Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fassbinder, though, the end-especially his own-must have been more a shrug than a suicide. In a preposterously prolific career (some 40 films, and many theater pieces, in 13 years), he had always viewed the soul's most traumatic ructions as blips on an electrocardiogram. The detachment was not merely ironic. Two mismatched mates could come together and drift apart, as they did in Alt: Fear Eats the Soul; a hard-won life could blow up in its heroine's face, as it did in The Marriage of Maria Braun; a cunning mind could schuss down...
What is clear, however is that minority law students must not shrug off the fact that 59 law students have figuratively crossed the picket line and enrolled in the boycotted class. The latter--who obviously care about civil rights -- is just the sort of group that must be won over for civil rights and affirmative action to press onward...
...editor of Commentary and hitman of the double-domed Right, dance wickedly on the grave of one of Edie's ancestors. Recall the night that Rock Star Jim Morrison paid sexual obeisance to Jimi Hendrix on the stage of Steve Paul's nightclub, the Scene. Watch Warhol shrug as a woman invades his Factory, takes out a pistol and shoots a hole through the foreheads of seven stacked Marilyn Monroe portraits-just a few years before Andy himself would be shot by another female intruder. Gobble gobble...
...wrist and barks: "You have herpes, don't you?" "If her pulse jumps, she has it," he says. "If she doesn't, she just laughs." Sometimes, of course, a woman is offended by his personalized lie-detector test. "I lose a few women that way," he says with a shrug, "but at least I don't have herpes...
...cheerful-looking man in rumpled pants and a short-sleeved shirt who during the school year directs the student orchestra at the State University of New York at Albany. As the rehearsal gets under way, he is asked how his 83 players are doing. He gives a "Who knows?" shrug, like a man who knows very well indeed, and grins happily. "Listen tonight...