Word: shrug
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Kundera's people face a shared dilemma. Should they try to remember, when the memories of happier times only mock the bleak, estranged present? Would it not be more sensible to shrug off the past, to laugh it away? No simple answers emerge...
...once wandered? Sagan also issues some open challenges. To creationists, who argue for a biblical interpretation of life's beginnings, he states that evolution is not a theory, it is a fact. As for reports that creatures from other worlds have landed on earth, he dismisses them with a shrug. Astrology, Sagan insists, is a fraud...
...figurehead. Choi finally stepped down on Aug. 16, and a week later General Chun duly resigned his commission, in legalistic conformity with the constitution, which bars military men from the presidency. "He was the only guy for the job," a Western diplomat said with a shrug. "When Korea needs stability, the fellow with all the guns simply has to be President...
Shortages may be the most obvious problem, but Poland's economic malaise cuts much more deeply. When the trains do not run, or the electricity goes off, or a project remains unfinished, the response by workers is a shrug of the shoulders and the disclaimer, "To nie jest moja wina" (It isn't my fault...
...solos-some intricate, others almost blasting in their power-are threaded throughout. Like a young god, he summons up one girl (Lesley Collier) for himself. They dance divertissements that are like games. Baryshnikov is thrown high into the air. He lands, turns and gives the audience a shrug similar to the one Puck gives at the end of Ashton's The Dream. The rhapsody is over...