Word: swarmming
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...They kind of swarm all over Harvard Square...like insects or something," junior Liz Arkush says. "I remember going to Store 24 at one point during the weekend, and there were all these Andover kids going, 'Wow, this is so wild, this is just like the Store 24 at home...
...Monday afternoon, the fiction writing seminar's introductory meeting has just ended, and a swarm of students surrounds visiting lecturer Jamaica Kincaid, heaping praise on the lanky writer...
HOUSTON--Peering around the convention floor yesterday morning, John Loza '85 couldn't help but notice the swarm of more than 1500 college students walking the aisles with their spirited shout, "four more years...
...mosquito, it seems, is essentially a tiny winged speck of libido. Here's what typically happens: the males form a hovering globular swarm, ranging from a softball-size band of a dozen to a ballroom-size throng of millions. To any female that may be around, the male buzzing sound is like a neon sign in front of a singles bar. She makes a beeline -- all right, a mosquitoline -- straight into the swarm. Once she's inside, the sound of her wings, beating 250 to 500 times a second, becomes the mosquito equivalent of a flirty hair flip. The males...
...which may sound very grand, but the reality is harrowing. For the Kirov is a company in crisis, and the swarm of challenges it faces makes it emblematic of a whole culture in crisis. The Kirov, like virtually all the major performing troupes in the former Soviet Union -- the Bolshoi and countless folk and choral groups -- is struggling to survive in a parlous new era. When the communist regime dissolved and the economy collapsed, these institutions were cast adrift. The Kirov's subsidy was cut from 95% of its budget to 35%, and it will sink lower. Gergiev...