Word: gathering
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Whereas movies and music once built an audience slowly, entertainment is now disposable, designed to gather a heterogeneous society together for one week and then fade away. We have become a first-week culture...
...Last year, the government quietly agreed to compensate injured ex-spies and families of agents who never returned. But the more than 2,200 men and women who went north and came back physically unscathed, like Kim Su Chan, got nothing. When he returned from a mission to gather intelligence in 1961, he expected to collect the money his recruiters had promised him. Instead, Seoul accused him of working for the North Koreans. They let him go but kept him under surveillance, and he couldn't get a job because the police interrogated anybody who hired him. He eventually retreated...
...Slow News Day," stars Katharine Washington, a young, self-confident, smartly dressed San Francisco native whose English mother has arranged an internship at the Mercury. Katharine mostly takes the job to gather color for the screenplay she hopes to sell. Assigned to assist Owen Holmes, the paper's lone, grumpy reporter, the two of them spark like wet leaves. "How do you spell 'centre,'" he demands by way of greeting. Meanwhile his girlfriend, the head of ad sales at the paper, impatiently waits for him to move out of his dad's house and into hers. Against a fascinating glimpse...
...house was key to their ability to gather informally. “It’s hard to hang out randomly,” Harrington says. “It’s presented a logistical problem...
...They say this is the largest group ever to gather for Springfest and I’m glad it’s true,” he said...