Word: cageyness
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...people, particularly students, to convey a sense of awareness to the Westerner, a feeling that, as one East Berliner put it, "We're not being taken in. We have both feet on the ground." Bitterness or anger at the Russians was really absent in these cases, replaced by a cagey cynicism about global power politics...
...this movie. Her Majesty appears in a pivotal supporting role, opening Parliament, while an Irishman named Hennessy (Rod Steiger) is on the premises, about to blow the whole place skyward. The Queen's appearance is constructed entirely out of newsreel footage of the actual event, which the cagey film makers have intercut with their elaborate fictions. This has been accomplished so deftly, however, that the Queen appears to look up sharply as Steiger and Hollis of the Yard (Richard Johnson) struggle off to her left. Now, times are hard, and there is continuing debate over whether the royal family...
...meaning of European fascism. But Amarcord never becomes preoccupied with the phenomenon. Fellini works the politics evenly and gracefully into the fabric of the whole movie and portrays fascism as a crackbrained aberration that allowed for some moments of ritual absurdity even as it brought forth a kind of cagey, half-comic defiance. One of Amarcord's most memorable episodes concerns the playing of the socialist anthem from atop a church steeple, an incident that is part practical joke and part moral gesture; it implies a kind of human resiliency more moving than any call to arms...
...Cagey Weaseling. In practice, says former U.S. Prosecutor Gary Naftalis, the Government must also answer a question invariably in jurors' minds: "Why would a person he?" Usually the contention has been that the defendant was trying to conceal a criminal act. Consequently, most perjury charges are brought in conjunction with other criminal allegations. Such a coupling of charges can be a useful prosecution tactic. Quite often, the available evidence is not adequate to get a conviction for the original criminal act, but in front of the grand jury the defendant may have contradicted himself or others so much that...
...person being questioned take sure refuge in familiar evasions like "I do not remember" or "to the best of my recollection." Cagey use of such weaseling can make a later prosecution for lying more difficult, but not impossible. Indeed one of the charges on which Dwight Chapin was convicted was for his claimed failure to remember details of his dealings with Political Saboteur Donald Segretti. The legal theory traces back to the Queen's case in 1820, in which a footman was suspected of having had a lengthy affair with Queen Caroline. Questioned about the matter, a fellow servant...