After hanging up, I cast a sidelong glance at my profile in the glass booth.

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Mouth: Disagreement also shows up in compressed or pursed lips, clenched jaw muscles, or a head turned slightly away, so eye contact becomes sidelong.

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It can be a rather humbling process and it can spring some unwelcome surprises - I catch a sidelong glimpse of myself in the mirror, and I don't see me but my mum.

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"Man on a Ledge" is a movie that employs all the mechanics of a standard Hollywood thriller, while taking sidelong glances at the same voyeurism that fuels both the film and cinema itself.

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But, no, the name is actually an homage to the legendary Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx, and also a sidelong way for the owner, Christian Pappanicholas, a cycling fanatic who owns Resto, the Belgian restaurant next door, to summon the spirit of the hard-core carnivore.

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Typically, someone who is in agreement with you will smile and nod as you speak. (Disagreement shows up in compressed or pursed lips, clenched jaw muscles, or a head turned slightly away, so eye contact becomes sidelong.) But smiles are often used as a polite response and to cover up other emotions.

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The risk lies, rather, in something that the Lewinsky-Rwanda convergence shows: Clinton's willingness to use words as if he did not understand that they have real meanings and consequences, as if his intense, fleeting sincerity--his shoeshine and his smile, or his wagging finger, or sidelong laser glance, or his bitten lip: his sheer performance--were sufficient.

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