Crossing the parking lot to the entrance of the new Coyote Bar & Grill in Carlsbad's Village Faire center involves an act of faith that calm waits behind the door, since the band playing to the assembled twentysomethings on the outdoor terrace rocks loudly enough to rattle the stars.
From his home he hosted social evenings every two months where rolls were played for the assembled guests.
Gibbs, a short, wiry man who never played the game, assembled teams that compiled a 177-35 record and won seven state championships.
Now, that would be a story, wouldn't it?" It was Wednesday afternoon, the eve of the 2009 Open, and Watson was playing the comedian with the assembled press.
Some are gamely playing up for the assembled press, showing off circus skills and generally clowning around.
Then there's the matter of Chelsea's countless bougie swank-pits--clubs that prioritise the wine list over the DJ, and red trousered blokes called Jonty try to get their hands in the knickers of vacuous Cressidas while "Timber" plays, and the assembled throng snort their way through a small nation's GDP in awful coke.
As the actors playing the rock luminaries gradually assemble onstage, each bearing a modest resemblance to the fabled performer he is portraying, a faint air of the animatronic threatens to settle over the proceedings.
Mr Berlusconi schmoozed with the guests of honour (merrily referring to one of them as "George Dubya"), played the piano for the assembled bigwigs, told them the story of the founding of Rome (and jovially muddled up the founders' names), congratulated NATO's secretary-general, Lord Robinson (ie, Robertson), on his navy-blue tie.
Sometimes someone brings a trumpet and plays a fanfare, and the assembled riders, if inspired, will set off in one direction or another, spreading from the park and into the city grid, rendering each street they enter momentarily impervious to through traffic.
Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech played several times to the assembled vigil on the quad.
