Locusts
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The plot, or so it is, has to do with a bunch of teenagers on a road trip to who cares when their car gets attacked by a swarm of very phony looking
locusts
or something (if you watch close enough there is a cut where the characters are swatting and squirming and screaming but there aren't actually
locusts
in that cut.
It's really a classical adventure movie, with princesses and scimitars and sandstorms and swarms of
locusts.
I knew the whole concept of
LOCUSTS
taking over the world was a bit far fetched, but, I was willing to go for the ride.
giant rapacious sharks, carnivorous locusts, dragons, cursed angels...all paraded past us in indifferently written, cheaply produced fashion.
You can hear the
locusts
in the background.
For example, in an early scene when Adamson returns to Britain and is feted at a private ball, instead of using authentic music to nail the period effect and introduce all the elegant and subtle feelings that run beneath the Victorian surface, Balanescu concocts a drone that is an explicit imitation of
locusts.
Iliescu’s first term were years that the
locusts
ate: reform lagged behind most Central European countries, corruption flourished, rabid nationalists barked, the government called in loyalist thugs from the mines to beat up people who protested.
Truly, these were years that the
locusts
ate.
He accused entrepreneurs who outsource production to low-wage countries of showing excessive greed and lack of social responsibility, and he compared the managers of international equity funds to a plague of
locusts
that occupy companies, exploit them, and move on after their destructive work is done.
The years since, however, were eaten by
locusts.
Whether caused by drought, exhausted soils, locusts, lack of high-yield seeds, the results were the same: desperation, disease, and death.
Mao Zedong’s rash decree in 1958 to eliminate China’s “pestilent” sparrows led to the proliferation of grain-eating locusts, diminishing yields and contributing to a famine that led to more than 20 million deaths.
Invoking the Book of Exodus, he went on to say that, “We are stricken by no plague of locusts.”
The population of
locusts
ballooned, contributing to a famine that claimed around 30 million lives.
During the run-up to World War II, Winston Churchill, speaking in Parliament, lamented “the years that the
locusts
hath eaten” – the period during which preparatory action to face the great crisis of his day (the rise of Continental fascism) could have been taken, but was not.
Innovations in digital agriculture also can help farmers increase their yields and incomes by adopting locally suited seeds and fertilizer, protecting crops from diseases and pests (such as fall armyworm or locusts), adapting to climate change, selling at the best possible price, and accessing financial services.
All this is unfolding against the backdrop of a plague of
locusts
in Africa.
East African countries have been battling the worst outbreak of desert
locusts
in decades.
The fact that some of these consequences – including wildfires, cyclones, and even a plague of
locusts
in Africa – have dramatically appeared in the same year as COVID-19 would seem to reinforce the message.
Mr. Wharton withdrew to the Locusts, with a heart rent with the pain of separating from all that was left him of a wife he had adored, but in obedience to a constitutional prudence that pleaded loudly in behalf of his worldly goods.
Whenever the main army made any movements, Captain Wharton had, of course, accompanied it; and once or twice, under the protection of strong parties, acting in the neighborhood of the Locusts, he had enjoyed rapid and stolen interviews with his friends.
Jeanette and Sarah took charge of the Locusts, and this little girl was my companion, in captivity."
In the deep recesses of the windows of the cottage were seats of paneled work; and the rich damask curtains, that had ornamented the parlor in Queen Street, had been transferred to the Locusts, and gave to the room that indescribable air of comfort, which so gratefully announces the approach of a domestic winter.
His visits to the
Locusts
had become less frequent, and his appearance at his own abode so seldom, as to draw forth from the disappointed Katy, in the fullness of her heart, the complaint we have related, in her reply to Harper.
A short communication with the loquacious housekeeper followed the arrival of the main body of the troop, and the advance party remounting, the whole moved towards the
Locusts
with great speed.
This arrangement was hastily and imperfectly completed, as the dragoons entered the lawn and orchard of the Locusts, riding with the rapidity of the wind; and in their turn the Whartons were surrounded.
"He would make no bad ornament, suspended from one of those
locusts
before his own door," added the lieutenant.
Here the highway crossed it by a rough wooden bridge, as it did again at the distance of half a mile above the
Locusts.
The lawn in front of the
Locusts
was hidden from the view of the road by a close line of shrubbery, and the horses of the two dragoons had been left, linked together, under its shelter, to await the movements of their masters.
When the fortune of the day was decided, and the time arrived for the burial of the dead, two Cowboys and a Virginian were found in the rear of the Locusts, to be included in the number.
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