The Atlas is not a book; it is a manifesto, a set of principles and convictions aimed at shaking new life and belief into a field that too often fears for its own future.
After an ominous encounter with a Hasidic man in the subway, Jonah, intoxicated at a party, has the first of a series of disturbing visions — a flood consuming Manhattan, a sidewalk full of naked pedestrians — that end up shaking his life, despite his efforts to ignore them.
"This is shaking my life to the core — such a blow for me and my family," said Irina Mysachka, 32, a single mother who is a supervisor at the Shangri-La Casino in Moscow, which appears as orderly and preened (if your tastes run to fire-breathing neon dragons and other Oriental kitsch) as any similar luxury attraction in the United States.
Consider shaking your life up a bit.
During that time, I've had the opportunity to be with people for their most ecstatic, ground-shaking, life affirming moments.
He'd been in the United States only about eight years when he performed an autopsy that would shake his life as much as football shook the life, and the brain, of that man on the autopsy table.
Like any artist, Mr. Jacobs has shaken down life for what it can give him.
This game is suddenly super-open, the Uruguyans shaken into life.
Shaken into life by the popularity of the iPhone, Apple's competitors are snapping at its heels.
By now, he's played the stereotypical role of the crime reporter for so long that he can't shake the life style.
