Word: shrug
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Indeed, Fine approaches his craft with an intensity rarely seen in these parts. "When I do something, I want to do it well," Fine said, reclining on a couch in his Claverly room yesterday afternoon. "I want to win so much that I can't shrug it off. If there are people out there with me not giving everything they have, I just can't accept that...
...seats, Sandy's Jazz Revival in Beverly has plenty of them, and they all face the stage, on which the Salt City Six will be performing tonight through Sunday night. Barry Keiner is the featured pianist with the band. "Big deal," you say. "What do I care?!" you shrug. "Who the hell is Barry Keiner?" you ask. Stop talking and I'll tell you. Barry Keinner is none other than a former pianist with the Buddy Rich big band. That is not to say that Buddy will be in Beverly, but I understand that he had his pants pressed there...
...surface, Sadat's basic position has not changed. He refuses to speculate about what he would do if Egypt and Israel finally agreed to a declaration of principles and the other Arabs still refused to come in. "But it's hard to imagine that he would then shrug his shoulders and give up," continues Correspondent Wynn. "He regards the quest for peace as a sacred mission in the most literal sense?as a kind of special fate that he has accepted. The likelihood is that he would go ahead and make his settlement with Israel, leaving those blank spaces...
...least of psychoanalytic melodrama. But Tacchella seems to be convinced that eccentricity is the best measure of our humanity, some thing to be treasured and explored rather than deplored. His way is simply to record in quick sketches each little absurdity his camera catches, give a rueful Gallic shrug and move briskly on. If such a thing is possible, he is profoundly unprofound. People, he says, are prisoners of their generally misinformed ideas about themselves and about what constitutes happiness. But there is a cheery Catch-22: in their waywardness people probably do themselves no more harm, and very possibly...
...engagement. In that case, Ashley concludes, the contractual promises helped terminate a shaky match. And, he notes, the written word has coercive power: "There is a tendency to live up to a written promise?or at least to make a real effort to do so?when one might shrug off an oral commitment as mere conversation, the specifics of which had long since been forgotten...