Word: sidelong
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There is a certain kind of glance women have always exchanged when something very important to them is being derided by the men in the family. Many of those sidelong looks have been exchanged since Geraldine Ferraro was nominated. Even female voters who do not support her as a candidate feel a bond with her as a woman. After the candidate spoke at a breakfast forum last week, three women from the fashionable eastern suburbs - a part of Cleveland where shopping can be taken up as a way of life - compared impressions. As voters they remained undecided. As women...
Stetson's sidelong Lady Di glances are engaging and coy, but she does not convey the flamboyance one might expect of a woman who finds the need to publish her memoirs at age 19. At times her voice leaves the realm of the play to rise to a higher level of detachment, like a narrator on her own life...
...Jennifer DeNuccio, a prototypical Valley Girl ("Like ... pass me out the door"); and a drama teacher who wants to stage a show called A Cafeteria Line and exhorts his aspiring actors to "share a trauma with me." Beatts, Friedman and their writers pack solid laughs, a little sentiment and sidelong satire of such youth-oriented enterprises as Grease and Fame all into a fleet half-hour. So far, Square Pegs is the sweetest surprise of the season. -By Jay Cocks
During the intermissions of Parsifal, a young woman with a small monkey perched on her left shoulder paraded among the patrons in dinner jackets and evening gowns, eliciting some sidelong glances but not much else. Throughout a performance of Lohengrin, two women in the audience held hands and caressed one another while onstage the pure knight sang of his love for the chaste Elsa. At the climax of Tristan und Isolde, one bejeweled lady was so overcome by the intoxicating music that she pitched backward into the laps of the unflappable listeners behind her. Richard Wagner, who caused...
...adolescence no one seems to enjoy any more. Writer-Director Bill Forsyth, working inexpensively on his native heath, is not one to confront life headlong and headon. He is a jogger not a sprinter, a man content to chug amiably along observing the world through a series of sidelong glances instead of driving single-mindedly toward a narrow goal...