Word: drift
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...putting the finishing touches on his latest work, a huge portrait of a pigtailed young girl. Dressed in slacks, a pink polo shirt and loafers, Lu chats casually with a string of visitors who drift in and out of his studio. Some are fellow artists and dealers from the community several thousand strong occupying the courtyards and alleys here in Songzhuang, in Beijing's eastern suburbs. The conversation ranges from gossip about colleagues through the sources of artistic inspiration to the merits of colleges in Australia, where Lu's son is studying. Later, Lu and I hop into his brand...
Whatever the cause, this body of mine doesn’t know how to handle it. My stomach grumbles between meals. I lie in bed unable to drift off in the wee hours of the morning, then wake up in the middle of the afternoon. Somehow the city—with its flashing lights, euphoric ruckus, its paint-splattered walls and narrow, endless alleyways—has managed to halt my internal clock. Pause it, if you will...
...York Public-School system, we read Huck Finn in the eighth grade. For a kid from the suburbs, the picaresque story of Huck and Jim was wonderfully exotic. Who wouldn't want to live along the Mississippi and drift down the river on a skiff? The buddy story of Huck and Jim was not only a model of American adventure and literature but also of deep friendship and loyalty. It's not hard to see why Ernest Hemingway said all of American literature can be traced back to Mark Twain. Plus, Twain was funny, the hardest trick...
...dream shall never die.” In his health care speech in 1978, I heard him excite even the Carter supporters in the room when he attacked the President’s caution: “Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot afford to drift or lie at anchor. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail...
...tests, subjects listening to the CD took no longer than 61/2 minutes to drift off. Of course it might take a little longer to do that in a concert hall. "The original idea was to put out beds for the audience so they could completely relax, but we couldn't find the right venue," says organizer Yutaka Nezu. But happily some seats will be available with pillows and blankets. Book them quick on tel: (81-3) 3498 9999. Lots of tired Tokyoites will be vying for them...