Word: sidelong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't work very well in a serious life. The thing about the present is precisely its confused instability, its blurriness, its sleight-of-hand. Now you see it, now you don't. It is a fog of particles in motion, a montage of denial and fantasy and sidelong perception. And therefore a most congenial medium for the current President...
...support his habit. Painfully withdrawn, he says, "I've been doing a little talking now." And planning: "I always wanted to own my own fish market, and now I want to live up to that dream." The couple is set to wed. Once off crack, Jones explains with a sidelong glance at Mayes, "I finally saw what a beautiful woman she is." "Don't mind if I blush," says Mayes, breaking out in a broad grin and bouncing her pig-tailed one-year...
...they have begun to carry a powerful message. At the G.O.P.'s weekly Senators-only lunches, some Republicans now avoid sitting near him. When Packwood's colleagues gather for votes on the Senate floor, they hardly ever include him in their convivial chatter. Rarer still is the consoling sidelong murmur he used to hear so frequently: "How's it going, Bob?" The message is evident to everyone, it seems, but the Senator himself, who believes collegial sympathy may be his salvation. "A number of them are praying for me," he says. "And I am convinced that the prayers of others...
...flip side of his folkie heart. For Eric Clapton it amounts to a return to the blues. But there are no elder statesmen to be heard on Young's new album, Sleeps with Angels, or on Clapton's From the Cradle. These are two paragons, playing and singing with sidelong majesty, determined not to let themselves get ossified into legend...
...sidelong and subliminal way, men have become the Evil Empire, or, anyway, the ancien regime. We are "They," "Them," "the Enemy." The "manly" virtues (bravery, strength, discipline and, egad, machismo itself) remain admirable only by being quietly reassigned to women -- to Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton...