HISTORIANS in modern India sometimes accuse the British of having used divide-and-rule tactics to keep the country's teeming millions under the thumb of a few thousand foreigners.
And even under teeming skies, it is a fair bet the fan who paid 500 euros, or about $655, for a black-market ticket thought it worth the price.
The suggestion is that the magic of the event will have the city's most under-privileged neighbourhoods teeming with Alf Tuppers all eating their five a week and tipping their cloth caps to the foreman for letting them off early from their shift at the foundry so that they can compete for the local Harriers.
The ground went quiet under the teeming rain as the away fans bellowed and danced.
Conceived and directed by Anna G. Jones and written by Roweena Mackay, the play is a teeming mosaic, miraculously kept under two hours, with many actors in multiple roles.
But as a microcosm of the teeming activity that falls under the broad umbrella of the new-music rubric, the Music of Now Marathon, a recently instituted annual event at Symphony Space, does nicely.
Lucia's lifelong love of rivers led to her choice of living on the Indian River, and so it was appropriate that she passed from this life while looking out over the estuary and its ever-changing weather and teeming wildlife, all enacted under sunny skies, huge thunder clouds, or a blanket of stars.
The son and grandson of sculptors, he had dabbled precociously in the medium in his youth but had returned to it only in 1926, when he started to make his famous miniaturized "Circus," the teeming rendition of life under the big top executed in wire, wood, paint and bits of fabric that became a hit in avant-garde circles on both sides of the Atlantic.
The jungle of some far-off land, the trail of the lonesome pine, or the miniature world of teeming life and growing moss under a rock at the bottom of your garden?
