Word: antic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stated; the prisoner's name carries echoes of Roman civic virtue, the jailers' names are Russian, and the executioner is known (in an echo of the French Revolution?) as M'sieur Pierre. The prison itself is timeless, universal, born of an idea turned into phantasm. Its antic rules ("the management shall in no case be responsible for the loss of property or for the inmate himself"), the handless clock on which a watchman hourly paints in the hands, and, above all, the jailers' constant and somehow insane concern for the prisoner's welfare...
Leave It to Jane (Dot LP). Singer Jane Harvey, a girl who can put a promise in a pronoun, swings her way through some convincingly heart-frayed reveries on the loving game-Misty, Everything But You, Lover in the House. In more antic mood, she belts the bromides out of Sent for You Yesterday and Witchcraft...
...creating his determinedly unromantic lovers, Shakespeare as a comedy writer traded sighs for banter, nightingales for mockingbirds, antic humor for elegant wit. Benedick's first sniffy words to Beatrice-"What, my dear Lady Disdain-are you yet alive?"-could drop straight out of Congreve. As for their wearing their hearts on their fingernails, it is a truism that the pair of them-he all scorn for marriage, she all scorn for men-are so antagonistic for being so much alike. Fortunately, the dullards around them dream up one bright idea: they contrive that an eavesdropping Benedick shall hear that...
...Satyricon of Petronius, translated by William Arrowsmith. Antic haymaking in Nero's gaudy, bawdy Rome, described by a satirist who knew his satyrs...
...Girl. David Niven tries some motivational research on Shirley Mac Laine, a Raggedy Antic charmer...