events with artists experimenting with new forms of performance, such as sound poetry and simultaneous poetry.

When he wasn't busy being governor, Hoffman was active in the Circus Saints and Sinners Club, which supposedly aided retired circus performers but mostly seems to have held raucous social events.

But at its heart, the caucus was Iowa to the core, filled with earnest Democrats burning to beat President Bush and enjoying the high emotions and the political horseplay of the raucous event.

A few weeks ago I attended question hour at the Australian Parliament, a raucous weekly event when the opposition questions the Prime Minister, Paul Keating.

The New Year's Eve parties were sometimes raucous events, as the new year was rung in five times to mark each of the nation's time zones.

"The block parties have become raucous events characterized by loud music, public drunkenness, vandalism, and total disregard for local and state laws," Mr. Rawlings wrote.

The rivalry with West Virginia University was heightened by the fact that Morgantown was located in a dry county, making the trip to nearby Washington for a game against W&J a raucous event for students.

Mr. Bush's speech today was delivered at a sometimes raucous event where Jeb Bush delivered remarks almost entirely in Spanish and Gloria Estefan sang the Cuban national anthem.

Some are raucous events with hundreds of people, while others are much smaller and more reserved.