Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needs no improvement. Later, getting a clear fix on Natalie's decolletage, he makes a pass in the offhand manner of a man who takes his love the way most people take after-dinner mints. But Actress Wood matches McQueen quip for quip, twitch for twitch, shrug for shrug, smile for winning smile. Both coruscate with the sparkly stuff of which movie stars are made, and their final clinch in front of Macy's Herald Square, proves again that after all is seen and done Hollywood still produces the best brand of boy-meets-girl-meets-girl...
...river bank, known as "le Beach," for the ferry ride over to Brazzaville, Adoula's cops decided to stop them on the way back and find out what they had been up to. Surrounding their car at the landing stage, Congolese police insisted on a search. With a shrug, the Russians opened the trunk, then let them look in the front and back seats...
...embassy until Khrushchev emerged, batted her eyes at him, and charmed him into agreeing to an interview. Later at the U.N., while Khrush was fixing that loose heel on his right shoe, Lisa was talking her way onto the Assembly floor. When the session ended, she cornered Khrushchev. He shrugged, took her downstairs, and taped a recorded interview with her that lasted one hour and 48 minutes. People often shrug and acquiesce when attacked by Lisa; it seems the easiest...
Such a book cannot be dismissed by a shrug of criticism. But perhaps the best thing to do would be to remember the real children and forget the book's theological homunculi in their barbed-wire playpen...
...seemed, was to help topple Rudolf Slansky, the party leader who was hanged in 1952 along with ten other Reds on trumped-up charges of espionage and treason. This was irony indeed, since Novotny himself was a ringleader in the 1952 blood bath. Old Stalinist Novotny could not shrug off his own guilt so easily, nor could he escape blame for the country's current economic woes. In the prevailing mood of cautious destalinization among Czech comrades, Novotny himself might be the next to go. For the first time he had a serious rival. Replacing Siroky as Premier...