Word: shrug
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...would have liked to discover it myself." Melvin Fisher, president of Key West's Treasure Salvors Inc., calls the Concepción "a fabulous find, a major discovery," but he cautions that Phips may have virtually exhausted the treasure after all. For now, Webber can afford to shrug off any doubts. His backers' investment of $500,000, he reports, "is already covered." And the salvage operation, confidently scheduled to last six months, has just begun...
...enumerating the reasons why Sophia alone could make his project take wing. Soon he noticed that she was paying only the faintest attention. Eventually the great actress explained: It was the Muppet hour, and she absolutely must see them. A blow to his ego, admitted Lord Grade with a shrug of his cigar, though not an unendurable blow, since Grade's ACC organization finances The Muppet Show. (Grade, who is short, bald and whimsical, by no coincidence strongly resembles Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, the mad scientist of the Muppets...
Outwardly, Ryan appeared calm and seemed to shrug off the attack. The visiting newsmen and relatives were alarmed. The colonists who wanted to flee were frightened. But the plans for departure proceeded. The party again headed down the rutty road to Port Kaituma, where the two aircraft awaited them...
...camera might not be kind to her. Her strong jaw, aquiline nose, and high cheekbones are riveting, rather than cover-girl cute. Much of her appeal stems from her continuous movements: the shrug of a shoulder, the toss of a stray curl, the arch of an eyebrow. Her hands are especially graceful, whether swimming gently in the air to punctuate her speech, or flinging back a scarf in an Isadora Duncan-like gesture. The interviewer drinks in the entire picture--the jawline, the blacks and purple clothing, the dark eyes set in white skin--and a one-word impression forms...
Even before the murder, she is trapped and knows it - and does not care. Her response to hopelessness is a drink and a shrug. She lets herself be picked up by a rich young man. After they have slept together, it is clear that he expects to pay her; but with a fine gesture she takes some wadded franc notes from her purse, drops them on the bed and leaves...