Well, they’ve been gone for 17 years and we’ve been warned.
I’m not talking about the “Friends” reunion on HBO Max at the end of this month. I mean locusts, as in the voracious insects so all-consuming that they’ve popped up in everything from the Old Testament (as one of the 10 Plagues) to “Days of Heaven” (in which they underscored the Biblical subtext of Terrence Malick’s 1978 movie).
“The Day of the Locust,” the 1975 film based on Nathaniel West’s 1939 novel, actually…