Word: antically
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...characters on yet another tour between Terre Haute and hell, with nobody quite able to tell the difference? It may be practice, it may be panic. It may even be genius. Whatever his secret, the author of Sauce for the Goose again earns the degree of Master of Antic Angst...
...McCoy feud between N.Y. and L.A. is fueled at Broadway's Biltmore Theater by Furth's comic sniper fire. In Director Gene Saks' nimble hands, the characters suffer the gauntlet of Pacific perils from mudslides to brushfires to shudderingly mirthful earthquakes. Furth's people are antic and simpatico. Mae (Betty Garrett) has been an offstage mother to her orchestra conductor son since he first brandished a baton. That he is 40 and a bachelor mortifies her, but not as much as having blurted out on a TV interview that he was not a homosexual...
Pure is a word used with some regularity. Outerbridge plans to produce a pilot series for television, but he is wary of gimmicks. "We won't have an enactment," he promises. The rules of the game are clearly understood. No antic chorus, no laugh track-not even an introduction by Alistair Cooke-can really make Parents' eagle soar. Parents sums up the ancient contract: "A live person is looking at you and telling a story. That's a pretty arresting thing." Outside, the late afternoon shadows are beginning to lengthen...
...getting serious about his own jokes. If on a winter's night a traveler is no exception. He may begin by grimacing wittily over books that make themselves more important than life, but he ends up proving in spite of himself that books are life. His antic critique turns into a love letter on the wry but irresistible pleasure of reading...
...jazz funeral is beginning in New Orleans. Though hardly disrespectful, the underlying temper is festive. The reason lies in tradition: when the funeral is done, the streets will explode with jubilant jazz and antic celebration. To see it is to understand what Trumpeter Willie Pajaud meant when he said: "I'd rather play a funeral than eat a turkey dinner...