Word: antic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Two antic newlyweds, plus a Hungarian gourmet and a pill-popper from New Jersey, amusingly find happiness in a bewildering New York brownstone...
...smoky anguish of Alec Guinness' eyes, and it gives him the look of a man ravaged by the pain of being and the dread of not being. Perfectly miming every state of alcoholic disequilibrium, Guinness does a dance of death at ever-varying tempos. It can be antic, as when he pats the bottom of an Old Howard burlesque stripper in Boston, and reminds her that he will be reading his poems at Radcliffe. It can be a gallant agony of slow motion, as he disciplines drunken legs to march to the podium on his reading tours. It becomes...
Arthurian Cocktails. T. H. White, who died last week of a heart ailment at 57, was Merlyn. A blue-eyed, white-bearded six-footer who looked like an antic Elijah, he shared with the magician a hunger for knowledge and a delight in conveying it to others. A complex, lonely, compassionate man, he believed with Merlyn: "The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting...
...their offbeat reputations, such judges are also capable of making practical use of their antic imaginations. Judge Gillis, the crystal ball man, reached a Solomonic judgment in the case of two men brought before him on charges of shooting dice. When the judge asked who owned the dice, each defendant pointed to the other. Gillis then ordered the policeman who was holding the dice to return them to the owner. One of the accused men reached out his hand. Gillis briskly pointed a finger at him and said: "Thirty days...
...ESTABLISHMENT. Some antic Britons wield the rapiers of satire with precision and glee as they commit merry mayhem on pompous personages and reverential attitudes...