Word: swarmming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gravy-Sucking Bulldogs," read the crimson banner above the Union mantlepiece. "Impale Yale" proclaimed hundreds of crimson baseball caps. "Lock Yale in the Stocks" declared thousands of crimson placards. And as a swarm of crimson balloons soared to the ceiling of the Freshman Union at yesterday's Yale game pep rally, one word characterized the scene, and it was not "blue...
Early in the second quarter Eliot came back with a drive of its own. The big gainers were a Mike Eliot reverse that went for eight yards and a burst off right tackle by fullback Mark Adley that gained another 20. Randy Yanker then followed a swarm of blockers around left end for 26 yards and the tally...
THROUGHOUT the opening of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith director Fred Schepisi continually dissects static tableaus. The camera suddenly cuts from the scene at hand to a minute corner of the picture: In the lapse of conversation suddenly one is looking at a swarm of termites on a windowsill. A domestic portrait gives way to an extreme closeup of a rusty knife cutting through bread--the sound suddenly amplified and grating. Idyllic farm panoramas are interrupted with scenes of chicken roosters being slaughtered, huge shears go through sheep's wool, the camera slowly absents itself from a sermon and creeps...
...partisans, however, it appeared that the referee had stopped the fight on his own, and that he had done so unfairly. While Hagler celebrated his victory by dropping to his knees a la Bjorn Borg, the spectators took a different view, and showered the ring with beer bottles. A swarm of Bobbies surrounded Hagler and ushered him to safety...
...someone with the demeanor of an itinerant bum, the slouchy ambience of some Kerouac nomad, Waits has immersed himself in a demanding swarm of projects, committing his time and talents to a busy horde of movers and shakers. Apart from his current fall/winter tour and the Heart Attack and Vine LP (to be recorded with producer Bones Howe in early January), several motion picture forays are under way. One is a script co-written with writer/actor Paul Hampton called Why Is the Dream So Much Sweeter Than the Taste? "It's about a used car dealer in Southern California...