Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fisher (Joan Plowright), a crusty matron, was once an intimate of Ruskin and Rossetti, as she will remind you without prompting. Lady Caroline (Polly Walker) might be a pre-Raphaelite princess, but adrift in the jazz age and bored by the clammy attentions men pay her. The others, Lottie (Josie Lawrence) and Rose (Miranda Richardson), are trussed in marriages that seem more like mergers. Lottie's husband, an attorney, wants her to be a housemaid and party ornament. Rose's husband, a writer, wants her to stay at home, out of his lightly lecherous way, and tend the emptiness...
Rosovsky said Marquand "sort of rescued" manyDudley affiliates who felt adrift in the Harvardcommunity...
...whole culture in crisis. The Kirov, like virtually all the major performing troupes in the former Soviet Union -- the Bolshoi and countless folk and choral groups -- is struggling to survive in a parlous new era. When the communist regime dissolved and the economy collapsed, these institutions were cast adrift. The Kirov's subsidy was cut from 95% of its budget to 35%, and it will sink lower. Gergiev has the double task of keeping his treasure functioning at all and at the same time hauling it from the timeless miasma of Soviet bureaucracy into the tough entrepreneurial world...
...park outside, a courtroom guard smokes. His girth betrays a career of inactivity; his eyes, nose, and mouth are adrift in an ocean of flesh. He says, "In that building, there are no secrets. If some judge is balling the secretary, everyone knows...
...discovery of the diary of a 19th century forebear, his life as the husband of an actress and his anguished puzzlement at his father's death and his mother's remarriage. A latter-day Hamlet, Unwin is driven mad by the sense that all of us are playacting, adrift in a world of "suppose...