Fittingly, the hub of the action was often Williams.
While sometimes derided as just a talk fest, the UNFCCC is the hub of global action on climate change.
In the world of this play, Mr. Stewart's Lyman rules; everyone seems more connected when he's at the hub of the action.
The hub of the action is the Grand Salon, where exquisite Parisians chatter over tea or a long lunch amid objets d'art.
The hub of the action is C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va., where Conklin, a thin-lipped bureaucrat (Chris Cooper) and his nervous, P.R.-minded boss (Brian Cox) are attempting some deadly damage control.
Fresh from a stint with Miles Davis, the bassist Dave Holland recorded his début as a leader with a quartet that included two generations of saxophone masters, Sam Rivers (one of the fathers of free jazz, whose NoHo loft was a hub of musical action at the time) and Anthony Braxton (who, like Holland, was in his mid-twenties), as well as the young drummer Barry Altschul.
After excelling aboard Village Vic in last week's big handicap chase at Cheltenham, Johnson is again at the hub of the action at Ascot this afternoon when a full book of rides includes big chances in the three main events, starting with Reve De Sivola, who attempts a fourth successive victory in the Grade One Long Walk Hurdle.
Henley-on-Thames may only have a population of 11,000 but the town is fast becoming a hub of festival action in Oxfordshire.
Mr. Purefoy, an attractive screen presence forced to do a lot of glowering, makes a solid center in a largely appealing ensemble that includes Derek Jacobi as Reginald de Cornhill, whose Rochester castle serves as the hub of the bloody action.
The informal space (which displays the Surge avatar and its physical surroundings) augments the formal representations, but the Cartesian graphs are the hub of all planning, action, and reflection.
