A formal event in a ballroom with one couple dancing, and many people sitting around tables.
the formal even had a couple dancing
But while she got plenty of media attention, her story was widely dismissed as irrelevant under the Ozark Exemption, or as the nattering of, in the words of Newsweek 's Evan Thomas, some sleazy woman with big hair coming out of the trailer parks--a remark for which he later apologized.