Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...management after the death of her father, Aristotle Onassis. The 275,000-ton ship, which earlier had undergone successful sea trials, headed from Brest on her maiden voyage on Jan. 24 and ran into a sudden squall. Then the ship's engines inexplicably quit, leaving it to drift in 60-m.p.h. gusts; the 30-man crew dropped two anchors but the anchor chains snapped. So the voyage covered only about 35 miles, ending against the rocks of the island of Ushant. There the tanker rests, sinking slowly as water seeps in through gashes torn in her hull...
...little New Hampshire town of Harlowe, he begins his auctions with a benefit for the one-man police force. But he is not in town for charitable purposes. Before long, the townspeople's most precious possessions-including, eventually, children-fall under Dunsmore's hammer. Wisps of evil drift through the book, perceived through the eyes of the Moores, a proud old farming family. "You'll pay worse if you try to say no," warns Mim Moore. "Somebody-some head guy somewhere's bound to catch on and put the lid on the whole thing," a friend...
...TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter reports: "Kissinger sees himself as holding the structure of the nation's foreign policy together, and he is in no position to hand over foreign policy to a successor now. He fears the impact of his leaving would contribute to the sense of drift; he will stay as long as he is effective...
...cute, come on strong ("That's not the wind-it's souls in purgatory"), then have a good laugh on themselves. No body seems to have any connection to anyone else. They all stumble along in the drenching sun, not bothering about much of anything. The general drift-and one needs a memory of the novel even for this-is that a man makes his bones not by cheating death but by laughing at it. It is a wholly unworthy point to be making, which may also explain why the laughs are in such short supply...
...conceivable dramatic calorie count, the plot courts starvation. The setting is a drafty, government-sponsored art studio, a cross between a ratty garret and an army barracks. Several young men and women of working-class origin drift in. Their teacher, Allott (Kevin Conway), has come earlier, as has Stella (Veronica Castang), the nude model. As the students stand at their sketch boards, it is quickly apparent that they are wholly inept and could not tell Degas from dandruff. They are whiling away the days on a subsidized boondoggle, and for them art is what Writer Rose Macaulay once said...