Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suited beauties with the word "Budweiser" written across their torsos and the phrase "label conscious" above their heads (this photo was an ad on the back page of the magazine "U." which was door-dropped Wednesday morning). A minor tremor of indignation went through me, but I tried to shrug off the image of those women. If you let yourself be upset by such things as that, you will spend a great deal of time being angry...
...only 73, or 43, or 13 percent. Then I thought, well, surveys are always questionable. Probably a lot of those guys were joking. Besides, since it would be caught, most of these guys probably won't try to realize this grotesque fantasy anyway. So maybe I could just shrug it off, just as I shrugged off those Budweiser maidens...
...game at Oakland, Safety Jack Tatum, the Raiders' most notorious hitter, collided with New England Receiver Darryl Stingley, leaving Stingley permanently paralyzed. Madden donned a surgical smock to stay with Stingley in the hospital that night and opened his home to the injured man's family. But, with a shrug, Madden minimizes the accident's part in his decision to quit coaching. He prefers to repeat a wistful anecdote about how he thought his 16- year-old son was still only twelve. "It was just time to go," Madden says. "There are only about ten years of emotional and physical...
Russian is a language spoken with the hands, the eyebrows, an occasional shake of the head from side to side or a shrug of the shoulders. Gorbachev has mastered those gestures, and more. He may slice the air with a modified karate chop or spin his hands one over the other like a pinwheel, then extend them palms up in a gesture of vulnerability, only to clench them into fists a moment later. All the time his intense eyes lock onto a listener's. The eyes, he once told an audience in Prague, never lie. Much of his animation comes...
...great, in fact, is the toleration required that grotesque aberrations of thought and behavior are routinely met with a shrug and a weary smile that proclaims your comfort: "Ah, diversity," your smile says as you pass the Lesbian Coffee House in the Dunster JCR. This, combined with a few other manners assimilated from wealthy classmates passes for sophistication around here and snobbery just about everywhere else. But the smile and the shrug really have to do with ignorance: an inability to distinguish what's distinctive and important...