"dangling a cigarette"

[Michael Pugliese]

When asked to comment on the  possibility of
the Booker Prize contest accepting  American
applicants, the 1997 winner with "The  God of Small Things,"
declared, "I'm certainly not  intimidated by American writers."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/25/international/europe/25BOOK.html

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The Anti-American
by Ian Buruma

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