On board the truck, the conversation drifts from family to finances.
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His theme, however, drifts from baseball to a mix of homonyms and math.
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She drifts from diner to diner, occasionally overhearing what sounds like a clue.
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He carried his wife through the drifts from the train station to their home.
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The mind drifts, from the chill of a dark day to a springtime of color.
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Across the glade a chorus of bleats drifts from a crumbling hut, shaped from thatch and earth.
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Ruth, an ardent feminist and rule-lover, smiles back… until the light slowly drifts from her eyes.
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Cadillac cushions vibrate on the appropriate side to warn drivers when the car drifts from its lane.
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Middle Eastern music drifts from the sound system while smoke from silvery water pipes fills the air.
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Or you'll be on the sidewalk and a song you love drifts from the window of a passing car.
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Listen to "No Paths" below, and pick up In All That Drifts From Summit Down from Sargent House April 29.
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Farmers have complained it evaporates and drifts from where it is applied, causing damage to crops that cannot resist it.
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Upper West Side, Manhattan Secondhand smoke poses serious health hazards, including the smoke that drifts from one apartment to another.
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George Orwell warned, the further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Their upcoming debut record, In All That Drifts from Summit Down, pushes what one would normally expect out of indie rock.
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An overmedicated, whiskey-drenched beauty whose mind drifts from the start, Minou's mental state is the focus of this psychological thriller.
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What I did not realize until mere moments ago, is how far Bing's homepage drifts from Google's nearly-all-white design.
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Sweden's Volvo AB will be forced to phase out its UK model line-up if Britain drifts from EU rules after Brexit.
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For unions, anytime a union local drifts from its core mission of looking out for its members and plays politics, compromises are made.
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After his escape he drifts from town to town trying to find the ghostly figure and to elude the man obsessed with recapturing him.
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While her high-flying brother blazes a career in medicine, 20-something Shirin drifts from one job and one Brooklyn house party to the next.
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WANCHESE, N.C. (Reuters) - Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son" drifts from Karroll Tillett's workshop, a wooden shed about half a mile from where he was born.
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The more the Trump administration ignores Congressional mandates, such as military aid to Ukraine and subpoena requests, the further U.S. governance drifts from its Constitutional foundations.
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Her trumpet playing is redolent of Don Cherry, but bolstered by her own suite of extended techniques; it drifts from tuneless clouds to long, coagulated tones.
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His style drifts from verbatim, but he does, he says, try to meet with his subjects again, showing them the speeches they inspired, which likely keeps him honest.
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In fact, some areas of the state now have more smog than the smoggiest cities in the world because of smoke drifts from the Camp Fire and other wildfires.
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And in "UFO," what looks like a similar patch of light slowly turns and shrinks as it drifts from right to left and then suddenly, in a blink, zips away.
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Shot in Florida by Joseph Prieto, it follows a small-town Southern prostitute as she drifts from man to man during a hot summer night, leaving only ruin in her wake.
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"Crazy" drifts from the subject of becoming interested in selling crack at age eight or nine to the subject of having sex that leaves the sheets sticky in just a few short, somewhat unfulfilling minutes.
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After their divorce is finalized, the penniless Wanda drifts from one harrowing encounter with a man after another, until she finds herself an accomplice to Norman Dennis (Michael Higgins), a bank robber on the run.
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Michôd has a gift for screen violence and is generally good with actors, yet time and again your attention drifts from Hal-Henry to the story's edges, where the supporting actors nibble at their tasty bits.
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The prostitutes there are dressed in military uniforms, and his mind drifts from lust to a painful vision: the anguished face of his father, who committed suicide after suffering beatings at the hands of Mao-era officials.
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Her self-created alphabet of shapes floats across screen while an English translation spells out "RELENTLESS TENDERNESS," creating a soothing transitional space that makes one question the nature of the phrase as it drifts from screen to screen.
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Leaving his son and nephew behind "until he sent word for them to come," he goes to seek out a "safe place" and, since there is none, drifts from one underpaid timbering job to the next, never coming home.
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The broadcast drifts from sermons to a talk show to an announcement that they've, yet again, lowered the price on a bucket of 19 years worth of enchiladas (a clip I will see around once every ninety minutes during this marathon).
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What I'd really like to talk about is how Lil Wayne singlehandedly proved every doubt about Auto-Tune wrong with his declarations in this verse, a wildly swooping and gurgled performance that somehow drifts from straightforward objectification into genuine romance.
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Though the film has a progression that ultimately leads Wiggins' character to consider the role of death in shaping meaning, it mostly drifts from one notion and memorable character to the next, letting the concepts and their presenters shape the animation.
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As he drifts from room to room — and there are about 1,000 of them in his new Ankara palace — Erdogan no doubt has time to reflect on Turkey's travails and perhaps ponder how events can escape the control of even the most megalomaniacal ruler.
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Despite these brief fits of bug-eyed energy, much of the film slowly drifts from one lengthy, druggy scene to another as though only half-conscious, with Cosmatos aiming for a hallucinatory tone similar to David Lynch or Enter the Void director Gaspar Noé.
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In many ways, however, De La Soul's innovative career would be perfectly suited for the present, as music drifts from the jurisdiction of labels and artists release quasi-legal mixtapes or online videos that sidestep all the legal barriers that have long bedevilled them.
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After their 12-hour date together, Frank spends a year with a joyless bore who hates jokes and chicken tikka masala, while Amy gets stuck with a bro who insists on fucking the first night ("it's better that way"), then slowly drifts from him after they realize their time is running short.
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He drifts from window to window, and a part of him understands dimly that this is not the house he is looking for, that none of them are, that the house he is looking for and the girl who lives inside it are in some profound way no longer available to him.
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We are locked in the mind of an Ohio woman, a mother of four with a cutting power of observation, as her attention drifts from Jared Kushner's investments in China to an earring she lost years ago, the death of her mother to the wet towels on the floor to news of ecological collapse.
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In the episode's most significant shot, Cantwell takes in this little ad hoc family (including Toby Huss's Bos, who's brought over his famous chili in lieu of anything else to do) starting to knit back together, to remember the man they've lost, and then his camera drifts from them to Gordon's empty chair, no one sitting there.
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Hong Kong drifters find it difficult to fit into the society. On one hand, some local people have prejudice of drifts from mainland. They think people from mainland scramble their sources ranging from education to working opportunity and they doubt the quality of drifts from mainland. Some people made advertisements on newspaper to require the government to reduce the admission of mainland students in order to protect the Hong Kong youth's education and career.
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A melancholy song drifts from his hut by day and by night. In her disdain, Zeyno leads the peasants’ protest as they march, covered in mud, to the Kaymakam's office.
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Jonah Bromwich; Runaway Military Surveillance Blimp Drifts From Maryland to Pennsylvania, New York Times, 28 October 2015. A hybrid tethered balloon or kytoon is shaped to provide aerodynamic lift similar to a kite, as well as to reduce drag.
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Slaves of New York received mostly unfavorable reviews at the time of its release. Janet Maslin wrote that the film "...simply drifts from situation to situation" and is "never terribly involving".Maslin, Janet."James Ivory's Version Of Janowitz's 'Slaves'"New York Times, March 17, 1989.
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Flaw lead is an oceanographic term for a waterway opening between pack ice and fast ice. Flaw lead occurs annually at the time when central pack ice drifts from coastal ice, thereby creating the flaw. The process begins in autumn. Flaw leads can have interconnected polynyas.
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Leboutilier's appearance causes Saul to have flashbacks to the abuses committed at the school, and he leaves the team. Taking odd low-level jobs, he drifts from place to place between 1979 and 1989. He sees Lonnie in an alley, drinking liquor. Saul drinks a lot and develops alcoholism.
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Nick: It's our problem free philosophy: / Company: Hakuna Ma-- Bibbidi-bobbidi... (On the Record) Burbank: Disney, 2004 Under the musical adaptation and arrangement by David Chase, songs also take different twists on their original counterparts from film or stage. "Be Our Guest" especially drifts from the original film version in that it is sung in a surplus of different languages. Julian sings a portion of the song in French, Diane sings in German, Kristen sings in Japanese, Nick sings in Swedish, and the company sings other portions in English and other languages. "The Work Song", however, hardly drifts from the original version at all, digitally altering the characters' voices to imitate those of Cinderella's mice.
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Months later, his pregnant wife dies from typhoid fever. After staying by her side through the illness, Wyatt becomes deeply depressed. Burning their home and possessions, he begins drinking and drifts from town to town, landing in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He robs a man and steals his horse, but is captured.
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Toundi treats Father Gilbert as his new father. Father Gilbert teaches Toundi to read and write, and about Catholicism. Toundi believes in Catholicism, but as the story progresses he drifts from his beliefs until the end, when he does not believe in God. Father Gilbert dies in a motorcycle accident a few months after meeting Toundi.
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Large expanses of snow were deep, with some significant drifts deep. The post roads were impassable until at least March 15, with the mailmen describing snow drifts from Boston to Portsmouth more than a week after the storm. Travel was also impossible for a time from New York City to Boston.Have Snow Shovel, Will Travel Accessed 2009-02-03.
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Q gave it 2 out of 5 stars and called it "her blandest record yet: it drifts from nondescript disco-pop and cloying R&B; to woefully ersatz glam stomp".Columnist. "Review: The Sellout". Q: 132. July 2010. However, The Boston Globes James Reed commended its production and wrote that it "sands off the edges that have been key to Gray’s appeal".
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Seven-chi-tall Tang Long is nicknamed "Gold Coin Spotted Leopard" as he is dappled with freckles from head to feet. After his father, an official at Yan'an Prefecture (延安府; present-day Yan'an, Shaanxi), died, he drifts from place to place working as a blacksmith. Tang, a hardcore gambler, knows some martial arts and fights mainly with spear or staff.
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Grützner 2010, pp. 39–41.telegraphy officer – on trials on the alt=A large warship steams at low speed; gray smoke drifts from the smoke stack On 19 March 1916, Lindemann was transferred to the newly commissioned battleship (under the command of Captain Max Hahn), with the same rank of 2nd wireless telegraphy officer. Bayern, with her eight guns, was the most powerful ship of the fleet.
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The story of the real-life love affair between Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn is told largely through their poetry throughout the film. Lasker-Schüler is forced to leave the country because of the very ideology Benn espouses, and while she drifts from country to country en route to Jerusalem, he eventually realizes his mistake when the Nazis condemn his artistic school.
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Billy, awkward and very reserved, is bullied at school. Channe drifts from boy to boy giving sex in exchange for acceptance until she falls for Keith, a fellow student who becomes her steady boyfriend. Immersed in the writing of a new novel, Bill is worried about the future of his family when he would be gone. The irregularity of Billy's adoption comes to haunt him.
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As the oscillation takes some time to set up, and is inherently random at the start, subsequent startups will have different output parameters. Phase is almost never preserved, which makes the magnetron difficult to use in phased array systems. Frequency also drifts from pulse to pulse, a more difficult problem for a wider array of radar systems. Neither of these present a problem for continuous-wave radars, nor for microwave ovens.
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The mysterious reels could predate the brother's first film, The Weavers, which is believed to be the first film shot in the Balkans. A's journey fuses his own memories, the experiences of the Manaki brothers, and contemporary images of the Balkans. A drifts from Albania to North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia. He travels on a train, a barge laden with a statue of Lenin (Polyphemus) and eventually a row boat.
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A Summer Night with Olivia Newton-John was the eighteenth concert tour by Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, in support of her sixth soundtrack A Few Best Men. The tour name drifts from her 1978 hit, "Summer Nights", from the musical film Grease. It is Newton-John largest tour since the Heartstrings World Tour, which runs from 2002 to 2005. It was her first tour in the United Kingdom in over 30 years.
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On the other hand, culture difference is another obstacle preventing Hong Kong drifts from getting into Hong Kong society. One of the many concerns raised about Hong Kong drifter is being seen as an unrefined, unsophisticated person in the cosmopolitan city. They may be seen to have inferior clothes or style, lack of knowledge about technology, had a poor upbringing and unsophisticated manners. They may also be assumed to be members of the Communist Party of China.
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In Los Angeles, California, down-and-out barfly Henry Chinaski becomes a substitute mail carrier; he quits for a while and lives on his winnings at the race track, then becomes a mail clerk. Chinaski drifts from place to place, surviving through booze and women, with his biting sense of humor and a cynical view of the world.Michael Nordine, "Best L.A. Novel Ever: John Fante's Ask the Dust vs. Charles Bukowski's Post Office, Round 1," LA Weekly, November 2, 2012.
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The City of San Francisco derailed in Nevada in 1939. The incident was ruled an act of sabotage, but, despite years of investigation, remains unsolved. A blizzard in the Sierra Nevada trapped the train for six days in January 1952, on Track #1 at Yuba Pass (), 17 miles (27 km) west of Donner Pass. Snow drifts from 100 mph (160 km/h) winds blocked the train, burying it in 12 feet of snow and stranding it from January 13 to 19.
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As described in a film magazine, famous artist Robert Stevens (Walthall) is in love with Marion (Clifford). While spending a vacation along the cost of Maine, Robert paints a picture of one of the daughters of a fisherman (Saville). Some time later the body of the girl is found in the sea, and Robert is accused of being the cause of her death. Marion refuses to have anything more to do with him, and Robert drifts from bad to worse.
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During the 1990s, research continued. On March 10, 2005, the EPA issued the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). This rule provides states with a solution to the problem of power plant pollution that drifts from one state to another. CAIR will permanently cap emissions of SO2 and NOx in the eastern United States. When fully implemented, CAIR will reduce SO2 emissions in 28 eastern states and the District of Columbia by over 70% and NOx emissions by over 60% from 2003 levels.
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Purim has a rare six-octave voice. Her vocal style is influenced by Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, which drifts from lyrics to wordlessness without ever losing touch with the melody and rhythm. She expanded her vocal repertoire during early tours with Gil Evans. While touring the world for three years with Gillespie's United Nation Orchestra in the 1980s, she broadened her repertoire to include traditional mainstream jazz, bebop, and doing numbers in 4/4 time instead of the traditional Brazilian 2/4 beat.
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The story describes Augie March's growth from childhood to a fairly stable maturity. Augie, with his brother Simon and the mentally abnormal George have no father and are brought up by their mother who is losing her eyesight, and a tyrannical grandmother- like boarder in very humble circumstances in the rough parts of Chicago. Augie drifts from one situation to another in a free-wheeling manner—jobs, women, homes, education and lifestyle. Augie March's path seems to be partly self- made and partly comes around through chance.
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The Blue Warriors and their azi succeed in destroying the Ruil sept, but the Blue Hive is decimated and Raen is captured and brought before the Kontrin Council. Moth, the second oldest Kontrin, protects Raen from the Kontrin conspirators seeking to destroy her, and Raen is banished from Cerdin. Raen adopts a low profile and drifts from planet to planet in the Reach. She survives several assassination attempts but never gives up her desire for revenge against the Kontrin Council and those who destroyed her family.
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The Stone Breakers, Gustave Courbet, 1850. Destroyed There is a general sense of mounting exhaustion and despair moving from left to right among the group; the last hauler seems oblivious to his surroundings and drifts from the line out towards the viewer. The exception is a fair-haired boy in the center of the group. Set brightly against the uniform muted tones of his companions, he stands straighter; his head is raised looking into the distance, while he pulls against his straps as if determined to free himself from his task.
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During the next three years the installation of face conveyors was completed almost throughout the whole pit. The total output was obtained from the Barnsley seam until 1942 when the Dunsil seam was entered in a small area to the south of the shaft piller. Since 1942 further access to the Dunsil has been obtained by means of drifts from the Barnsley level and two further areas to the West and East have been entered to work the Dunsil seam. Coal winding remains at the original Barnsley level.
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The Good Terrorist is written in the subjective third person from the point of view of Alice, an unemployed politics and economics graduate in her mid-thirties who drifts from commune to commune. She is trailed by Jasper, a graduate she took in at a student commune she lived in fifteen years previously, who sponges off her. Alice fell in love with him, only to become frustrated by his aloofness and burgeoning homosexuality. She considers herself a revolutionary, fighting against "fascist imperialism", but is still dependent on her parents, whom she treats with contempt.
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In contrast, Ji-young has more immediate concerns—finding work to support herself and her grandparents and getting the landlord to fix the roof that is on the verge of collapsing. Unable to find meaningful employment, Ji-young grows increasingly frustrated with her poverty-stricken life with her elderly grandparents. Without parents to vouch for her, and without computer skills or driver's license, she drifts from one low-wage job to another. Tae-hee, who is constantly belittled and ostracized by her comfortably middle-class but oppressively heteropatriarchal family, dreams of escaping the conformity but does not know where she could go.
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The Lidgett Seam which was just over two feet thick and was reached by drifts from the Haigh Moor Seam which was 34 yards above.Geology and the Yorkshire Coalfield The Haigh Moor Seam was 280 yards from the surface. The explosion occurred during the latter part of the night shift, at about 3.20am (this was confirmed by a shaftman on the surface who noticed a sudden reversal of air at that time), when men were involved in repair work and making preparations for the day shift. S.O.S messages were sent out immediately to neighbouring collieries and six rescue teams arrived.
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Disappointed by the marriage of her lover to a woman he does not love, prostitute Harumi drifts from the city to a remote Japanese outpost in Manchuria to work in a "comfort house," or brothel, during the Sino-Japanese war. The commanding adjutant there takes an immediate liking to the new girl, but she is at first fascinated, and comes to love, Mikami, the officer's aide. At first he is haughty and indifferent to the girl, which enrages her, but they are drawn together eventually. Abused and manipulated by the adjutant, she grows to hate the officer and seeks solace in Mikami's arms.
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The display accident causes the flying circus to fold and Paul is out of a job. He drifts from job to job for a time, before running into Chuck Rockley (Eric Barker), a fellow performer in the old flying circus, who informs him that he and Jack are starting a new flying circus to be financed by Eve, now married to Jack. Paul accepts the offer to join them, and together they open the Pegasus Flying Field. The venture is a success, but Eve soon loses interest and starts to take an interest in Jerry Frazer, a local ex-pilot.
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Other members of the unit are the technical experts, who provide background, research and technology on various Links. Initially the primary technician is the acerbic Link biologist Sean Radmon (Sean Whalen), succeeded in Season 2 by Jonathan (Jonathan Togo), SU2's obsessively enthusiastic technician who analyzes Link evidence and produces a seemingly endless stream of Link-related inventions with positive glee. Another recurring character introduced in Season 2, is Alice Cramer (Pauley Perrette), who is the Unit's public relations person and acts to convince the press and witnesses that the crimes and strange events committed by Links are merely toxic spills, mass hallucinations, drugged out street gangers, etc. Another recurring character is Jerry (Mike Rad), someone who drifts from job to job and occasionally encounters Links.
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Adam and Sam Sherry are originally from New Zealand, writing and performing as a minimalist two- piece, based between Melbourne and London. In 2012, A Dead Forest Index released an EP entitled Antique with Denovali Records and in 2013 the duo were invited to support the band Savages on a UK tour. Following on from supporting Savages, having caught the attention of Savages’ singer and Pop Noire label co- founder Jehnny Beth, the duo released the EP Cast of Lines with the label Pop Noire in 2014. The duo released their debut album In All That Drifts from Summit Down with US label Sargent House in 2016 and were invited to support Chelsea Wolfe on a tour of North America.
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There are few areas in which the earlier drifts from the glacial deposits of the Pre-Ilionian or Illinoian stages are exposed at the surface. The extreme southeastern and southwestern portions of Minnesota (Driftless Area) have extensive areas of pre-Wisconsin drifts, but they are masked almost everywhere by surficial covering of loess (wind-blown silt). Furthermore, these regions of older drift are maturely drained, because the streams have had a longer time to evolve into an efficient drainage system compared with the streams flowing in areas covered by younger glacial deposits. Howard Hobbs has proposed that the Pre-Illinoian glacial deposits in southeastern Minnesota are actually younger Illinoian glacial deposits.Hobbs, H.C., 2006a, The “Pre-Illinoian” till of southeastern Minnesota may actually be Illinoian.
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The promotional copy on the back of Time Enough for Love, the second book featuring Lazarus Long, states that Lazarus was "so in love with time that he became his own ancestor," but this never happens in any of the published books. In the book, Lazarus does travel back in time and is seduced by his mother, but this takes place years after his own birth. Heinlein did, however, use just such a plot device in the short story "—All You Zombies—", in which a character becomes both of his own parents. A rugged individualist with a distrust of authority, Lazarus drifts from world to world, settling down periodically and leaving when the situation becomes too regimented for his taste-—often just before an angry mob arrives to capture him.
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Perés defends (as in his Literary Criticism in Catalonia, of 1883) the exercise of criticism based on information and intellectual competence, for which he cites authorities like Paul Bourget, Goncourt, Matthew Arnold, Henry James, Alas and Pardo Bazan, among others. He discusses Menéndez Pelayo and Frederic Soler, the recent work of Palacio Valdés, Pérez Galdos, Juan Valera, Mestres, Verdaguer, Pin i Soler and Bosch de la Trinxeria, and two translations into Spanish, of Heine and of Pindar. He sometimes drifts from the dominant belief that realism and modernity are synonymous, in such a way that one can see (for example in the pages devoted to Galdos) the unconscious signs of the exhaustion of the Realist rhetoric. Perés is interested in looking at Catalan literature from the perspective of the Spanish.
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When the Russian ambassador, Ivan Awfulitch, comes to town"Ambassador Ivan Awfulitch to Attend Barbecue at Home of Wally Walrus"; The Daily Gab, June 13, 1941; p. 1. Retrieved October 14, 2020The fact that the newspaper shown is over four years old seems to indicate the cartoon was in production before American entry into World War II., Wally Walrus is afforded to honor of hosting a barbecue in the ambassador's honor. The smell of cooking steaks drifts from Wally's house to the park across the street, where Woody is fast asleep, cradled in a statue called "Motherhood". The smell rouses Woody from his nap (literally dragging him across the street), and he begins to swipe food off the table -- first by grabbing ears of corn through a fence knothole, then by blindly making a sandwich that includes Wally's right hand.
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Jerry Dandrige is portrayed as classic-type vampire who drifts from town to town to feed on the blood of living human victims. In both 1985 and 2011 film versions, he has all the ordinary powers that vampires in both contemporary literature and screen have, which includes superhuman strength and speed, sleeping in a coffin by day, not being able to enter a person's private house without an invitation, turning into a vampire bat, being repelled by crosses and holy water, and can be killed by either sunlight or a wooden stake through his heart. In the 1985 version, Dandrige is said to be over 1,000 years old and comes from a long-extinct vampire clan based in Europe. In the 2011 version, Dandrige is said to be at least 400 years old and belongs to a similar extinct vampire clan based on an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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1973) For a time, Hawkeye drifts from one adventure to the next. He attempts to return to the Black Widow and briefly battles her current love, Daredevil.Daredevil #99 (May 1973) Hawkeye later assists the Hulk against the monster Zzzax.Hulk #166 (Aug. 1973) He then follows the Hulk back to the mansion of Doctor Strange, where after a skirmish, Hawkeye joins the "non- team" the Defenders for a short period.Steve Englehart (w), Sal Buscema (p), Defenders #7–10 (Aug.–Nov. 1973), New York, NY: Marvel Comics He returns briefly to the Avengers to attend the wedding of the Vision and the Scarlet Witch.Giant-Size Avengers #4 (Jun. 1975) Together with the Two-Gun Kid and Ghost Rider, Hawkeye defeats the monster the Manticore.Jim Shooter (w), Don Perlin (p), Ghost Rider #27 (December 10, 1977), New York, NY: Marvel Comics Hawkeye returns to the Avengers when the current members of the team begin to mysteriously disappear.
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Denise Levertov, Introduction, Martín & Meditations on the South Valley, New York, New Directions Publishing Corporation, p. xiii,xiv He lives as a drifter and explores the stories of his parents in VI & VII addressing both his mother and father directly through the use of the second person.Denise Levertov, Introduction, Martín & Meditations on the South Valley, New York, New Directions Publishing Corporation, p. xiv Martín initially regains sight of his dream "to buy a house, / a small piece of land, / and marry a woman" but drifts from city to city, until finally remembering his dream again, returning then to his hometown of Burque where he falls in love with a woman, Gabriela, and builds a home for them in the South Barrio.Jimmy Santiago Baca, Martín & Meditations on the South Valley, New York, New Directions Publishing Corporation, pp. 36,41 In the final poem of Martín, Gabriela gives birth to a son, Pablo, whom Martín promises never to abandon as was done to him.
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Bang Tae-sik is perennially unemployed as he drifts from one job to another, from manual labor to serving coffee. His appearance (dark skin and short height), being rather atypical for a Korean is to blame it seems, but best buddy Yong-cheol persuades Tae-sik to make better use of these disadvantages: Desperate and having nothing better to do, he adopts a strange accent and ethnic hat and is reborn as Bang-ga (a twist on his family name) from Bhutan, and immediately lands a job at a chair manufacturing factory. Despite a shaky beginning ― due to his unredeemable clumsiness, rather than doubts about his alleged Bhutani roots that are all too convincing ― Tae-sik gets along with his co-workers, and even starts romancing the lovely Jang-mi from Vietnam. He is even voted to become president of a migrant workers labor union and competent Korean language instructor, and joins in a harmonious effort to win a local singing competition for foreigners.
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The book follows the evolution of mankind as it shapes surviving Purgatorius into tree dwellers, remoulds a group that drifts from Africa to a (then much closer) New World on a raft formed out of debris, and confronting others with a terrible dead end as ice clamps down on Antarctica. The stream of DNA runs on elsewhere, where ape-like creatures in North Africa are forced out of their diminishing forests to come across grasslands where their distant descendants will later run joyously. At one point, hominids become sapient, and go on to develop technology, including an evolving universal constructor machine that goes to Mars and multiplies, and in an act of global ecophagy consumes Mars by converting the planet into a mass of machinery that leaves the Solar system in search of new planets to assimilate. Human extinction (or the extinction of human culture) also occurs in the book, as well as the end of planet Earth and the rebirth of life on another planet.
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Cyclic drift is the mechanism of long-term evolution that changes the functional characteristics of a language over time, such as the reversible drifts from SOV word order to SVO and from synthetic inflection to analytic observable as typological parameters in the syntax of language families and of areal groupings of languages open to investigation over long periods of time. Drift in this sense is not language- specific but universal, a consensus achieved over two decades by universalists of the typological school as well as the generativist, notably by Greenberg (1960, 1963), Cowgill (1963), Wittmann (1969), Hodge (1970), Givón (1971), Lakoff (1972), Vennemann (1975) and Reighard (1978). To the extent that a language is vocabulary cast into the mould of a particular syntax and that the basic structure of the sentence is held together by functional items, with the lexical items filling in the blanks, syntactic change is no doubt what modifies most deeply the physiognomy of a particular language. Syntactic change affects grammar in its morphological and syntactic aspects and is seen as gradual, the product of chain reactions and subject to cyclic drift.
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