Word: shrug
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With the same offhanded shrug, he dismisses the spectre of such early-squandered arms as Bob MacCool and Wally Bunker. "It doesn't bother me. I'll just go out and do my thing once or twice a week. They're taking good care...
...Laughing is what one might have expected from Howar, The Last of the Southern Girls is a disappointment from Morris. Admirers of his editing career and his other books (North To ward Home, Yazoo) may not know what to make of it, unless they shrug it off as the indulgence of every man's right to do something silly to impress his girl friend. A few passages- earthy scenes from his heroine's childhood, vignettes of her stumping through a rural state with her Congressman lover-hint at the book that he might have written...
...even been born when Soviet troops tried to starve out West Berlin in the infamous blockade of 1948-49. Some of the youthful demonstrators melted into the beer halls along the way. Here and there, braless girls with sweaters tied around their hips joined in the march with a shrug and trudged along with shoulders back...
...What the hell," he added with a shrug, "If you can't beat their best you don't deserve to win--right? I won't get worried until they stop putting their best against...
...nearly a decade, Dern has been playing featured parts in everything from The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant to The Cowboys, and this kind of apprenticeship has taught him how to turn a scene with a shrug or an inflection. Now, with the rich role of Jason, Dern's talents can really unfold. He has an almost combustible uncertainty that shades Jason's assurance with doubt and intimations of defeat. Dern also moves Jason beyond the more obvious pyrotechnics to which the script has confined him, and the scene in which he embraces an embarrassed Nicholson...