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Apart from enjoying the spectacle, many will appreciate the chance to sidle up to India’s most influential business family at the bar.

As Gefter writes, during the initial Broadway run, starring Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill, the playwright kept having to sidle up to director Alan Schneider to remind him of the material’s inherent humor: “Funny. Humor. Funny.”

A middle-aged man is trying to enjoy his lunchtime fish and chips on the Hastings seafront when a colony of half a dozen herring gulls - better known as seagulls - sidle up to him, trying to steal a bite.

Coppins writes that “Every time he publicly criticized Trump, it seemed, some Republican senator would smarmily sidle up to him in private and express solidarity. ‘I sure wish I could do what you do,’ they’d say, or ‘Gosh, I wish I had the constituency you have,’ and then they’d look at him expectantly, as if waiting for Romney to convey profound gratitude.”

The wig, which hung limply above a label stating that it had traveled to Paris from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh had a cheap, synthetic shine to it: an item that should have been innocuous, but was so evocative of its owners’ personality that it seemed as if it were about to crawl off its display board, sidle up to one of the older, less well-known wigs in the cabinet, and start making undermining remarks.