Word: castaway
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Tina Louise will always be remembered as Ginger, the Gilligan's Island castaway with a case of evening gowns, but these days she has more serious concerns. Louise has written a memoir, Sunday, published by Golden Books' adult division. It details the bad time she had when her very young mother put her in boarding school. "Writing it was a healing process for me," she says. "But I also want parents to buy it and share it with their teenagers...
...some seemingly desperate attempts to expand beyond telephones and phone service, including the failed $6 billion acquisition of computer maker NCR Corp., the pricey buyout of McCaw Cellular ($13 billion) and some high-profile product failures. NCR, which lost billions, was spun off in last year's "trivestiture." Another castaway, the manufacturing arm now called Lucent Technologies, has been on a tear since leaving Allen's hold...
Throughout their long performance, however, Kozelek kept interacting with the small audience, entertaining suggestions, complaining, joking, congenially taunting. Occasionally jibes were aimed at the undercover Island executives who were supposedly there to research the newly-signed band, which was castaway from the highly-touted 4AD label after their first three records...
...thus we must oil the machine. Oil the machine and expedite the expulsion of cogs. With the evolution of the wheel, the cog is castaway. There is no choice in order to insure a brighter future but to oil the machine. Oil the machine and clear away the cogs. The cogs need to go. Oil the machine. Clear the cogs...
...tree scrub. He had a scraggy beard and bright, China-blue eyes. His manners were polite and distant. He wasn't engaged in some Gauguin-based fantasy. He was simply living the way that suited him best, free from attachment. The locals thought he was a bum, a castaway, but his talent made him a queer and upright old aristocrat...