Dressed in a charcoal suit and waistcoat, he makes a quiet speech of thanks to the 40-odd assembled members – film-makers, theatre directors, photographers, musicians and the like – and approves the latest statutes for the federation.
The 30-odd assembled guests at the funeral look up at the sky as the thick underbelly of an AC-130 passes overhead.
It was a furiously odd thing, assembled from sweet nineteen-eighties R. & B. and nailed shut by Doom's glottal, pained rhymes.
Having sat through a season that had thus far been filled with utter misery (one win in the last 23 matches in all competitions, a regular room in the relegation zone motel), fifty-odd thousand assembled voices seized their chance to sing "HSV, forever and ever", and swing flags bearing the team's mute and oddly mesmerising diamond logo with unequivocal ardour.
And then we'll see which of those are odd and assemble those into a list.
That odd cast was assembled by the builders of Casa Casuarina, who named their eccentric apartment house after a Somerset Maugham short-story collection, "The Casuarina Tree".
Next, Perkinson tried to determine how Gauguin assembled this odd work.
Working with Pnau's Nick Littlemore, he has cut back on the theatrics – though he can't quite stifle the odd falsetto shriek – and assembled buoyant electro swirls and layers into plush club-pop.
A staff member, Donna Klumpp, said there's not much art in this country from the former Portuguese colonies & they think the 100-odd pieces they've assembled is the cream.
Linda was my girlfriend then and she was always assembling odd combinations of people to back her, including me sometimes.
The meeting will be like a trade fair: thousands of politicians, policymakers, businesses, lobbyists, civil society representatives, media and the odd thinktanker will assemble for a dizzying smorgasbord of side events and private and public meetings.
