Word: shrug
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Talking to Diane Keaton is a bit like playing a record with an unmarked speed: it takes time to get synchronized. At the beginning she will hem and haw, whistle and giggle, mumble and fumble, shrug her shoulders and contort her face. She will start a sentence the way she might climb a tree, worried that the branches will crack or that she will climb too high and not be able to get back down. Gradually, as she gains confidence, the mumbles turn into words, the words into full-and even funny -sentences. "Diane is always totally surprised when people...
...would condemn him to another year of frustration. But he kept going. Cleveland Circle came, and the Citgo sign appeared and, he recalled, the next couple of miles were the toughest. As he told his story, it was clear he felt he had reached his "unattainable goal," and could shrug off the fatigue and pain and enjoy his victory...
...before, always retaining his easy good humor and calm assurance. As an ex-reporter, he seemed to understand why they had to keep asking the same questions, but as a newly nominated government official, he was also careful to give the same answer to each--a denial here, a shrug of the shoulders there, and a smile of I've-done-no-wrong innocence for all. Champion had endured these sessions too many times to blow it now. He was at his best...
...that they are alone is something of a misstatement, however. These comic Prosperos can conjure up whole casts with a mere wink of the eye or shrug of the shoulder. His face is a rubbery Halloween mask that can be anyone from Captain Hook in Peter Pan -another product of their collaborations-to a sailor in On the Town. She is the perfect counterpoise, an off-the-rack Garbo who would have turned even Camille into a wild giggle. Rarely has so much wit and fun been packed into two hours. To cop a line from another songwriter. Cole Porter...
Like Lorincz, a member of the Agudat Israel Party, most Israelis are appalled and ashamed by the recent epidemic of white-collar corruption in the Jewish state. A few cynically shrug it off as the predictable result of Israel's gradual shift away from the zealous Utopian socialism of its founders. No one, however, is ignoring the crimes and the accusations of crimes, which range from bribes of refrigerators and TV sets slipped to government workers to the outright theft of millions of dollars. Psychiatrist Hillel Klein argues that the shock of the scandals is particularly hard...