Word: adrift
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Japan's two largest political parties failed to agree on a new prime minister, leaving the country adrift two days after Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata's resignation. The policy gap between the three blocs squabbling for power -- Hata's coalition, the conservative "Liberal Democrats" and the Socialists -- was so great that they could not even agree on when to hold more talks. Hata, meanwhile, stays on as caretaker and looks to be the second consecutive lame-duck premier Japan will send to the G-7 economic summit, to be held July 8 in Naples. The P.M.'s fall is considered...
...that's a lie. I'm inconsolable. I miss the purpose and certainty my thesis provided. I was never bored when it was around. I always had something to do. Everything was so clear then, and now it's all confusing. I'm adrift without direction or companionship...
...busybody mother Zelda: "She should have had more children or at least a small nation to control. Instead, forced narrow, her talents run to getting people to do things they don't want to do for other people they don't like." Lipsha, as the novel begins, adrift in the white world: "He was caught in a foreign skin, drowned in drugs and sugar and money, baked hard in a concrete...
Jackson has always seemed emotionally bewildered, adrift in a toy boat on a roiling sea outside Neverland. His accuser wins sympathy, but he earns pity. If he never goes to jail, he still seems condemned to solitary confinement in his own bizarre Eden...
...other actors lend more weight to the production, particularly Jack Willis, whose Lopakhin is the perfect voice of reason in a household adrift. However, Lopakhin's business sense has left him no time for would-be wife Varya, played with appeal and sympathy by Miki Whittles. In her interpretation of Varya's sister Anya, Karen Phillips comes across as flaccid and boring. For the first scene, she inexplicably delivers her lines directly to the audience. This bland performance renders the affection of dire, serious Pyotr (Royal Miller) for Anya unlikely...