Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gather that the three men, including Raphael, Ambassador to France from the Republic of Miranda, make a profit on the sly by smuggling cocaine across French customs in the diplomatic pouch. Raphael is also engaged in illicit though indifferent, lovemaking with his friend Francois's blond wife. Supposed terrorists pursue Raphael, who disposes of them as callously as he does the affairs of his state. Later all three couples are released from imprisonment on a drug trafficking charge by a discreet phone call from the French secretary, whom Raphael quickly invites to visit his country in return for the favor...
Demonstrators in Boston will gather in Copley Square at noon and march to the Boston Common bandstand where the main rally will begin at about...
...said much of the money is spent supporting volunteers who gather the signatures small parties need to be listed on the ballot...
...delegates from six Common Market countries and the three that will join them in January will gather for a summit meeting at Paris' Hotel Majestic this week with a conspicuous lack of pomp. No parades will march up the Champs-Elysées; no balls will be held at Versailles; there will be nothing to equal the splendor the French lavished within the past year on the visits of Leonid Brezhnev and Queen Elizabeth. Indeed, the only glitter will come from a modest gala in the Elysée Palace's gilt-and-tapestry Salle...
...usually most of the movies-this year more than half of the 24 selections-have been booked into American theaters anyway. Thus the New York festival, now in its tenth year, is primarily a social occasion. It has become an annual two-week ritual for movie buffs to gather in the lobbies of Lincoln Center, trade gossip, champion favorite films and, inevitably, castigate the witlessness of the selection committee, whose choices, nevertheless, were both diverse enough and shrewd enough to guarantee sellout houses. Among the more notable...