Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Genteel Dropout. Except for scholars, libraries and a few former English majors now adrift in commerce, these disclosures alone do not justify the coffee-table price fixed on the book by its publishers. Pound was a good editor, as well as the best and most generous teacher and preacher of modern poetic practice ever. Eliot had already started cutting radically, and Pound cut to the bone, giving The Waste Land pace and density. But except for a score of lines, part of a much longer description of a sea voyage that Pound cut from the "Death by Water" section...
Drifting Downward. U.S. Administration officials saw the Japanese decision to set the yen adrift among the world's currencies as a tangible sign that the Nixon moves are succeeding-but they emphasized that it was no more than a first step. European reaction to the Japanese announcement, which came within hours of the close of business Friday, was a mixture of surprise and bewilderment. In West Germany the dollar had not declined in early trading. But as the week progressed, rumors began to circulate that the International Monetary Fund, the clearinghouse established at Bretton Woods in 1944, would eventually...
...jobs question, opponents of the guarantee noted that if the TriStar went down and Lockheed workers were cut adrift, there would be more work for people making the DC-10 and its General Electric engines-and perhaps also for Boeing, which is considering building a similar plane. Would it be fair for Washington to support Lockheed workers at the expense of others...
...film, seemed a throwback, a last effort to exorcise personal demons in a traditional story film. But the subsequent Shame is a vision completely externalized. The film begins in darkness; an alarm clock rings, bedroom shades are thrown open, and until the portrayed artist and his wife finally set adrift in a sea of war dead, the audience is enveloped in a dream objectified by the directness of Bergman's artistry. One recognizes the degree of control the filmmaker has exercised because his film is so concentrated, so perfectly removed from the real world where we don't hear sounds...
...that there isn't any hope in Five Easy Pieces. At one point, Robert, adrift in his father's house, expresses romantic interest in Katherine (Susan Anspach), his brother's fiance, who is also staying there. They play out all their little defensive games with each other, and, just as things seem at a standoff, Katherine asks Robert to sit down at the piano he had long ago abandoned and play her a piece...