What pork rinds were to the father, malapropisms are to the son — a gesture of cross-cultural solidarity.
Baumbach sees, in this gesture of cross-generational solidarity, a reflection of the support that Bogdanovich gave to Orson Welles in his later career.
"Happy Boy also deals with some of these complexities with the gesture of crossing one's legs.
He has adopted a gesture of crossing his arms, with his left hand in his glove and his right hand underneath pointing with the index finger while looking at the sky, which both honors The Holy Trinity as well as his late father who died of cancer when Wilson was 17.
While I agree that wearing makeup does not a fag make, the latent and pervasive fear of gays is undoubtedly the reason for people's reluctance to accept even small gestures of cross dressing without trying to stamp it out under the guise of "safety" and learning without "distractions".
The Cuarteto Latinoamericano offered Villa-Lobos's Seventh Quartet, Revueltas's thoroughly amiable Fourth and Osvaldo Golijov's passionate "Yiddishbuk," as well as, in a nice gesture of reverse boundary crossing, Steven Stucky's recent "Nell' ombra, nella luce".
As he elaborated, Harris showed the audience a covert smile that slowly widened until, eyes alight, she made the universal gesture of deletion, feathering a cross-cutting right hand across her throat.
Kathleen James-Chakraborty goes even further: "Above, in the most sublime gesture of all, floats a concrete cross brace, illuminated by clerestory windows.
Over in Hull, Mark Babych makes a cross-Pennine gesture of friendship, launching his artistic directorship of Hull Truck with Shelagh Delaney's Salford-set A Taste of Honey.
When she was several steps ahead of him, she yelled back at him to come up, and when he looked up, he told me he had to imitate our Catholic friends with his hand gestures of making a cross and asking for forgiveness.
As they waited to cross the street, several people touched the bike: a casual version of the gesture made by Catholics, of crossing themselves when they pass over a threshold.
