Word: gathering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Camp Ramdi's morgue sits a short distance away from Brown's hospital. On nights when dead U.S. servicemen and women lay inside, troops gather in darkness outside the doors in formation for what they call a "heroes' ceremony." The dead, wrapped in black body bags, are carried from the morgue, past rows of troops standing at attention, and loaded into ambulances. The troops then follow the ambulances in silence as they drive slowly to a nearby helicopter pad. There the bodies are placed onto lumbering Chinook helipcopters and begin a long journey from Ramadi to the places where they...
...stuff of which Lynch films are made. A script? Not so much. Because he's considered an auteur, Lynch was able to convene a cast, including Jeremy Irons and Harry Dean Stanton, before he wrote Empire. "I'd get an idea for a scene, write the scene, gather people together and shoot that scene," says Lynch. "I didn't know if the second scene would relate to the first or the third." This is where Lynch's decades-long commitment to transcendental meditation--which he documents in a new book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity--came...
There's precious little light in Iceland during the winter, which makes the upper latitudes ideal for viewing the northern lights--especially on New Year's Eve. In Reykjavík, Icelanders gather around dozens of massive bonfires to sing traditional folk songs accompanied, according to local legend, by trolls, fairies and elves. (Iceland's Tourist Board claims that 80% of Icelanders believe in little beings.) At midnight the city explodes in a massive fireworks display. The dancing and partying that follow last until the sun comes up, which in Iceland is at about lunchtime...
These campus restaurants could even create diverse communities of their own: Science majors may gather in the Greenhouse after Organic Chemistry while Literature concentrators may continue their in-class intellectual discourse while standing in line in the Barker Café. These smaller communities would not take away from House communities; rather, they would develop in addition to the existing House communities...
...late Saturday night after a prankster sprayed a fire extinguisher, flooding the entryway with powdery chemicals and leaving students searching for a place to sleep for the night. Cambridge firefighters responded to an alarm in Eliot’s D entryway at around 2 a.m. yesterday, causing residents to gather outside the building. After about 30 minutes outside, tutors informed the residents of D entryway that they would not be allowed back into their rooms—and told a frigid crowd that any student found in the closed entryway would be arrested. The 34 displaced students were left...