The rapid ejection of this jet of water enables the animal to execute quick backward and forward movements.
I chose to believe it, despite a quick backward glance at the table, which held a brandy snifter, a wine bottle, and a beer mug, all of which had been recently emptied into Nicol.
Entire worlds open up for the viewer in simple movements like a slow turning of a carefully held hand or a quick backward glance, the performer's chin ducking below her shoulder as she widens her eyes with enigmatic emotion.
Because with that quick, backward step, which occurs during Tom Wingfield's opening monologue in the gorgeous new production of "The Glass Menagerie" at the American Repertory Theater, something both momentous and commonplace has happened.
Despite his formidable record at communicating emotion, Taylor chooses his words with an almost professorial deliberateness, inflected by quick backward looks in the rearview mirror of self-consciousness — his style is equal parts self-mocking, cosmic, and precise.
Heavy black curtains part, revealing the dancers, who wear matching striped shirts and contrast still positions — one arm or both are raised — with quick, backward walks that skitter in curving paths across the floor.
