Word: shrug
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...watches the ground rush up to meet him or tastes the steel of a pistol-while another gives a shrug, takes a drink, or develops a manageable neurosis-is an enigma that has only recently received serious examination...
...that hurtle past like an insomniac's sheep, some woolly, some sheared and some weird. The evening is affluent with easy laughs, and yet curiously anemic in genuine humor. Lou Jacobi and Kay Medford are masters of ethnically styled comic delivery. He gives a line a built-in shrug. She is a one-woman keening committee, and her voice has a cold in its head. The couple's common burden is a Gentile nudnick of an embassy chief who has suffered every major disaster in his diplomatic posts except "a plague of locusts." An innocent abroad with...
From another viewpoint, some radical Christian thinkers shrug off Pike's intellectual wrestling with doctrine as simply uninteresting. "The younger men don't even raise the issue of the Virgin...
...fury blazing behind his tinted bifocals. In a private session with Ky, he once again demanded Loan's dismissal. Otherwise, Thanh would not accompany Ky to Manila. "So you want to leave?" Ky asked quietly. "What can I do?" The other six Cabinet members were given the same shrug. "If you want to resign," they were told, "we cannot stop...
...kids at this age are still just kids to each other." Friendships are quickly and easily formed, and some white children eagerly wait outside school each morning until the bus from the city arrives. In high school, white children tend to be more reserved in their welcome, and some shrug off the presence of newcomers with such noncommittal phrases as "they don't bother anybody." On all levels, there is occasional tension. A Negro girl in a Cincinnati suburb complained that white girls pulled her hair and asked: "Is that a wig?" When a Rochester Negro boy pulled...