Word: shrug
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...with a cigarette, its tip bright in the early winter twilight. When I button the coat I imagine a button detaching under her hurried fingers and tumbling to the ground, imagine her pocketing it so that she could later sew it back on with heavy black thread. When I shrug off the coat I imagine her arms, an inch shorter than my own, sliding through its sleeves; I imagine the rough sweater that rubbed against the lining, leaving it fuzzy at the shoulders. I bought the coat last month, at a thrift store in my hometown; ever since, I have...
...Though Shah chronicles appalling scenes?three sisters are forced to watch the murder of their mother by the Taliban?they are pared down to a made-for-TV pathos that is too easy to shrug off. In contrast, Seierstad's women, victimized by a tyrannical system that has changed little since the fall of the Taliban, are complex and disturbingly unforgettable. Neither Seierstad's closed world of the Khan household nor Shah's war-rent Afghanistan make for comfortable reading, but both books offer a rare glimpse of life beneath the burqa in a land that is too often portrayed...
...feel like I personally know a lot of really talented musicians here, and a lot of the most talented ones don’t really have any publicity at all—I could just as easily not know them,” Maye says with a shrug of his shoulders. “So I think it’s a good idea for students to take into their hands the responsibility of exposing their fellow students’ music...
...cool.” Gardezi readily points out that his roommate also has a bubbly social side, the kind that reportedly keeps him out past 2 a.m. partying with other international students—and perhaps swapping numbers with Harvard females, whom Veljkovik describes with a shy smile and shrug as “pretty” and “more blonde” than back home...
...high school in Rock Springs, Wyo. After another girl outed her, Soule, then just 15, didn't try to hide. "And that actually helped... I just stated it and said, 'Yeah, this is who I am.'" She was never threatened. In fact, there was something of a school-wide shrug: many kids told her she was only trying to get attention in the wake of the Shepard murder, which had just occurred. And now, she says, "I actually get a lot more flak about being a feminist on campus than being bisexual...