Areas where no troops were seen less than a week ago had become teeming military camps, with buses regularly dropping off new arrivals.
The program had more than hit its stride by this point, and the Simpsons' hometown, Springfield, has become a metropolis teeming with well-defined supporting characters, a rare example of a fully formed comic world.
In the lowlands, art became a second world, teeming with interior life.
Thanks to Mr. Gandolfini's empathetic genius, Tony became an American creature teeming with an unmasterable inner life that could not be blogged, posted, updated or tweeted.
At 8 p.m., Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 505-3474, lepoissonrouge.com; $20. (Woolfe) Resonant Bodies Festival (Friday and Saturday) The ShapeShifter Lab becomes a petri dish teeming with odd and interesting life forms in this festival of contemporary vocal music.
With little ocean circulation to flush it clean, the 1.3-mile-long canal has essentially become a liquid compost pile, teeming with marine life and bacteria, but stinky, and unloved by people who walk next to or paddle in it.
Campo San Stefano 2847, San Marco, +39 041 240 7711, palazzofranchetti.it, lunch only, closed Saturday and Sunday The corner of Cannaregio that runs along the quayside of the Misericordia and Ormesini canals has become Venice's nightlife hub, teeming with partygoers from sunset onwards.
For these home buyers, the burgeoning eco-tourism trend of forsaking casinos and cruise lines in favor of a canoe or a canopy of trees teeming with birds has become more than a vacation.
Once teeming with lion, it became a white farming area after white hunters shot the last one here in the early 1900s.
Silos teeming with corn, wheat or soybeans become death traps when grain cascades out of control, asphyxiating or crushing their victims.
What had been pristine swampland teeming with birdlife and water buffalos had become the vast baked pan of an empty desert.
