Word: adrift
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...last week, his mother Linda Williams wept before a TV crew and said, "He's lost. His future's gone." No grownup in his life seems to have been looking out for that future before the shooting. Charles Andrew Williams had been a lost boy for some time--hopelessly adrift in a dysfunctional, anonymous suburban landscape, craving acceptance but too often meeting rejection instead...
...Washington believes Arafat doesn't have a game plan, that he's adrift and doesn't know quite where to turn or what to do. Even last year when he rejected what was on the table at Camp David, he never offered a counterproposal. One of the great frustrations of the Americans is precisely that Arafat lacks a strategy. He seems to be caught in the headlights...
...employee of the Coca-Cola Co. for the past 14 years, sometimes feels a bit like a man adrift on a shrinking piece of pack ice. As corporate-affairs director for Coke's Chinese operations, he has been busy lately helping the company move its local headquarters from Hong Kong to the mainland powerhouse of Shanghai. Now that the move is complete, he and six other staff members are all that are left of a former complement of 140 people. In Shanghai, by contrast, Coke's staff will have jumped to a 1 million-sq.-ft., seven-story building...
...Poisonwood Bible (1998). Her three earlier novels, The Bean Trees (1988), Animal Dreams (1990) and Pigs in Heaven (1993), built a considerable readership, particularly among women, as offbeat, eco-feminist romances, and Kingsolver could have gone on repeating the elements that made those books popular: independent females vaguely adrift in the U.S. Southwest with strong views on such matters as honoring Native American rights and sheltering Latin American political refugees. But she extended her range dramatically in Poisonwood, a long, incantatory meditation, filtered through the memories of an American mother and her four daughters, on the evils of Western colonialism...
...says, "that whenever I moved to a new label, the first thing I did was sign Baha Men." But this time out sales were even worse; the group's second and final CD for Mercury sold a humiliating 700 units. When Greenberg resigned last year, Baha Men were adrift again...