Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screen split. On one side of it, Ronald Reagan was seen ambling sidelong and smiling across the South Lawn of the White House. He waved to an off- camera crowd, deflected shouted questions with a shrug, and at the steps to his helicopter, smartly saluted the Marine guard standing at attention...
...dropped out of Monmouth College, where she had played basketball on scholarship, and later became Whitney's personal assistant. They share a North Jersey flat with a view of Manhattan. Because of their easy intimacy, the tattle mill has ground out the story that they are lovers. Both women shrug off the rumor. Says Robyn: "I tell my family, 'You can hear anything on the streets, but if you don't hear it from me, it's not true.' " Whitney also alludes to family: "My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells...
Even after listening many times to works well-established in the classical canon, some will shrug and ask themselves what the fuss is all about. Such is life. But many people may find in the music of the classical "greats" something missing from other types of music...
...difficult to resist, impossible to shrug off as another mini-version of a high falutin' charity gala. Formal dress was not required, and neither was false piety or sentiment. It was a come-as-you-are, come-to-be-entertained affair. By making their show a fast-moving, talent-packed one, the Jazz for Life organizers served the audience as well as Oxfam America and the Phillips Brooks House Homeless Committee, the evening's charity beneficiaries...
...snore in bed, but only, as one of them explains, "to protect their women from wild animals." As for the French, who didn't invent love but certainly know how to market it, they negotiate their affairs with a roue's smile and a fatalist's shrug. C'est l'amour...