Word: shrug
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...find these sweet mixes of cunning and convention throughout The Long Kiss Goodnight, a sleepy title for a swell turbo-thriller about a teacher with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side--her own macho twin--and uses it against those who made her what...
...sleepy title for a swell turbo-thriller about a teacher with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin, the 'Long Kiss Goodnight' is a sweet mix of cunning and convention. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave star Geena Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side and uses it against those who made her what she was. Like the heroine, the movie...
...nerves, which process information received from the neck, shoulders, arms and hands. When Reeve was thrown from his horse, he could move only his head. (Most head-turning muscles are controlled by nerves emerging from the brain, not the spinal cord.) Now, a year later, he is able to shrug his shoulders and breathe on his own for lengthening periods of time, which means that his first, second, third and fourth cervical nerves have begun to function again...
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana: Trying once again to shrug off his former titles as Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, David Duke is hoping for a new label: U.S. Senator. Duke entered the U.S. Senate race on Wednesday, promising to fight for America's white, Christian heritage if he's elected. "I am not a racist and not a Nazi sympathizer," Duke retorted angrily to questions about his past. Duke said his main focus will be to restore and protect "the prosperity, the heritage and freedom of this country." According to Duke's home page on the Internet, heritage...
...bound to the so-called meritocracy which has nurtured us, which has fostered our present selves, upon which our self-esteem has come, in part, to rely. Yet we are disenchanted by the limitations of the present in their finite realm. We cannot help but shrug our shoulders at the bottom line as the common denominator. We may ponder why there are so many songs about rainbows and what s on the other side, but we never really go that far in our search...