Word: shrug
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...soliloquies that would make Peter Pan queasy. He calls his dog "noble steed," plays mincing bullfighter to a pickup truck, decorates a barn with painted flowers-and finally floats off to war. But all is probably well. Presented with such a pixie, the Army could do nothing but shrug its shoulders and issue a medical discharge...
...Arbiter was a pornographic satire written by Nero's whoremonger, a raucous tale of two worldly youths moving through the decaying strata of Roman society. Fellini lifted all of the characters but just a single episode from the book. The result, announces the director with a characteristically immodest shrug, "is about 20% Petronius and 80% Fellini...
AFTER years of living with the Wall, West Berliners last week accepted the eighth anniversary of its construction almost with a shrug. Local politicians and union leaders laid wreaths near places where refugees had been killed trying to escape from the East. A new political splinter group called for a night-time march to the Wall, to the point where in 1962 East German guards shot 18-year-old Peter Fechter and then left him on the ground to bleed to death. There were few marchers...
...talented troupe is Isabelle's much older sister, Marthe (Regine), a doughy redhead who believes that sex appeal, like flour, is measured by the pound. As Isabelle's hag-ridden father, Gregoire Asian can convey more with a lowered eyelid than most men do with a shrug of their shoulders...
...decline, as are such once-wealthy wildcatting communities as Overton, Henderson and Gladewater. "It's impossible to get risk money now," says Carter. Adds Jim Clark, a small operator: "People who don't understand the business become angry after a series of dry holes. An oilman will shrug it off if he can, put an X in his book, and go to the next...