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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film's disenchanted young heroine, Claire (Solveig Dommartin), couldn't care less. Adrift on the highways between Venice and Paris with the loot from a bank robbery in the front seat of her car, Claire gives a ride to fellow traveller Sam Farber (William Hurt). She falls in love with him during their day-long trip to the French capitol. Only after she has dropped Farber off at his hotel does she realize that he has stolen her money...

Author: By Nora E. Connell, | Title: A Futuristic Journey With a Blockbuster Soundtrack | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

Immediately after the official tally, Treasurer Michael P. Beys '94, who held Reys' position last semester, said that the council had set Reyes position last semester, said that the council had set Reyes adrift...

Author: By Mark W. Brown, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Refuses to Fund Member's Trip | 2/11/1992 | See Source »

...wonder how did you get this way? How did this happen?" The kids felt the pain too. Brandon, a bright child with a sharp mind, hungered for attention and grew angry at times. Without any peers, Nicole, a pretty girl with a sweet smile and a quick wit, was adrift and alone. They had no friends, no neighborhood, no grandmother and little reason for hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Carolina: They're Home for Christmas | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...Angeles: Capital of the Third World, David Rieff says the U.S. has "stopped being an extension of Europe, and has, for better or worse, struck out on its own, an increasingly nonwhite country adrift, however majestically and powerfully, in an increasingly nonwhite world." Perhaps. Native Americans inhabited California before the European-Americans arrived, and the white civilization could prove evanescent. Maybe white Americans are simply redrawing their absolute perspectives. What the TV weather forecasters in Los Angeles call the "southland" is El Norte to Latin Americans. America's Far West is Japan's Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: It Is Still America's Promised Land -- | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

British travel writer Jonathan Raban is at his amiable best when his narrative is adrift, even awash. It is easy to see why. Sooner or later a professional journeyer meets boring people in tedious circumstances. Here the land-based pilgrim must lie entertainingly, which is hard work, or tell the ghastly truth. The writer who travels by boat need only conjure a storm, or describe his great relief that the weather is fine. The reader, charmed or alarmed, follows wide-eyed. Raban weathered bores effectively in Coasting, a wry account of a voyage around England in a small sailboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping A Weather Eye | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

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