Word: sidelong
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...apartment. Alexandre has a kind of glib charm. He is garrulous, eccentric, at ease with his chronic unemployment, and exhilarated by the way in which he can play off his women against each other. For themselves, the women accept his rules and compete for Alexandre with a sort of sidelong intensity that ends one dismal night in a disputed ménage à trois and an attempted suicide...
...pure Morris: the best (the sidelong wit and the marvelously supple prose, now gold, now grit) along with the worst (the wooden dialogue, the coy hints at profound meanings that never quite come out from behind the prose screens). More than any of his 17 previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy...
Some think that Anderson's future may be larger than Minnesota. Both of the state's Senators, Humphrey and Mondale, have sidelong presidential ambitions for 1976. If neither tries, then Anderson's path to the U.S. Senate is blocked?Humphrey, then 65, would be sure to run again in 1976, and Mondale is not due to run until 1978. Anderson himself faces re-election next year. If he wins well, he could become a serious contender for Vice President on the '76 national ticket?with anyone, of course, except a fellow Minnesotan. Being young, Midwestern, Protestant and a Governor...
...change. The clenched dictum promulgated in Jesuit schools, Age quod agis (Do what you are doing) begins to seem like a narrow tunnel vision, tempting sidelong glances at the confusing larger world...
...what little spare time he had." En route to Montauk, Long Island, for a weekend at Cavett's country home, Winfrey discovered that Cavett takes advantage of every moment. Driving his station wagon northward along Route 27, the performer managed to catch his own show by taking sidelong glances at the portable TV balanced precariously on Winfrey's knee. But once in Montauk, the two behaved like seaside vacationers. Cavett took Winfrey on a Jeep tour of the area's swamps and dunes, then to view a local exhibit of Indian arrowheads...