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...drift-net type of net used to catch salmon, net is towed behind boat to snag salmon...
...mean, I didn't quite catch your drift...
...replaced drift and deadlock with renewal and reform...
...fact, his most serious problem in the Secretary's job was not related to his policy decisions but to the overall drift of the Administration he was part of. "Les Aspin was dealt a difficult hand," says Oklahoma Representative Dave McCurdy, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, which Aspin once chaired. "The first card was gays and lesbians: faceup. Then came the three regional problems -- Somalia, Bosnia and Haiti -- for which nobody in the Administration had real answers." The heaving and rocking of the Clinton White House as it struggles to define America's role in the world...
This is a point made more tacitly than explicitly in the film. Missing * entirely is Keneally's tantalizing suggestion that this quite untutored man may have somehow imagined before anyone else (including many Nazis) that the drift of their policies could carry them to only one place -- genocide. Added to the movie, unfortunately, is a blatantly sentimental concluding scene in which Schindler breaks down hysterically because he might have saved even more people but did not. Keneally is distressed by that passage. But he also, and correctly, insists the movie "isn't at all untrue to the spirit of Schindler...