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...slapshot by B.U. defenseman Joe Delory beat Marshall, hitting first the crossbar and then the right post. The goal judge's light went on, bringing a sellout Boston Garden crowd of 14,451 to its feet and a swarm of disagreeing Northeastern players around Holden...
...Spencer's handling of these images leaves the reader conscious at every moment of a high skill and intelligence - indeed, perhaps too conscious. Individual scenes are admirable, as when Arnie's hapless rival Lex, visiting the sanctum of Arnie's island, seeks an epiphany in a swarm of butterflies ("a world of translucent amber, the dazzle of deep dimension, pulsing...
Chiefly when, just after that Vermont rebound, Duncan came up with the play of the game, stealing the ball at midcourt and drawing a swarm of Vermont fouls...
Bohemianism did not attract him. He went to Paris in the late 1920s and found it "invaded by such a swarm of artists, writers, students, dilettanti, sightseers, debauchees and plain idlers as the world has probably never seen. In some quarters of the town the so-called artists must actually have outnumbered the working population . . ." He took a job as a dishwasher in a Paris hotel, a member of the working population 13 hours...
...swarm of software firms are writing programs that give many brands of computers a window on the world. Quarterdeck Office Systems, a Santa Monica, Calif., company, has announced DesQ, a $395 window program that can run up to ten programs on the screen simultaneously. Several other products are scheduled to be introduced in the next few months. But the real battle is expected to be between the versions developed by VisiCorp and Microsoft, two of the oldest players in personal computer software...