Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Henry Mauldin, editorial cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Mauldin's cauldron, the heat creates light-in the form of inspiration for his drawing board. The water of his bath is roiled with national and international crises, and in the rising steam swarm the wraithlike figures of politicians, statesmen and world leaders. While his skin turns lobster-red and he blisters his insides with coffee from a king-size cup, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin is hard at work...
Hollywood has hung out a sign: VACANCY. The old local custom of film making has all but disappeared, and a swarm of travelers in MarcoPolaroid sunglasses have gone off to wander the earth seeking low overhead and finding high adventure. Both U.S. and European companies are working on location everywhere from the Middle East to the Greater Antilles. If the final results may often seem dull as Hoboken on the screen, there is plenty of color in the making of the films. Current examples...
...More than 1,800 kinds of edible fish swarm in Brazil's waters, but Brazilians still open Portuguese sardine tins, and they imported tuna until last year...
Despite its dramatic failings, La Dolce Vita contains some of the most imaginative and skillful cinematography I have ever seen. The sleazy crowd of photographers that hovers around Marcello's car moves like a swarm of unspeakable vermin...
After graduation, Unruh barged into the maelstrom of Southern California politics, soon made a name for himself as a tough, liberal Democrat with a talent for back room profanity. In 1954 he was elected to the assembly. Eying the swarm of free-spending Sacramento lobbyists, Unruh decided that they could be put to systematic practical use. He became a one-man collection agency, spreading the lobbyists' largesse among deserving Democrats for their campaign chests. To cries that such practice is unethical, Unruh simply snorts: "If you can't take what the lobbyists offer and still vote against them...