Word: driftings
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...years E. (for Edna) Annie Proulx, whose fine, rambunctious second novel The Shipping News won the National Book Award last week, supported herself by writing for small to middling outdoor magazines. This is very close to being impossible. The caloric content of the checks that drift in months late is only marginally greater than that of rejection slips burned in the wood stove...
...battalion's camp in Saudi Arabia, more than 100 miles from the Kuwaiti border. At 3 a.m. an exploding Scud missile jolted him awake. Before Kay had time to clamp on his gas mask, the acrid smell of ammonia assaulted his lungs, and he watched a whitish gray cloud drift over the camp. Says he: "Right after that, people started getting sick...
Three years into the country's heart-wrenching drive to reinvent itself -- and hours after a hard-line coup attempt -- Russians found themselves last week swapping expressions of political drift. "It could have been worse," has long been a favorite conversation clincher among Russians. Last week it was also true. If the rampaging gangs of fascists, communists and nationalists had managed to take over in the Kremlin, the world would be staring at them, fearful about the guns they were so willing to use and about the immense nuclear arsenal at their disposal...
...than prepare for elections, revitalize the stalled economy, pacify a politicized military and demonstrate that he heads a functioning government. "Yeltsin must get down to governing quickly," says Peter Frank, an expert on Russia at Essex University, England. "The government has broken down, and things cannot be allowed to drift further...
...presented melodramatically. Bad Behaviour was improvised, under Les Blair's direction, by its actors. They were obviously looking for characters to play, not a plot to follow or pre-existent outlines to fill in. For a change, this dangerous technique works: the film's best quality is its lifelike drift. Like real people, and unlike movie people, these figures will do anything to escape confrontation with their problems, with themselves...