Word: shrug
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...unexceptional collection is titled 'Forbidden Planet." Intergalactic warriors plan to destroy the earth by giving a small switch-box to a human, with the warning not to pull the switch. They fly out of range and wait for the inevitable, but they haven't counted on anomie. With a shrug the guy throws the box into the river and walks...
...shiftless nigger . . . an' if I chop him down quick, then dey holler dat po' man up dere fightin' a go-rilla!" When white folks watch, Jefferson plays animal or vegetable. The 250-watt Satchmo grin flicks on at will, the massive shoulders shrug at circumstances beyond comprehension. But under the actor is the lava of black rage. When it erupts, the other players are inflamed. When Jane Alexander appears with Jones, she is a common-law Desdemona, the only believable white character in the film...
Still, the necessity to serve both God and Caesar weighs heavily on many churchmen. Others philosophically shrug it off, with the ancient and oft-repeated Rumanian proverb: "He who lowers his head avoids the sword...
...close enough that the vote took all night, and it wasn't until late the next morning that Tunney wrapped it up for sure. George Brown held a post mortem press conference, and somebody asked him what he would do after his term in Congress is over. A shrug, a lift of the eyebrows: "I haven't thought about that." Fifty years old. out of a job-and he shrugs. That's George Brown...
...Some of them have been working for 16 years, and they just shrug their shoulders and say, 'Oh, well, a better day is coming,' " observes Larry Howard, 22, a Wichita State senior. "In Wichita, the peckerwood studies you and finds out where you're most vulnerable, and then he cuts you deeper. This is deeper than the way it's done in the South, and it isn't as open. There they say, 'Nigger, I don't like you, so what you gonna do about it?' Here they smile in your face...