Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business successes to "his daddy's friends," calling him "that young Bush boy" and once, a "jerk." Yet Bush has stayed calm, politely staking out positions to her right on crime, welfare and the size of government. Against this, Richards, who is said to genuinely dislike Bush, appears adrift. Says Austin political consultant Bill Miller, who has worked for both parties: "Ann Richards is in serious trouble. Bush is taking the fight to her. She's on the ropes and getting hit all over...
With Lake, O'Brien manages what he does best, which is to find the boy scout in the foot soldier, and the foot soldier in every reader. No one writes better about the fear and homesickness of a boy adrift amid what he cannot understand, be it combat or love. O'Brien shows us Wade as a lonely, pudgy 10- year-old, practicing magic tricks before the mirror, hoping to conjure a callous father's love out of thin air. "The mirror made his father smile all the time. The mirror made the vodka bottles vanish from their hiding place...
...Metropolitan, released in 1990, he created an engaging circle of Manhattan debs and preppies, enthralled by their own obsolescence. In Barcelona, on a larger canvas, Stillman paints a sympathetic portrait of two Americans -- Ted (Taylor Nichols), a genteel businessman, and his snarkier cousin, Fred (Chris Eigeman), a naval officer -- adrift in Spain during what the film, with beguiling pomposity, calls "the last decade of the cold...
...such explosions have become spectator events. In theory, this rush of instantaneous sightings should be a boon to human understanding; the more we notice, the wiser we become. In practice, such cascades of images can prove deracinating. The mind is cut adrift by what the eyes provide...
HAITI: A Foreign Policy Adrift...