Word: cagey
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...slender TV-game-show contestants to start eating each other - or worse, the cameramen - they taunted them with pleasures of the tongue and teased out the greedy (Nick - could we stop feeding these people Doritos, please?), the foolish (Amber, falling for the glass-of-water "Mystery item") and the cagey. That last would of course would be Colby, holding out for a protein bar and laughing it up with Amber afterward when everybody started running for the john...
...argument is that many problem drinkers can be helped with this approach - people who think the total abstinence route taken by Alcoholics Anonymous is (in the cagey phrase) "not for them...
...psychiatrist who needs her head examined. She is sexually frustrated and has just lost two patients to suicide. What's more, she's infatuated with a new patient, Stanislaus Nagy, a disturbing young man who's fixated on Maria Callas. As this engagingly surreal short novel unfolds, the cagey Nagy claims to be the Devil, who apparently once inhabited Callas' poodle. Dulz's infatuation is propelled into obsession, and this can only lead to a bizarre denouement, in which, of course, there's hell...
...Knobler's troubles appear to have ended, but the "Breaking News" section of his site reveals that his painful experiences have made him cagey, even in the face of this story. On his new website he admits, "As I write these words, I am somewhat nervous about this article--I don't know how big it will be, or what lurid claims it will make...
Beatty's passion for policy resurfaced with Bulworth, a movie whose depressive Senator-hero first arranges his own assassination and then, with nothing to lose but his hypocrisy, starts spouting truth-telling rap songs about corruption. Was Beatty's performance really a rehearsal? Famously cagey and deliberate, Beatty isn't talking. Yet. But seasoned Washington figures such as Bill Moyers, Lyndon Johnson's former press secretary, and Pat Caddell, Jimmy Carter's pollster, are already giving the actor a fighting chance at doing for grass-roots liberalism what Reagan did for Goldwater conservatism. Skeptics abound, of course, but one crucial...