Word: adrift
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When one thinks of short stories about Americans adrift in a foreign land, expatriate authors like Ernest Hemmingway and Paul Bowles come to mind...
With “God Lives in St. Petersburg” added to his previous works—most notably “Chasing the Sea,” which centered around the Aral—Bissell is proving to be the premier contemporary author of Americans adrift around the world...
...kicked out to a new section time, but a new that guy will fill his seat. Sure, that guy is frustrating, but he’s more that just his persona. We need that guy to anchor section—without him, we will be completely adrift. We want to believe in substantive debate, and more idealistically, we want to believe that we actually learn from each other. Maybe if that guy listened a bit more, and that guy, and that gal, and that guy, stopped planning their next point, the rest of us would stop skipping the debate...
...from Spain, guns from Russia, unsustainable welfare to calm poor masses at home, and, not surprisingly, the “unconditional support” of countries in the region. After 9/11, the Bush administration chose to take its ships and interests to other waters, and Latin America was left adrift. This was exemplified by Argentina’s 2001 crash, when democracy survived but the economic progress of a whole decade was razed along the governing administration...
...process, Stevenson has cast the usual artistic ideas about Fairweather adrift. While a 1994 retrospective installed the painter in the pantheon of Australian Modernism, "I actually believe this in a way undersells his achievements," says Stevenson, a graduate of Auckland's Elam School. "The story of his life seems somewhere between Gauguin and the hippy movement, and this aspect of his practice is also important and fascinating." Through his research, Stevenson began to see himself in Fairweather. The latter lived his last two decades as a virtual recluse on Queensland's Bribie Island, and the New Zealander, who moved...