By the time the officer advanced from his left, according to Wright, Crawford was "turned 30 degrees to the right," standing "almost in a catty-corner position, facing in an opposite direction to the direction they were coming".
Although Avrich can be wickedly clever -- as in "Chez Oedipus," a catty tour of the house of the incestuous royal patricide, or "Lady Macbeth, Prickly Pear Queen," a reimagining of the Scottish queen as a 20-century high-strung society gal -- she never loses sight of one of her signal themes, the tension between individual liberty and the forces working against it.
What's a Fashion Week (or the fashion industry in general) without a catty encounter or two...or three...or, well, you get the point.
We are in a hostage situation on the top of the hospital, which happens all the time". After an appearance in the 1983 movie "Stayin' Alive," in which she played a catty dancer who bewitched John Travolta, Hughes decided to move from England to California.
She later starred as the bright-but-innocent temp in Shooting Fish (1997), but it was her performance as a catty New York sophisticate in The Last Days of Disco (1998) which earned her serious plaudits.
In a notably catty column, Maureen Dowd described her colleague as a "woman of mass destruction"—a mild rebuke compared with what Times people say in private.This should serve as a powerful warning to the Republicans.
"Stuart has a Theory," Oliver says in a typically catty aside, "and I leave you to reflect for a few jocund nanoseconds on the inapt conjoining -- the miscegenation -- of the first and fourth words of this sentence".
His acting skills were sufficiently minimalist that years later he would be immortalized by a catty lyric in "A Chorus Line": "If Troy Donahue could be a movie star, then I could be a movie star!" Both stars were doomed in the 60's.
