Word: bottleneck
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...block its advance, the report recommends setting up a kind of anti-bee Maginot Line across the natural bottleneck of Central America. All it would take is the development of a completely new species whose dominant traits would make it "relatively unaggressive, nonswarming, nonmigratory and equal to the Brazilian bee in foraging activity." This "genetic barrier" would in effect tame the Brazilian bee by breeding out the worst qualities...
...even if you connect it with some summer refuge from the uneasy aimlessness that attended those Cambridge days, then your path has crossed Jeffrey Golden's. He has ridden the elevators up and down Holyoke Center, and he has walked quickly past the panhandlers who command the brickwalk bottleneck between the J. August storefront and the subway entrance on Mass. Ave. But in May 1970--wandering around an almost deserted Harvard and realizing that an organization of intellectually disciplined college students can also be a gaggle of political dilettantes--Jeff Golden began his watermelon summer. Because...
...only elevators are in the center of the hotel. He could then have walked to the rear parking lot, where a Ford truck converted into an ambulance is always parked. Then he would have had to drive across the high, humpbacked Paradise Island bridge, which forms a narrow bottleneck between Paradise and the island of New Providence. On the return trip, he would have had to pass through a $2 toll gate. Leaving the island by boat would have been easier; he would probably have walked out the back of the Britannia to the beach on the ocean side...
...began to play guitar, imitating the choked "bottleneck" style of two older, semilegendary primitives, Eddie "Son" House and Robert Johnson. Around 1941, Folk Archivist Alan Lomax came to Clarksdale and recorded Muddy for the Library of Congress. That helped convince Muddy that he might be able to make it up North, where the factories had work, and a job was not called off if it rained. As Muddy once put it: "I came up to Chicago on a train. Alone. With a suitcase, one suit of clothes and a guitar...
...second act comes a more sustained triumph. As the four central characters (or eight, since each character is seen as two people) reach a bottleneck in trying to resolve their pasts and their futures, the lights come up, the set changes, and the grim shattered playhouse is transformed into the gaudy palace of yesteryear. Follies becomes an old Follies show itself. The follies of the characters are now expressed in terms of the old prewar musical until finally the follies and the Follies merge into one surrealistic nightmare. The play within the play (titled "Loveland") is as depressing as anything...