Word: driftingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eric Roberts is a perfect Paul. His eyes have that "certain hysterical brilliancy" Gather described; he is exactly the kind of pretty, wide-eyed dilettante who, in 1980, would drift un noticed through the underbelly of New York show business. In Paul's Case, the young man commits suicide-but not before the audience has felt the full force of Gather's lonely, haunting vision...
After the match, the spectators will drift out, enthusiastic beginners will replace the seasoned varsity squads in Hemenway's bowels, and the Gym will most assuredly retain its smell...
...Farmington, New Hampshire they race cars on ice, every Sunday afternoon while the ice is thick enough. The beat-up station wagons and rusting Impalas, tire-chains cutting the ice, drift around the corners, tailing ice chips and snow. The high-pitched whine of asphalt racing is replaced by a muffled roar, the stands replaced by footstamping, flask-sipping locals retreating from the snowbanks to their cars for a little heat. The "stock" division--the cars nearest the junkyard--lines up for the start of the 15-lap feature. Jim in car #2 guarantees loudly that he will drive...
...probably inevitable in the presidential campaign, if only because it echoes last year's refrains of "Who lost Iran?" and "Who lost Nicaragua?" The temptation to blame Jimmy Carter is understandable-and, for his critics, irresistible. After all, even though his predecessors had unwittingly contributed to the leftward drift of the Kabul government, it was during Carter's watch-and partly because of his misjudgments-that Afghanistan finally slipped from its traditional neutrality into the Soviet orbit...