"I think that movie could have been 'The Searchers' of action films," Gilroy says.
Percussionists, too, are used to fashioning new instruments and tweaking the tools of their trade, and are noted searchers of fresh sounds.
Still, men—"stirrers abroad and searchers of the most remote parts of the world" as Richard Hakluyt put it dreamt on.
The searchers of the last century have been displaced by the gourmands of today, who write as often as not about the dumplings in Hong Kong or the truffles in Provence — by those who tour, not travel.
And while its down-and-out male characters can seem like the kind of schlemiels found in George Saunders's work or the alcohol-scarred searchers of Raymond Carver or Denis Johnson, there is something entirely singular about them.
But the ninth-century searchers of the caves might well have found in the Book of Enoch the prophecy invoked by Jude as well as in a work that, as we shall later see, turned up among the first lot of scrolls a good many unknown psalms.
