Mr. Magic gathered a sort of hip-hop collective that included artists like Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Roxanne and Kool G Rap, and was called the Juice Crew.
On a recent Sunday morning, five families gathered for a sort of homegrown service, without a pastor, at the Island Lake Chapel, near Wolford (population 35), where the original kerosene lanterns still hang from the ceiling.
Loomis has become separated from his own identity, as well as his wife, and the play gathers force in a sort of healing process, with a juba dance banged out on the kitchen table and Bynum delivering a great speech – that could serve as Wilson's own testament – of how he rescued a song that his father had given him and dredged it from his own memory and made it smooth.
TWO winters ago, with Israel mired in the bloody and unrelenting intifada, a group of leading politicians, artists, academics and rabbis gathered to draft a sort of peace treaty.
According to Kenyan and Somali news media, nearly 1,000 Shabab militants ordered local residents to gather and observe a sort of military parade in which the militants flaunted their armed might on land and sea, brandishing weapons and firing them from motorcycles and from speedboats off the coast.
The company that makes Pokémon offers another game in which players compete to gather "exotic matter", a sort of auratic excess that leaks into our world from portals around landmarks and famous buildings, a neat visual metaphor for the cultural power of special places.
As soon as it goes up on the social media platforms and the internet, there's a kind of landmark for all its adversaries to gather around and a sort of amplification that happens.
From what I gather, they have a sort of hit list of countries that they have to go and visit and, obviously, they might have an outfit to go and visit these places in: something that they're comfortable to go touristing in, but that's also smart.
And notice, too, how the courtoom has been arranged by the artist into a single, 6ft space – judge, lawyer and rosy-cheeked man whose job is to check Chaytor's tie for suspicious movements, all lovingly gathered together into a sort of posy of law, rendered in warm, easygoing pastels.
Now Sidekick owners who cannot resist using all those functions have found a way to gather the tribe: through a sort of communal Weblog, or blog, called Hiptop Nation.
