Word: adrift
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...between Ronald Reagan's two closest counselors has been airing regularly, like a soap-opera accompaniment to news of the Iran-contra scandal. As the sniping between First Lady Nancy Reagan and White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan escalated, it only added to the image of a presidency adrift. "What is happening at the White House?" asked New Mexico Democrat William Richardson on the House floor last week. "Who is in charge? A constituent of mine asked, 'How can the President deal with the Soviets if he cannot settle a dispute between his wife and the chief of staff...
...will be the first of many outposts in this country. To that end they are seeking out and training gifted young American chefs, like Michael Hutchings, the controlling partner in their Santa Barbara pilot venture. Some of the menu offerings are Roux inventions -- the cloudlike cheese souffle adrift in a cream and Gruyere sauce and the succulent beef tournedos in robust red-wine sauce with an earthy hotchpotch of mushrooms. Equally delectable are Hutchings' own creations -- tender abalone in a beurre- blanc sauce with caviar, and squab mellowed in a shallot-scented Cabernet sauce...
...JOHN'S, Newfoundland -- Three Canadian fishing vessels rescued about 150 men, women and children who were found yesterday afternoon adrift in two lifeboats in the Atlantic Ocean, a Coast Guard spokesman reported...
...Europe, however, Schwitters was virtually the last great modern artist to be widely misunderstood and rejected. Uprooted from his native Germany by Nazism, he found himself cast adrift at 49, a hard age at which to begin life in exile. He went to Norway, and then in the early '40s passed through a series of British internment camps. The artworks and documents he left behind in Hanover were destroyed in an air raid. He suffered from epilepsy and strokes. His wife died of cancer. To support himself he had to do tourist views and kitsch portraits in the Lake District...
...cinema verite cameraman, sooner or later there comes a time when one wants to scream at him, "Stop being a camera! Start being a human being!" There are many of these moments in Streetwise, a film by Director-Cameraman Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall, about adolescents adrift on the streets of Seattle. The first, surely, is when Erin, one of the principal subjects, calmly discusses with a doctor how she became a prostitute before she had had her first period. Another occurs when her alcoholic mother suggests that streetwalking may merely be a phase Erin is going...