Word: wolfishly
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Before the sun comes up, furniture is overturned, leftovers smeared, a door splintered by knives and the air filled with wolfish howls. The revels end on a note of Maggie and Jiggs, with the woman of the house surveying her fouled nest and beaning her husband with...
...obsession into his all-too-brief characterization of the dope-smoking, corduroy-clad English professor. The scene in which he and three students conspiratorially share a joint in his darkened cottage is one of the most effective in the film, thanks largely to Sutherland's knowing grins and his wolfish, slightly stoned expression. Karen Allen charms as Katy, the girlfriend of one of the Deltas who thinks the whole gang is incredibly childish, if funny. And Tom Hulce and Stephen Furst as, respectively, the nerdy and corpulent freshmen pledges who first gawk at, then engage in, the wildness...
...lien, the regional commander of the capital military district; Saifudin, former chief of the Sinkiang-Uigher Autonomous Region; and the late K'ang Sheng, onetime internal security boss. The minigang members have also been blasted by the Teng-controlled People's Daily, which has called them "hyenas, wolfish animals." The four, along with other backers of Mme. Mao, have also been attacked as the "wind faction," "slip-away faction" and "coverup faction." Meaning: they have bent with the wind, crept away from difficulties and concealed their crimes...
...invention of one man-Frank Lloyd. The style, in its secrecy, luxuriousness and finely tooled indifference, is a corporate version of his own, writ large. At 61, Lloyd is tanned by the Caribbean and tailored like a German banker, a diminutive block of energy, velvety charm and wolfish flair for business. He is also a showman, and every detail of Marlborough's presentation comes under his supervision. Nothing gets left to chance or whim. Thus when selling a Modigliani or a Picasso in Japan, Lloyd reveals it to the client in a lined box with a lid instead...
...still moves around with the same wolfish swagger that drugstore idolaters everywhere have tried to imitate. Yet there is a discernible difference in the Namath style. He now says things like "I pray every night when I go to bed -when I can." Like wayward Tom, Joe Willie has cheated the various nooses that could have slipped round his neck-by the simple expedient of growing...