Word: swarmming
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...vast land he and his group are dreamily yet viciously floating through, starving as the Indians grow bolder. In the end, no one is left but Aguirre, who is last seen shouting his plan for the conquest of the entire continent to the indifferent jungle, as hundreds of marmosets swarm over his waterlogged raft...
...They swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, manipulating the outside world by remote control. They are in all of us; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is a main reason for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines...
...center of the rock swarm was the Troubadour, a dank Santa Monica Boulevard bar that offered newcomers three-song auditions on Monday nights. Fast talkers who knew they needed only ballpoint pens and promising new groups to become record company executives jostled in the Troub's murk with finger snappers who knew they needed only luck and chord books to become rock musicians. The Poneys wangled a gig at the Troubadour. They had hit the small time, but they were rock musicians...
Garcia Marquez may disappoint those who are looking for The Return of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Instead of creating a swarm of characters, he has really animated only the Patriarch, whose monologue distills all other voices. And rather than using his blunt, ironic prose, he has fashioned an elaborate rhetoric that washes everything into a flow of phrases and thoughts...
...ticket at the 1951 Festival of Britain at which it transported more than 2 million passengers; it is now the puffing pride of Toronto, installed at the Ontario Science Center. The Gentleman's Flying Machine is powered by a Wandering Hot Air Brazier and "a swarm of underslung butterflies providing a trivial lift to the nose section...