Word: shrug
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...that several of the victims used to bed down with him on the library lawn where one of the murders took place: "I want this guy bad. He's already got three of my buddies. But why kill winos? What does he want?" Some of the younger men shrug it off. "Long as he doesn't bother me, I ain't got nothing against him," says Gilbert Stewart, a 27-year-old Texas black. Others are too far gone to care. But many admit that for once they are worrying about more than their next slug...
Bell's letter deserved a serious response from Harvard officials, but so far that response--publicly, at least--has been a slightly piqued, can't-be-bothered shrug...
...Francisco. The camera is painfully close, and man, is he wasted. One brilliant critique of society (and here, the law, as he reads the transcript of one of his trials) after another, and all he can do at the end of each rap is give a beaten shrug and a desperate laugh and say, "Weird...
...made it sound something like the American movement against the Vietnam war, though it's possible I'm reading into things. In any event, young people who did go through the Cultural Revolution seem pleased if you ask about it, but after the first laugh a lot of them shrug, as though it's a hard period to summarize. "We ran all over the country telling workers what to do and gradually losing some of our arrogance," one former Red Guard said. "I was on the train," said another. "There were many people on the train." For a while...
...shrug this off with a cynical, "Well, the Gallo pamphlet was probably a pack of lies," or an, "After all, the leftists are right, so it's OK if they don't let Gallo be heard?" If the right to be heard has come to be dependent on any one group's assessment of the truth, free speech is dead. Our radical organizations may be correct today; if they are wrong tomorrow, how shall we let it be known? And if those on the far right manage to keep us from speaking tomorrow, how shall we of the left appeal...