Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very agonizing years" trying to apply psychoanalytic teachings to child care. Spock knew that early toilet training, for instance, could cause severe psychological problems, "but when I'd turn to my psychoanalytic mentors and say, 'What do you think you should tell parents about toilet training?' they'd shrug their shoulders." He found himself giving advice before he was sure that it was right. "I would give the best answer I could think of and then eagerly question the mother when she brought the baby back a month later," he recalls. "So I really learned it all from mothers...
...because "she happens to be an excellent judge of quality shirtwear." Welcome to the decade of lowered expectations, which Rob Reiner's meandering direction fully satisfies. The Sure Thing aims not to blaze trails but to avoid the gross failings of its predecessors. All right, then. In teenpix a shrug is better than a shudder...
...other Italian artist of the day had such mastery of gesture. Caravaggio was a minute observer of body language: how people move, slump, sit up, point and shrug; how they writhe in pain; how the dead sprawl. Hence the vividness of Abraham's gesture in The Sacrifice of Isaac, holding his wailing son down on a rock like a man about to gut a fish, even though the landscape behind them is Venetian in its pastoral calm. In The Supper at Emmaus, the characters seem ready to come off the wall, as Christ makes his sacramental gesture over the food...
...student could only shrug. "Not to worry, not to worry," said the professor. "Plenty of my sharpest students just don't have a mind for economics. Suppose I ask you this How do you think the moral precepts of the Jacobeans influenced foreign policy in England...
...three-day emasculation seems an unnecessary blow to a failing institution; extra lectures, labs and reading assignments already threaten to obliterate the distinction between Reading Period and any ten days in October. Explaining the demise of the once sacred fourteen days, officials can only shrug and point to a capricious calendar. "The fall term" Registrar Margaret E. Law said this week, "is a real mess because of Christmas and New Year's. If the term starts late in September, then technically reading period should start before New Year's but Christmas is Christmas and New Year's is New Year...