Word: antic
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...have the edge of desperation that would have given it depth. Butley's life ravels like the end of his shirtsleeve; it conies undone in the single day we watch him. But Gray is less successful at evoking anxiety than in getting down the sort of dizzy, antic quality of academic life...
...fashioned with a wonderful skill and high humor. A translation of Dumas' story, even a fairly respectful one, it is simultaneously a satire, sometimes antic, sometimes serious, a send-up of the whole tradition of romantic fiction. Such an accomplishment seems paradoxical, but the movie successfully cuts both ways, largely because Richard Lester is a film maker who specializes in standing paradox...
...long line of antic British bestiary writers-Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, A.A. Milne, Kenneth Grahame, J.R.R. Tolkien-must now be added Richard Adams, Oxford graduate, British army veteran and recently resigned assistant secretary in the Department of the Environment. This talking-rabbits novel, his first, was rated flayrah ("unusually good food, e.g., lettuce") by the palates of English readers, who made it a bestseller and called it a classic-to-be. How will American readers like their existential Peter Rabbit? Probably less...
...this production a special bow should go to Director Stephen Porter, who keeps the pace as antic as a berserk windup toy. Should you care to get intoxicated on laughter, Chemin de Per is a madcap nightcap of a show. T.E.K
...reckoning, Joan Miró is probably the greatest living painter, at least of the generation that produced Picasso, Matisse, Gris and Dali. Amidst these driven men, Miró was always the elf, an antic poet who took Surrealism and made it gay, an irreverent abstractionist who planted sexual symbols in wide fields of indeterminate space. He is already so enshrined in art history that it is easy to assume that he is dead. But Miró is alive, and at 80 has taken off in a new creative direction...