Word: drift
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...Files, now in its eighth season, the drift had arguably already set in. It was among the most relevant dramas of the 1990s, a sleek buddy-cop variation whose conspiracy motif captured a mood of civic mistrust that ranged from Perotistas to militias. But last year the investigation by Duchovny's Fox Mulder and his partner Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) into a government-and-alien cabal went from teasingly ambiguous to meandering, and the stars seemed restless. "I was done. I wanted to move on," says Anderson, who says this season's changes have energized her. "Everybody...
...drift toward a dispiriting conclusion. Watching the documentary, I was struck by the intelligence in Kennedy's and Nixon's eyes - very different forms of intelligence, of course, but two different expressions of the real thing. Kennedy and Nixon both had terrible defects (more than anyone knew at the time). Kennedy's beautiful facade concealed a weirdly reckless sex life and potentially fatal disease (Addison's). Nixon had his own shadows (less well disguised...
...loved being able to lie on my bed and flip from a ska music station in New Jersey to pop music from Greece in less than a second. Unfortunately, I can't turn my PC and Net connection off with the remote. So, just when I'm about to drift off listening to Beethoven.com I have to sleepwalk to my PC, log off and power down...
...Barak's domestic political weakness is forcing Barak to act tough, and he's now considering a unity government with the Likud party who've opposed the peace process all the way. And the mounting violence between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is a frightening portent of the drift of Israeli domestic politics...
Stine's prophecy got the drift of the future right but erred on the details. It took far less than a decade for droves of young readers to desert his two series; and the other things he foresaw himself doing turn out to look spookily like the things he was doing before...