Word: antically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FIRST IMAGES CAST an antic light on Operation Restore Hope. As Navy SEALs waded ashore in the moonlight, their faces blackened with camouflage paint, their bodies braced for confrontation, they were met and blinded by the glare of television lights. But the farcical aspect of the first live military landing soon faded as the troops fanned out from their beachhead into the anarchic city of Mogadishu. By daylight, the airport was secured, the city port occupied, and for the first time in two years, most of the firepower belonged to friendlies. Though it had barely begun, the U.S. operation...
...confesses to having used women as sexual sounding boards and professes a midlife conversion to sensitivity. Not all women will be convinced, especially when he boasts that "having a penis is like owning a cat. What a comedy and what a gift." Men should find this celebration of the antic phallus cheering but may not be glad Rhodes...
...Gordons, who star in Donald Katz's vividly reported chronicle of "One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America," are real people, not composites or fictional characters. They bear no resemblance to the antic moms, dads and kids of television sitcoms. They do call to mind that scene in slasher movies in which a young woman hesitates before stepping into the darkness of a house filled with lurking horrors. You can't believe she is going to do something so frighteningly unwise, but she does. In Home Fires, the Gordons...
...happens that Lovett, 34, is a gentle Texan who dedicated his first album to "Mom and Dad." His songs abound in comic irony: I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You, She's No Lady (She's My Wife) and the antic, bluesy Here I Am, which won this country singer a 1989 Grammy. The wit, merging Larry Gatlin's folksy humor with Randy Newman's city sickness, cued you that Lovett was not to be mistaken for the losers in his Lone Star gothic laments...
Mercifully, Ghosts is not much about romantic drears, or even introspection. Corigliano set out to compose an opera buffa, an 18th century-style comic opera such as Figaro or Cosi Fan Tutte. As realized on the stage, scene after scene has a vivid, antic quality that somehow escapes being overly busy. Exploiting the vastness of the Met stage, designer John Conklin deploys props -- solid, handsome, witty -- in ever shifting assemblages. Director Colin Graham sends ghostly ladies flying gently through the air, each looking like a Fragonard dreamscape. Whatever their sins against the people, these aristocrats have found a happy repose...