Five citizens of Oneonta had been assembled in a meeting room at the State University to talk about what mattered to them.
At an earlier session, top editors were instructed to climb up on tall boxes that had been assembled in a circle, stand on one leg, and hold hands, the better to understand the concept of teamwork.
The movie as it exists now, in any case, seems to have been assembled in a spirit of anxious caution, with the hope of making something as derivative and second-rate as possible.
Even before the findings have been assembled in a scientific paper, the discovery is prompting new thinking about when Jerusalem rose to prominence, the nature of the early Jewish kingdom, and whether the Bible can be used as a reliable map to archaeological discovery.
Similar to Worldwide Plaza, but lacking its strengths, is the Americas Tower by Swanke, Hayden & Connell, now under construction, where thin slices of granite have been assembled in a skyscraper that tries to echo the mood of the setback towers of the 1930's - buildings that had a visual weight to them that this one can only pathetically yearn for.
Reflecting this trend, some 50 feature films, documentaries, shorts, experimental films and video sin genres from horror to comedy, from coming-of-age story to fairy tale, have been assembled in a series at the Museum of Modern Art by Joshua Siegel, an assistant curator in the Department of Film and Video.
