The genre really got started in 1970 with The Phil Donahue Show (syndicated, 1970 96), a gentle hour-long program in which Donahue would explore a single topic with a collection of guests and then moderate comments and questions from the audience.
Barnes is speaking over breakfast at the Grosvenor House hotel in London's Park Lane, where only hours earlier a rather eclectic collection of guests, including Mick Hucknall, Alan Curbishley, Pelé and Barnes, had been in attendance for a dinner aimed at raising money for the Nordoff Robbins charity.
The Web site was essentially a collection of guest books, each one with a prompt, and the replies were all stand-alone contributions, adrift in a sea of other people who were speaking to themselves.
Lowe is joined by Ebro Darden and Julie Adenuga as full-time DJs, and the service also promises a rotating collection of guest DJs and other special content – they aren't each just settling in for three sequential 8-hour shifts, in other words.
Five years later, Navarre returned with his follow-up, Tourist on Blue Note Records, an equally stunning album that held on to the grooving meditation of his previous work, while extending his production passport to include even more of an international flair, as well as a collection of guest artists that help blur the lines between live and digitally produced sound.
Entering Hotel Blow Up Hall 5050, known for its impressive collection of art, guests may feel as if they have time traveled into the future.
John Romain, proprietor of a collection of seaside guest cottages known as Hana Hale Malamalama (which means "light" or "knowledge"), says the hale symbolizes peacefulness and the true spirit of Hawaii.
With sleek cooking equipment such as a high-end oven with a plate warming drawer, a triple-bowl sink by Dada and a seriously impressive collection of cutlery, Boulud's guests must get a Zagat-approved meal every time they visit.
Thus O'Connor turned against most of the stories in his first collection, Guests of the Nation (1931), on the grounds that they were "extravagant" and insufficiently revised.
The initial crush of guests were then assembling in the foyer a collection of witnesses and complications.
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