Word: gathering
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This authorial cheerleading causes some problems. Magda's losing battle with ovarian cancer is movingly portrayed, but her charismatic brilliance -- insisted upon by the worshippers who gather at her bedside -- remains elusive. One of her mots, about marriage, is deemed deep enough to serve as an epigraph to the novel: "Mates are not always matches, and matches are not always mates." Food for thought, perhaps, but only to the very hungry. As for Hugo, he gives lectures, largely left to the imagination, that provoke women and men to hug him afterward. And a rather vapid remark he makes comparing...
Then the last of the parents leave town, and the cumulus clouds begin to gather...
...past years, the recreation room was a special place for video game aficionados, who would gather together nightly to share tips and meet friends...
Galletti, who worked there, recalls the room as a place where first-years would gather during reading period to relax and remembers it as a good place to spend time
Earlier in the week, Pope John Paul II canceled a planned one-day visit to Sarajevo, hours after Bosnian Serb artillery rounds pounded the besieged Bosnian capital. Citing concerns for the safety of the tens of thousands expected to gather to hear him celebrate Mass, the Pontiff said he hoped to visit Sarajevo "as soon as circumstances permit...