Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie star. When this odd couple first start fooling around there are some amusing cross-cultural jokes, as well as touching erotic interludes in dreamy Riviera locales. But the affair quickly becomes a high-toned soap opera that devours the movie. By the end, the hero and heroine are adrift at sea in a stalled motorboat, screaming platitudes at each other. The scene looks like a parody of Lina Wertmuller, but not, alas, an intentional...
Love songs like diary notes stuffed in a bottle and set adrift; quick, clenched passages of autobiography set down before the wounds heal and while the wit is still fresh. All in three-part harmony, mind...
...widely held among intellectuals, of barbarously overarmed Americans, a nation of William Galleys, doing battle against the frail, gentle, long-suffering Vietnamese. Cimino's victims are the rambunctious guys from Clairton, blue-collar heroes who took their wholesome patriotism to Viet Nam and there found themselves alone, morally adrift among savage Southeast Asian exotics who are forever forcing them to play Russian roulette. There is no record or recollection, incidentally, that the game was ever played during the American years in Viet Nam, although some old hands recall a few episodes...
While the Coast Guard watches Alaska's "growlers," British scientists are tracking something bigger: a 768-sq.-mi. Antarctic iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic and heading slowly for Africa. But the penguin-inhabited berg, 36 times the size of Bermuda, poses no threat to shipping; it should break up and melt as it hits warmer waters...
...Gerard terminates AIP funding he will "cut adrift" ten doctoral candidates and about 15 other students currently enrolled in the program, Ryan said. The eight-year-old Education School program is the only one in the country designed to train Indians in the field of education, he added...