Word: sidelong
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...screen split. On one side of it, Ronald Reagan was seen ambling sidelong and smiling across the South Lawn of the White House. He waved to an off- camera crowd, deflected shouted questions with a shrug, and at the steps to his helicopter, smartly saluted the Marine guard standing at attention...
...world stills, for the longest time. Then, at the edge of sleep, hyenas come to giggle and whoop. Peering from the tent flap, one catches in the shadows their sidelong criminal slouch. Their eyes shine like evil flashlight bulbs, a disembodied horror-movie yellow, phosphorescent, glowing like the children of the damned. In the morning, one finds their droppings: white dung, like a photographic negative. Hyenas not only eat the meat of animals but grind up and digest the bones. The hyenas' dung is white with the calcium of powdered bones...
...They wore cowboy hats (each hat distinctive, matching the weathered face) and belt buckles the size of a Roman's shield. They stood in dusty boots on the scrubby grass and drank strong black coffee out of plastic cups as the night came on. The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries. But shadows moved across the landscape...
...peacemaking efforts. In short, it is a fairly typical, that is to say awful, Yuletide season, and Comfort and Joy is a fairly typical, that is to say wonderful, Bill Forsyth comedy. As Gregory's Girl and Local Hero showed, he is a director whose best shots are sidelong glances, a writer whose best lines are murmured asides. In Bill Paterson, who plays Bird, Forsyth has the perfect spokesman for his dismayed, determined reasonableness. What he has again created is a unique product, the miniature souffl...
Further east, further down the economic scale, at the K mart on 65th Street, a woman in the check-out line flashes one of those sidelong looks that speak of revenge to be taken in the privacy of the voting booth. She says, "I'm from West Virginia. I find, in the family, it's the men who do most of the talking against having a woman Vice President. But hillbilly women stick together, you know what I mean? As my momma always said, 'The thread gets very thin, but don't ever give...