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Word: shrug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly a decade, Dern has been playing featured parts in everything from The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant to The Cowboys, and this kind of apprenticeship has taught him how to turn a scene with a shrug or an inflection. Now, with the rich role of Jason, Dern's talents can really unfold. He has an almost combustible uncertainty that shades Jason's assurance with doubt and intimations of defeat. Dern also moves Jason beyond the more obvious pyrotechnics to which the script has confined him, and the scene in which he embraces an embarrassed Nicholson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winter Dreams | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...chuckle at Watergate. The war is too horrible to think about. We are alienated from each other. We no longer care for our neighbors, or for people dying around the world. We know Government is corrupt, but we simply shrug. We don't care any more. Richard Nixon, in four years, has been able to pull off what no outside power ever could-the crushing of the spirit of the American people. McGovern represents new hope, but we have been hurt once too often. And so we will vote for four more years of Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1972 | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

Outside the Stadium on the other hand. Harvard coach Joe Restic gloated over his team's very impressive performance. "I've got no first string quarterback," he said, with the happy shrug of a shiek making his nightly decision outside the harem...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Sophomores Star as Crimson Stops Brown in a Scrimmage | 9/20/1972 | See Source »

Outside the Stadium, on the other hand. Harvard coach Joe Restic gloated over his team's very impressive performance. "I've got no first string quarterback," he said, with the happy shrug of a shiek making his nightly decision outside the harem...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Sophomores Star as Crimson Eleven Rips Brown | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...room is very cold," I said. With a shrug of his shoulders and a gesture toward the street, he replied. "Well, my son. it's very cold outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1972 | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

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