Word: sidelong
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...Sarsaparilla see them? At first sight, it would seem that the old Confederate camp had moved to a last site in the real Deep South-Down Under; that the old Spanish-mosstroopers of Southern decadence ride again in New South Wales. White's celebrated style, in its sidelong, suggestive, subjunctive way, might nudge a reader to the conclusion that this is like early Capote or Tennessee Williams. And, somehow, White has contrived to convert a scrubby Australian suburb into standard Old South gothic. Moldering mansions are in short supply Down Under, but White does what he can with "gothic...
...Rudi Gernreich, whose topless suit provided the industry with welcome publicity but negligible sales, has engineered the "bib" suit, which comes loosely up over the middle of the bosom, but leaves the outer reaches marginally exposed, offering a new perspective to the girl watcher who prefers to sneak a sidelong glance rather than risk a head-on stare...
...MODERN LIVING cover story and eight pages of color photographs show, the story of urban renewal is one that develops over a period of years and spreads all across the country. With a sidelong glance at his front-of-the-book colleagues who were preparing to get out our Election Extra edition this week within hours after the polls close,* Editor Baker said: "Urban renewal is slow news but it is big news, and it might just have more to do with the way we live than the election...
...blonde (Vitti) in a bed sheet-the Vadim trademark-then repeats the obligatory routine with a brunette (Hardy). What he conveys, at last, is a boyish conviction that these bored, civilized votaries of pleasure might be just the sort for a fun weekend, but no longer. Sagan's sidelong glance at the enigma of women, in Vadim's view, is no enigma at all. It is merely a nutty, naughty peep show...
...flat as a list of over-the-counter quotations, Actress Remick and Leading Man James Garner almost save the day. Garner, who used to be TV's Maverick, has an easy comedy style that departs from the current vogue for hard-breathers. His approach to sex is sidelong-frank, half-innocent curiosity mixed with a twinkling suspicion that the whole durn thing might be some kind of a trick. To help Garner feel at home off the range, Remick comes on as a clotheshorse. Though her head is supposedly full of Universal Widget, she wears Norman Norell originals...