For example, they typically do not lead funding, nor do they assemble groups of investors around a portfolio company.
She called in favors from friends across the culinary world to bring together what she calls a "difficult-to-assemble group of beloved writers who have never been in the same place at one time".
The assembled group immediately went out and dyed their hair.
The assembled group are up-and-comers rather than big online stars.
Dynamic verbs thunder in from the wings, announcing an event, producing a spark, adding drama to an assembled group.
But this time, the assembled group found itself surrounded by an intimidating police force, as police wagons began lining up around the political assembly.
"Always remember," Mr. Robinson, a stout, cheery man with silvery hair, told the assembled group, "salt to the left and pepper to the right.
The party was given by a woman, and the guest of honor was a German, who's Nazi ideas were greedily accepted by the assembled group.
Julian Koenig, who knew Mr. Asinof going back 80 years, told the assembled group that his friend "didn't like agents, and he didn't like publishers".
Mr. Spelman told the assembled group that he had contacted Mr. Springsteen's management but did not know if Mr. Springsteen would attend the concert.
He broke wind loudly, he recalls, then "I turned to the assembled group and said, 'Who did that?' Perhaps that was the beginning -- fooling people".
