Such as when a group of well-dressed men meet in an office, one spies a beautiful woman through the window, so another goes to a cupboard to fetch his rifle … The film is full of scenes like this, most set around the characters gathering for a dinner that never arrives.
At any social gathering, say a dinner or a child's birthday, everyone has a story to tell.
Prior to capturing the mobile phone video data, a family gathering around a dinner table makes a connection between Luci's counting experience (Wagoner 2017) and her transitory symbolic play moment with the felt necklace.
For a close gathering like a dinner party, these details are essential.
We get Bluebeard smoking a cigar as "fat as a baby's arm," and the Erl-King gathering his dinner in the woods: "He knows which of the frilled, blotched, rotten fungi are fit to eat; he understands their eldritch ways, how they spring up overnight in lightless places and thrive on dead things".
But he's actually gathering his dinner.
The photo, posted to an album titled "President Trump's Trip Abroad," featured the spouses of NATO leaders gathering before dinner at the Royal Castle of Laeken in Brussels. .
(It's hard to imagine their descendants gathering for a celebratory dinner at a steakhouse).
That first sentence, and the description of Manly Night that follows — a roster of carefully curated men gathering for a weekly dinner and black-and-white movie, complete with a special toast and other ritual flourishes — subverts the expectations established by previous installments in the Hef canon.
The gathering seemed like a dinner party interrupted by a ceremony, which was led by Mason Lyall, a friend who had been freshly ordained online by the Universal Life Church.
