For Gianluca Violante, a young macroeconomist, what transpired among the recruits was "a critical-mass effect.
What transpires among the three nameless principal characters is, the filmmakers have always maintained, up to you to figure out.
Senator Clinton said she and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut had written to President Bush, asking for a "thorough and expeditious accounting of what transpired" among White House officials.
Instead, the characters (the flawless cast includes Dan O'Herlihy, Helena Carroll, Donal Donnelly, Marie Kean and Ingrid Craigie) and all that transpires among them — the social niceties, buried desires, disappointments — seem to coalesce naturally on the screen.
But Senator Clinton and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut sent a letter late last month to President Bush, asking for a "thorough and expeditious accounting of what transpired" among White House officials by Sept. 5.
What transpires among these characters is, in retrospect, quite predictable, but the director and his dedicated cast manage to keep the story, and the audience, off balance for most of the movie.
The collaborative planning and execution can transpire among teams working within the same organization, or among those whose resources are dispersed between two or more companies.
Once I got the sense that every "Arrested Development" episode was largely a laborious device meant to connect one set of plot points to another set of plot points, it was hard to feel engaged by anything that transpired among the human beings on the screen.
What conversations and disagreements transpired between and among Donald, his three siblings, and Katharine Weymouth, are, for the moment, a fog.
Throughout, endless squabbling and plotting and frequent combat transpired between or among monarchs and parliaments; Roman Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans; and Scots, Irish and English.
