Word: shrug
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This time De Gaulle spoke without notes; yet his thoughts were orderly, and his words precise. He spoke with quiet confidence, punctuated only by a shrug, the raising of an eyebrow, a majestic gesture of the hand. Only when talking of the bloodshed in Algeria did he show strain or emotion. "It should be known," said he, "that in four years in Algeria about 1,500 French civilians have been killed. More than 10,000 Moslems, men, women and children, have been massacred by the rebels-almost always by throat-cutting. What a hecatomb that country would know...
Glamour, in the despairing Berlin of the early '30s, wore the face of "a disillusioned child singing outside a public house." The voice was husky with melancholy, the song a loose shrug of defiance: // someone's going to kick, it's going to be me And if someone gets kicked...
Brigitte is still no comedienne. But she does make the most voluptuous straight man in the world, especially when playing with such pros as Boyer and Vidal. The film is not notable for witty lines, but with a glance, a shrug, an understated double take, the two actors have turned the airy little script into one of the most buoyant comedies of the season...
...land all but a handful of the most fervent idealists turn cynical, and only Communists consistently rejoice. Sett Rao. a hardworking, intelligent government official, who once dreamed that independent India would be "a decent country where decent people can live in decency and some dignity," now says: "I shrug; I laugh; I work. What else is there to do?'' Campbell traveled with Vasagam. another government agent, who was trying to implement the Gandhian ideal of equality for the untouchables. In a typical village he saw the higher castes stand sullenly by as Vasagam led untouchables into temples...
...Spain. But when he put his leadership of the Conservative Party into the balance against the party's other factions in the voting, the strong-willed ex-dictator, now 69 and weakened by a series of four heart attacks, easily won. "He is," Colombians explained with a shrug, "an institution...