Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gush ran thick and embarrassing for a man whose career has proved such an anti-climax. The searching, potentially revealing questions about Welles floated over the exchange and remained unanswered. Not because questioners failed to hint at them, but because Welles himself didn't seem to catch their drift...
...screamed and struggled, though there seemed no escape from the grinning eminence I beheld. But soft! A look of confusion began to cross her scrambled features. Henry Jekyll once more! A little breathy murmur crossed her confused lips. "What say?" I called out, yearning to catch her drift. "Don't use that dumb hippie expression with me!" she roared, the phlegm rumbling in her throat. "I forgot what to do next! I forgot the next move!" She began lumbering around the room knocking over bookcases and smashing her rare collection of African fertility statuettes which bore an eerie resemblance...
Without facing up to it in either himself or his subject, Mailer projects his intolerance of the opposite sex onto Miller, exaggerating the latter's drift at least once over...
...Malle conceived the idea to weigh down such a juicy theme and such dashing actors with such a heavy moral remains unclear. But there it is. Le Voleur plays like the flip side to Malle's Lacombe, Lucien. Lacombe made us deal with a young man's value-free drift into collaboration with the Nazis--it showed us the aimless, human side of sellout. Le Voleur confronts us with a less interesting but equally unrelenting appraisal of a high-class thief's real motives--with the aimless, addicted side of a romantic stereotype...
From this analysis, Wilson arrives at a solution: increase legitimate opportunities for the underprivileged, but place major emphasis on mandatory punishment. He divides criminals into hard-core lawbreakers, potential criminals and experimenters who drift along. The latter two groups will diminish if faced with severe punishment, he reasons, while isolating the first group for extended durations will reduce its ability to repeatedly break the law. His proposal would not eliminate crime, he says, but it would reduce...