Word: antic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the Fringe. Recipient of a rarely accorded Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics Circle, Beyond the Fringe is the finest revue in years. Four antic and articulate young Englishmen rip the comic stuffing out of nuclear defense, Shakespearean theatrics, and glibly patronizing...
Tammy Grimes's Cyrenne is a perkily perfect farceuse, a bedroom imp continually assuming antic positions with dry-witted composure. Edward Woodward's Percy is a plebeian prince of pathos. Under his toothbrush mustache lurks a toothy nervous tic of a grin with which he commits endless facial suicides of self-doubt. He is as simple as the wooden rattle (a soccer-game noisemaker) that he carries in his hand. A mere kiss from Cyrenne makes him act like a porpoise with convulsions...
Still, Ferrari Trecate's heart was clearly in the right place, and his opera had the antic appeal of an American tragedy written by an Italian who has never seen America. "My entire knowledge of American music is from the gramophone records I listen to in Parma," the 78-year-old professor explained. "I have been to America only in my dreams. I will be happy if my opera is performed again, but I must admit that my greatest ambition is to write music for the films of Walt Disney...
...small-scale chain reaction is a strange and touching little first novel called Stern. It is giving Author Bruce Jay Friedman, 32, who has published some short stories and who works in Manhattan as editor of an adventure magazine, a coterie reputation as a new novelist with an antic imagination and a style to match...
Beatnik Boy Scouts. Though Russell at 90 commands the special brand of affectionate awe that the English reserve for all eccentric aristocrats and antic nonagenarians, his neutral-to-Nikita stand revealed to many what Economist Maynard Keynes once called "Bertie's ludicrously incompatible views" of man's fate. Unilateralism, which has often been defended in Britain as a kind of beatnik Boy Scout movement that helps channel youthful idealism, has also been badly tarnished in recent weeks...