Word: antic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters, which, it may be argued, was Shakespeare's intent. The results are uneven, but dazzling and convincing at their best. Papp has drastically shortened the play to a running time of under two hours, compressing both plot and characters. The ghost is presented as an antic extension of Hamlet's own ego - epitomized in one scene in which Hamlet becomes a ventriloquist's dummy on his father's knee. Later, Hamlet also turns up as the Gravedigger, hiding behind a Latin accent; in this guise he delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy...
...magic, spectacle and mystery. He saw all men divided and torn on a Manichaean battleground of darkness and light, flesh and spirit, and he never lost his conviction that they danced at the end of fate's string. If his plays are sometimes episodic and full of antic despair, they also display the probing gallantry of quests. Ghelderode could say with his hero in Christophe Colomb: "Farewell, America, you were too easy to discover," and then go on voyaging to hidden continents of the human psyche...
...conservative Democratic votes that otherwise would have gone to Abe Beame; he scared many liberal Democrats into voting for Lindsay. In the campaign, however, he momentarily fascinated many liberals with some thoughtful proposals (a heavy inbound toll on Manhattan bridges and tunnels to reduce traffic into the city), some antic ones (building an overhead bikeway down Second Avenue so that New Yorkers could improve their muscle tone), and almost total political candor. Even that well-known liberal Groucho Marx said that if he were a New Yorker, he'd vote for Buckley. And he wasn't kidding...
...Ginger Baker, 28, is a dazzling drummer, perhaps the only one in the rock field who can sustain long, inventive solos. His crackling stickwork and splintered rhythms give Cream a complex yet driving beat that few rock groups can equal. An antic cockney, he drums on other things besides drums: on tours, he leaves behind a trail of hotel bills for damage to furniture and other property...
Thus last week in the mecca of mindlessness did the hippies proclaim their own demise. It was probably inevitable. Their every antic reported at length in the national and local press, their ranks swollen with thousands of "plastic" or part-time hippies, their language and life-style copied by "straight" society, the hippies of San Francisco have come to feel that hip is no longer a fun trip. As fall weather set in, the bloom went out of flower power, and last week's "Death of Hip" funeral was an attempt to purify the movement...