Word: antics
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...seven newspapers, and all but the Trib turned it down. The Trib would have, too, but its advertising department was apparently asleep in the subways. When the Trib finally woke up, the ad was thrown out. Although New York's Better Business Bureau squarely opposed Merrick's antic, the real critics themselves thought it was funny. Said John Chapman of the Daily News: "Hilarious...
Huntress Hippolyta looks like a sort of Katharine Hepburn on a Grecian urn. Moreover, the puppets move with amazing fluidity and naturalness-every second of screen time represents 24 changes of position; the complete film, running 74 minutes, required exactly 106,560 moves -through scenes designed with antic charm and persistent style. The spectator soon accepts the intricate artifice and sinks happily into a swoon of poesy and forms, well met by moonlight...
...missile arced into high, cool air, millions of awed Americans followed its flight. On television sets from Canaveral to California they watched while its widening vapor trail was twisted into antic patterns by winds aloft. They listened while the calm, businesslike voice of the astronaut reported by radio as he progressed along his predetermined path. Schoolrooms knew an unaccustomed hush as students concentrated on Shepard's dangerous trip. Traffic thinned in thousands of cities as drivers pulled to the curb and tuned their radios. In Indianapolis, a judge halted courtroom proceedings so that all hands could watch...
Among the offerings which might (with some in accuracy) be termed entirely serious, John C. Holden's Memento Mori is the most substantial. Despite a not entirely satisfactory central metaphor ("My life's a sheet of paber filled with holes./People, punched away by antic death...") and some few rough spots, Memento Mori, which won the Hatch Prize this year, is a fine piece. Mr. Holden succeeds in encasing a particularly unwieldly sentiment in a tight and carefully plotted structure. The skillful shifting of the rhyme scheme, and its complete abandonment at one point, reinforce the progression of Mr. Holden...
...Nehru to Sukarno, and whirled into and out of receptions given by half a dozen small countries. His most bewildering display was at a big shindig in the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion, where Khrushchev greeted an astonished Dag Hammarskjold with an affectionate bear hug. Explaining his antic behavior to a crony, Hungary's ill-starred Janos Kadar, Khrushchev said: "In the Caucasus Mountains they have a custom-while a man is under your roof he is your friend, but when he goes outside you can slit his throat...