Word: antic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tumultuous days of the late 1960s, Abbie Hoffman led the antic wing of the revolution, where the anarchist politics came from Mikhail Bakunin, the media savvy from Marshall McLuhan and the spirit from Peter Pan. He liked to think of himself as a bridge between the New Left and the hippie counterculture, between "Off the pigs!" and "If it feels good, do it." He was never more himself than when he taunted the capitalists by showering dollar bills from the visitor's gallery onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange...
colleagues brace themselves for a knock-down, drag-out battle. -- Hugh Sidey calls on Wright to step aside. -- Are dull politicians the next big trend from California? -- Abbie Hoffman, the antic revolutionary, dies...
Accidents usually accelerate John Irving's antic plots and keep his readers tuned for what happens next. A Prayer for Owen Meany takes a somewhat different approach. Framed by the myth of victim as redeemer, the book removes guesswork without reducing expectations. One knows going in that the mischievous author is staging a kind of "Gospel According to Charlie Brown." But anyone familiar with Irving's mastery of narrative technique, his dark humor and moral resolve also knows his fiction is cute like...
...misguided excesses of idealistic youth with a Gallic shrug. That is why the furor over Dan Quayle's Viet Nam record has become such a polarizing issue. Once again the nation is reminded of all the unresolved passions of the 1960s, a time of both angry and antic generational rebellion, when national leaders were reviled, patriotism was mocked, and drug taking exalted...
...Breathing Lessons fits naturally into the landscape of her work. Some readers may be reminded of The Big Chill or even of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Not quite. Rather, < Tyler pays tribute to ordinariness the hard way: without benefit of her usual whimsy and antic inventiveness. Every page says, about as well as it can be said, that what you are reading about may not be wonderful, but it is life...