Word: sidelong
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...only possible redemption for all this is the tour-de-force performance by Julie White as the hyperkinetic agent. She certainly delivers a skillfully articulated comic turn: fast, physical, full of double-takes, grimaces, sidelong shudders and other nonverbal expressions of barely suppressed hysteria. But White seems to have simmered a bit too long in her critical raves; it's a look-at-me performance that simply overwhelms the play. On the other hand, this is a play that is painfully easy to overwhelm...
What is it exactly that we see in Grant Wood's stern old farmer and the woman at his side with her strange, sidelong glance? Is this an image of enduring Midwestern probity or a satire of small-town small-mindedness? Wood, who recruited his 30-year-old sister and his 62-year-old dentist to pose for him, preferred to insist that his interest was just painterly. This book traces the impact and changing meaning of the iconic image through its 75-year history...
...rich run of sequels: Boones, Berras and Bells. But not even in a Grapefruit season had two generations ever come to the same stage at the same instant, until Brian singled and stole second in the first inning and Hal followed with a walk. Pausing only for the usual sidelong glance of teammates on base, they both went on to score in a 7-5 Kansas City Royals victory over Philadelphia...
...center of films, books, plays, paintings, songs, intellectual life. It has not always played the same part. In the years immediately after Hiroshima, the public seemed not to want to confront the Bomb directly, and so created a culture in which the end of the world was given a sidelong glance. Lately, we cannot seem to get enough of the Bomb, and stare with a hypnotic fixation...
...majority reaction of the era, however, still was not to look squarely at what was feared. Literature took a very sidelong glance. In what other age would the perpetually haunted and displaced hero have emerged with such stature? In what other age would a writer like Kafka have been made so welcome: characters lost in and tormented by agnostic society, unaware of the location and identities of their enemies, feeling peril and persecution for unspecified crimes, and yet not innocent either...