Word: swarmming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice President Walter Mondale proclaimed the Games open, and a jogging psychiatrist from Tucson lit the Olympic flame. Like a county fair run mildly amuck, the ceremonies then erupted with a swarm of released doves and helium-filled balloons, followed by the gentle flyby of two dozen immense hot-air balloons. It was fun, and the display left the crowd in an ebullient and expectant mood. As the spectators filed out, members of the American ski team were climbing onto one of the buses that had brought them from the Olympic Village. "Right on!" someone in the crowd cheered...
...change if you face a richly deserved conviction in a court case, but in Olympspeak it is a place where an athletic contest is held). Even the men's downhill, generally thought to be the most grandly lunatic of the Winter Games, drew less than a swarm. At the men's 30-km cross-country venue, the American spectators would have fit around a poker table or two. (Some 400 people rocked from one cold foot to the other, but most were Norwegian or Finnish officials...
Down 1-0, Harvard finally retaliated midway through period two. After wrestling the puck from a swarm of Cardinal defensemen, freshman Vicki Palmer passed it to winger Sue Yunick who flicked a shot past Wesleyan goaltender Melissa Hewey...
...equal partner in conspiracy. Chorus Line (Three Dandy Scuttlers), 1976, strikes a fine balance between whimsy-the flurried vaudevillian movement of the wooden legs-and presence, for there is something edgy and insect-like about these funny apparitions: they are cousins to the bugs and beasties that swarm in Miró's paintings...
...construction, and despite the fact that some 50,000 people are expected to swarm into Lake Placid during every day of competition, the 1980 Games involved no large-scale dislocation of the town's citizens, as happened in Montreal during the 1976 Summer Games. To be sure, a certain amount of displacement has occurred. A young clerk for the Lake Placid Organizing Committee was bumped from her $300-a-month apartment so that the landlord could rent it during February to wealthy snow bunnies for $4,000. Another story making the rounds has houses being purchased...