Word: adrift
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...Marlon Brando as sweaty, sexy, brutal Stanley Kowalski. That's the crucial moment when films gave up a love of the American aristocracy for a fascination with the roiling underclass, and when actors were given license to rage and mumble--to express the inchoate feelings of souls caged or adrift, doomed by society or destiny...
...first-rate new studies line up more or less on the side of time and the liberals. Peter Steinfels' A People Adrift (Simon & Schuster; 392 pages,) and David Gibson's The Coming Catholic Church (HarperSanFrancisco; 350 pages) are both thoughtful, moderate in their judgments and worried. "If the church does not change," says Gibson, "Catholicism will hardly disappear. But it will face the sadder fate of a slow-motion enervation...
...that the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has compiled is a powerful, new work of science. It has received much attention, and rightfully so,” Inhofe said. “The powerful new findings of this most comprehensive of studies shiver the timbers of the adrift Chicken Little crowd...
Some members of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) say the demise of Radcliffe College left RUS initially adrift...
...student of details. "Probably I will not see Iran the way I want to see it in my lifetime. But so what?" she says, talking so fast she outpaces her own breath. The adult Satrapi, like the child in her book, is a beguiling character. She is adrift in earnestness one moment, and then alight with brutal realism the next. From a hotel room in Austin, Texas, she marvels at the open-mindedness of the Americans who have come to hear her on a promotional tour. Her biggest problem so far is caused by the smoking restrictions. In Iran...