National conventions represent regional interests much as Congress does, and there is always a good deal of unarticulated but nonetheless powerful anti-Establishment sentiment at the quadrennial gatherings of both Republicans and Democrats".
This was a gathering of friends, both Sunni and Shia, to discuss the important and the mundane over a cup of coffee.
Worse yet in the category of "what should have been left wild" are the gathering of essays, Both Flesh and Not, which, again, is made up of pieces brilliant in the way we expect Wallace to be singularly Wallace, but also not quite carrying him there, and this time not because he has passed but because they are minor items.
As Islamists have tightened their grip on northern Mali over the past year, the American military has expanded spying operations in the region in the hope of gathering intelligence both about the strength of the militants and about their connections to tribal groups in Mali and elsewhere across North Africa.
It is a tribal gathering, of sorts, for both successful and aspiring American photographers.
The two chiefs, Duncan L. Niederauer, top left, of NYSE Euronext and Reto Francioni, bottom, of Deutsche B?, will meet in New York as part of a regularly scheduled gathering of executives from both companies.
The two-and-a-half hour show was an outdoor gathering of his flock, both onstage and off, as Mr. Pizzarelli led the audience in humorous call-and-response renditions of standards to which everyone seemed to know the words.
However, at the Sunstone Salt Lake Symposium, a gathering of followers from both mainstream and fundamentalist Mormonism held in Utah this July, Winston complained about the government's continued efforts to prosecute him.
There is a hair-raising photograph of the four Marxes in their youth (reproduced in a book that Diamond wrote about his quest, "Gimme A Thrill") that shows them hungry and beautiful and looking exactly like either an anarchist cell or a gathering of Futurist painters, or maybe both.
That we need to stop denying the 'shit' and instead come to grips with it, embrace it, and have a resurrection into a new a way of living?" Hopefully there is a sense of something looming in the gathering heat of both parts — a storm, à la Giorgione's "Tempest"?
