Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electricity has soared from 18 billion to 45 billion kw-h. To curb demand, the government in the past five years has quadrupled the price of electricity for heavy users, although electricity for the poor is still subsidized. "We cannot pressure the poor," says Energy Minister Abaza with a shrug...
...mirrored purses backpackers bring back from Third World suqs. But the strain showed too. Some outfits, like a short ballerina-style skirt with a removable poofy apron, suggested that Lacroix was already feeling the weight of his considerable reputation and that it had already got too heavy just to shrug off. He was meeting his own standard, but not besting himself. He was, in a sense, just like every other designer this year: struggling with the challenge that his own success had set down...
...contrast, Czechoslovakia took an opening loss to West Germany with a gruff shrug. "They played with a bigger heart," said Jan Starsi, the Czechs' direct and wonderful coach. Surviving both the U.S. and its eight-year-old memory of the Lake Placid miracle, Soviet Assistant Coach Igor Dmitriev said, "We're very glad we won; our opponent was very strong. Our success was only thanks to our best efforts." And, referring to the spirited third-period comeback of the Americans, he added, "We forgot that here in North America, specifically in the U.S., they fight to the very...
...hero is twelve-year-old Ingemar (Anton Glanzelius), a dour, dimpled soul who could live by the maxim: Expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed. A tabloid junkie, Ingemar scans headlines for catastrophes that might put his own aggrieved existence into perspective. Reading them helps Ingemar shrug off his own doglike life: "It could have been worse." So his Mom is ailing, and his beloved pooch is sent on a terminal vacation, and the town's toughest athlete is a gorgeous girl (Melinda Kinnaman). Even for a boy in 1958, it could be worse. He seems to know...
...trouble is. I really can't keep shrugging these things off. Because this situation is not only annoying and saddening, but damn terrifying. And I'm not just talking about the threat of rape. Probably more Harvard men will rape someone than anyone of us would like to guess. I, for one, would like to guess that none would. But I also know this is not the case and that, in fact, some have probably already committed this crime. Let us assume, though, that "the guys we know" would never do such a thing. Somehow, this is not very comforting...