Word: adrift
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Aaron Goodman's evocative illustration for Kadlec's essay--a picture of a forlorn citizen adrift in a rowboat and desperately seeking help--was inaccurate in one respect. Most of us don't even have the benefit of a paddle. ROBERT L. WOLKE Pittsburgh...
...slight stutter, an inability to pronounce the “th” sound and the gift of capturing a certain mood in millennial Western society where a person is more likely to be lonely than not, in love with love than with a person and feel adrift rather than anchored...
...slight stutter, an inability to pronounce the “th” sound and the gift of capturing a certain mood in millennial Western society where a person is more likely to be lonely than not, in love with love than with a person and feel adrift rather than anchored...
...came Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, one of the damnedest books of all time. Tapped by Reagan's inner circle to be the President's authorized biographer, Morris had unprecedented access to Reagan, who turned out to be the man who was not there: amiable, detached and mentally adrift. Exasperated by the weightlessness of his central figure, Morris introduced himself into Dutch as a semifictional character who moves in and out of Reagan's life, along with an entirely fictional son who becomes a student radical. Even the footnotes, with their citations from the fictional diaries of the semifictional...
...songs themselves vary in quality. The album is a collaboration with scores of musicians whose artistic visions have all been distilled by the Gloved One himself. At times, his musical choices seem adrift in pop culture limbo; they do not fit effortlessly into the tired mold of his past, neither do they completely succeed in making the transition to being on the cutting edge of modern...