Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only the youth who are adrift in doubt...
...national rail network and 37% of its work force will be eliminated. This means the loss of the Canadian and the end of an era. Additional cuts affect thousands of riders across Canada, and their reaction was loud and indignant. "They've cut the Maritimes and the prairies adrift," cried Charles Crosby, mayor of the Nova Scotian fishing town of Yarmouth. "The railway was one of the things that held us together...
...light, too, heightens the audience's sense that M has been cast adrift. Jerome Sirlin's innovative set makes use of a multitude of opaque and translucent screens upon which are projected images as diverse as primeval forests, alien spacecraft and New York City brownstones. The shifting patterns of light chase M around and dance with her in a malevolent pas de deux, whimsically trapping her and letting her go as her mood shifts from hope to despair. The light and sound join forces to overwhelm M, sometimes leaving her a helpless lump on the floor...
...ravaged her university's budget; Vic because of Rummidge's desperate rust-belt competition, which causes his firm to be taken over and him to get the sack; even Robyn's lover Charles because of the post-Big Bang financial speculations that lure him from academe and leave him adrift. This theme weighs a bit heavily on the book and keeps it from having quite the buoyancy and sparkle of Lodge's earlier campus novels, Small World and Changing Places. However, a pair of holdovers from those novels, the long-suffering Professor Philip Swallow and his American counterpart, the wheeler...
BUSINESS: The economy is adrift in the doldrums...