Word: shrugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...million a year, which makes Mansky, 28, one of Russia's new rich: he zips around St. Petersburg in a slick red Mazda and vacations with his wife in France and Spain. "If the Communists come to power--well, if that happens, it happens," he says with a shrug. "I am not stashing money or getting ready to flee. Of course I will vote, but there is not much choice. No matter what one might think of Yeltsin, he's the only one, because there is no one else...
...study abroad. But what if you realize in the second semester of your sophomore year that you would love to go to Florence for your junior year but have never taken Italian? I guess you can take day trips to Florence from England, but most likely you will just shrug your shoulders and say, "Oh well, maybe when I graduate." And yet, there is no way to know as a first-year that in two years you might desperately crave a break from oh-so-suffocating Harvard and crimson-tainted Cambridge...
...Birdcage has made Lane a movie star, but Forum shows his true home is the stage. On his shoulders--so eloquent in a shrug or a shudder--he carries this burly romp, and a good share of Broadway's hopes for a year worth singing about...
Gies' modest recounting of her daredevil acts makes goodness seem almost routine, the norm, in a time when monsters ravaged Europe. But that is Blair's point. In war as in peace, Anne's friends showed a bravery they might well shrug off as simple human decency. This harrowing, inspiring film--an antidote to Holokitsch--is their testament. It alerts us that villainy is the rank soil in which heroism can flower...