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...Game 5, for example, Fischer was adrift, wandering eyeless about the board. His rook moves two squares -- then, on the next move, back one. (Like gaining 8 yds. on first down, then voluntarily taking a 4-yd. loss on second.) A bishop thrusts sharply across the board -- to a useless perch at the edge of play. "What was his ((bishop)) supposed to be aiming for?" asked a bewildered Robert Byrne in the New York Times. A good question made poignant by the source. Thirty years ago, Fischer defeated Byrne in a win so beautiful it was once described as "more...
...also where we hope to go next. The nice girls adrift in Carpenter's earlier ballads (When She's Gone, Middle Ground) often have the single-white- female blues, and there's a fine one here: He Thinks He'll Keep Her, a sarcastic soft rocker about a perfect wife ("Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design/ Spit and polish 'til it shines") who walks out on her husband only to find herself ignored and abused in a menial job. But Carpenter surely knows that thirtysomething angst is just half the story; a woman is not only...
...Diego harbor, where the climate is warmer and where the islanders can paddle onshore to catch a movie or a meal at McDonald's. Furthermore, these international criminals say that if their ultimatums are not met within three days, Mrs. Bush, your wife of 47 years, will be set adrift on the Bering Strait in a rubber dinghy with nothing to sustain her but some frozen whale blubber and a complete set of Jane Fonda exercise cassettes. What would be your response? Would you put your arm around...
...Fisher (Joan Plowright), a crusty matron, was once an intimate of Ruskin and Rossetti, as she will remind you without prompting. Lady Caroline (Polly Walker) might be a pre-Raphaelite princess, but adrift in the jazz age and bored by the clammy attentions men pay her. The others, Lottie (Josie Lawrence) and Rose (Miranda Richardson), are trussed in marriages that seem more like mergers. Lottie's husband, an attorney, wants her to be a housemaid and party ornament. Rose's husband, a writer, wants her to stay at home, out of his lightly lecherous way, and tend the emptiness...
Rosovsky said Marquand "sort of rescued" manyDudley affiliates who felt adrift in the Harvardcommunity...