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...wilderness, suffers the stigmata and can cure the incurable by the laying on of hands. Otherwise, though, he's a cool dude. He likes girls, shows no particular interest in spreading any sort of gospel and turns a politely bemused face toward the hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts to drift out of the rehab center where he has taken refuge. Among his would-be exploiters are a sometime revivalist (Christopher Walken), now reduced to selling used RVs and aluminum siding; a Catholic fundamentalist (Tom Arnold), prepared to enforce a return...
...been another hot year for consumer electronics, one that saw Toshiba release an impressive desktop PC, Sony take a first crack at a personal computer and a swarm of companies come out with hand-held devices, including the first really usable palm-top computer from U.S. Robotics. The year also included the nearly incessant squeal of Internet hype--and a stock market that couldn't get enough of hot-concept technology issues. It was all enough to send droves of Americans out to buy...a game machine...
When cops gather at a press conference to announce the arrest of Wall Street crooks, the swarm of officials on the podium is enough to violate the fire code. In the 1980s, then U.S. Attorney (and now New York City mayor) Rudolph Giuliani would lead an entourage befitting a heavyweight boxing champ...
With the start of the school year, we find ourselves amid a swarm of students in the depths of the Science Center or Sever Hall. No longer are we distinct individuals. Instead, suddenly we are all one mass of faceless creatures in whose direction professors direct their words. From the direction of the podium or even among the very mass, we blend. In short, we are anonymous...
...community spirit of the event was nearly overwhelmed by the preponderance of local government representatives, around whom hovered a modest swarm of TV news cameras...