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...moment of tremendous anxiety," Serra wrote in 1988, "as the oiler rattled, swayed, tipped and bounced into the sea, half submerged, to then raise and lift itself and find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from an enormous obdurate weight to a buoyant structure, free, afloat and adrift. All the raw material that I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory, which has become a recurrent dream." His "awe and wonder" at this sight is recapitulated, more strongly than ever before in his work, in the Torqued Ellipses...
...McGirk believes they're more likely to make progress on nonproliferation at this stage. Both sides have declared a moratorium on nuclear testing, and they're taking steps to reassure the world that they're not about to incinerate each other. There's nothing as effective as being cut adrift in a lifeboat to get a conversation started...
...That is to say, few persons have the opportunity to receive an education, which understood precisely is the freeing of one from the grips of prejudice. Harvard used to provide such education to its students as a matter of fact, but no longer. It now leaves them ignorant and adrift to choose courses from a sea of boring and impoverished prejudices...
Some former Bradley aides, who remember how unfocused and adrift he seemed during his last years in the Senate, have become impatient with his to-run-or-not-to-run act. They don't believe his intellectual quest is leading anywhere. "Is he doing this to improve the nation," asks one, "or just to improve himself?" He reminds them of another bigfoot Democrat who seemed to regard himself as better than the process--Mario Cuomo, the longtime New York Governor, now a lawyer in private practice. Plenty has changed since Cuomo's big moment: Paul Tsongas and Ross Perot have...
...offered lots of dramatic possibilities. So they set about creating a group of characters: Campbell (Eion Bailey), Henry (Scott Bairstow) and Nell (Jennifer Garner), who have been friends for 20 years (needless to say, Nell has been involved with both guys). They live in Los Angeles, professionally and romantically adrift...