Word: swarmming
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...Your Hand, another Beatles-inspired movie, got a clammy reception three months ago. Notes MCA President Sid Sheinberg ruefully: "I liked it. There was only one thing wrong-nobody wanted to see it." Other big, new movies with this embarrassing ailment include Convoy, International Velvet, Big Wednesday and The Swarm...
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...still plays with the verve of a rookie delighting in his accomplishments. But through all the hoopla, he showed the canniness and instincts that have made him a consummate hitter. When Rose set the new National League record, Tommy Holmes rushed onto the field to congratulate him, and a swarm of photographers gathered to capture the moment. Rose smiled, shook hands and tipped his cap?all the while keeping one foot solidly planted on the bag. For 38 straight games, he had been a tough out, and even in his glory, Pete Rose was not about to stray from first...
...system, a ripe egg is expelled from its grapelike encasement, or follicle, in the ovary; in any month, either of the female's two ovaries may contribute an ovum. Then the egg enters the nearby fallopian tube. If coitus has taken place, the egg will shortly run into a swarm of tailed sperm that have managed, like salmon battling upstream, to fight their way into this passageway. In a dramatic headlong plunge, a single sperm will penetrate the waiting ovum's outer layer, its 23 chromosomes joining the egg's 23. That produces the full complement of 46 chromosomes, which...
Jaws II, The Swarm, and Grease--Our sources also tell us that these three films, none of which have any redeeming value (or even prurient interest) of their own, are being combined by a Hollywood genius. The plot? Simple--a gang of singing, dancing bees takes on a gang of man-eating sharks wearing denim jackets and greased-back incisors for the rights to Laguna Beach. Or something like that...