Word: drift
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...China grows as a world power, analysts agree there is a real danger that differences between the two countries will cause a drift into “strategic rivalry.” One emerging aspect of that rivalry can be seen in China’s most recent chosen alliances—countries like Sudan, Iran and Cuba, all of which are unsympathetic to America. China has also approached U.S. counterweights like the European Union, with which it has just concluded a successful summit settling textile quotas. Although China has become an increasingly powerful player on the world?...
...through/ But now the feeling's gone"--don't offer up any autobiographical clues, but it seethes with bitterness. The trick to these very tough tunes is that they're essentially untethered from anything like a formal chorus. They don't try to resolve themselves; they just drift into provocative emotional territory and linger for a while. Chaos and Creation has its share of bright moments too--the arena-ready Follow Me, the joyously goofy Promise to You Girl--but the album feels like a catalog of all McCartney's emotions, not just the easy ones...
...dull experimenter? The acoustic guy? This time it's just Good Neil. Neil Young, 59, started making Prairie Wind, out Sept. 27, his (lordy) 31st album, a week before he had brain surgery--a nice p.r. detail but also a legit reason for him to think about mortality and drift back to his days on the Canadian steppe. There's politics and religion too, as well as some of Nashville's best musicians, though it's not really a country album. It's more a unified theory of Neil, and his timing couldn't be better...
...Still, yes, ultimately: a different team, and as we drift ever farther from the magic moments of the fall of ?04, and our relationship particularly with the Yankees enters new chapters-witness the weekend?s events-this becomes the Sox reality we have to deal with. The trophy, still thrilling to the touch, is a vessel of the past...
...extent that she does. I?m very lucky that most of my time is absolutely my own. The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. You can drift around and go and work at a coffee shop if you like. But occasionally, things get very hectic when I?m having to do promotions and do interviews and go traveling and that kind of thing. And I have two children, and another on the way. All boys...