Word: antics
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...ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms. Roddy Maude-Roxby is maniacally funny, and fetching Carole Simpson sings songs of 20th century woe with almost Brechtian detachment...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, by Peter Shaffer, are clever, stylish, airy and bittersweet. These two one-acters explore the moods of love, antic and frantic. The players-Barry Foster, Geraldine McEwan, Brian Bedford and Moray Watson -are attuned like a fine string quartet...
...menu of odd goodies. Out of his pockets and briefcase, he dredges and devours bananas, Brazil nuts, cartons of yoghurt and handfuls of macaroons, while flourishing an empty sugarcellar. A Greek by descent, and a private detective by happenstance, Cristoforou spends his life shadowing joy. He is the most antic and mythic embodiment of the Life Force since Zorba the Greek danced off the pages of the Nikos Kazantzakis novel...
Beyond the Fringe. Recipient of a rarely accorded Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics Circle, Beyond the Fringe is the finest revue in years. Four antic and articulate young Englishmen rip the comic stuffing out of nuclear defense, Shakespearean theatrics, and glibly patronizing...
Tammy Grimes's Cyrenne is a perkily perfect farceuse, a bedroom imp continually assuming antic positions with dry-witted composure. Edward Woodward's Percy is a plebeian prince of pathos. Under his toothbrush mustache lurks a toothy nervous tic of a grin with which he commits endless facial suicides of self-doubt. He is as simple as the wooden rattle (a soccer-game noisemaker) that he carries in his hand. A mere kiss from Cyrenne makes him act like a porpoise with convulsions...