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"antic" Definitions
  1. an attention-drawing, often wildly playful or funny act or action : CAPER
  2. [archaic] (archaic) a performer of a grotesque or ludicrous part : BUFFOON
  3. characterized by clownish extravagance or absurdity
  4. whimsically lighthearted : FROLICSOME
  5. [archaic] (archaic) GROTESQUE, BIZARRE

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But "Men on Boats" is no antic drag show, though it definitely has its antic side.
Sefolosha filed the lawsuit Wednesday, a few days after Antic.
Antic told reporters the price hike was the "smallest possible".
Even his antic dancing traces a precise evolution of character.
Antic now plays for Fenerbahçe in the Turkish Basketball Super League.
This is the sort of Bachelorette antic that might ruffle feathers.
It&aposs about creating an antic in the briefing room, right?
Her work suggests an antic self-awareness typical of standup comics.
" Opposed = ANTI; Conservative = C: ANTI + C = ANTIC, a definition of "caper.
Luce and Andrew begin to behave in antic fashion, like mimes.
Thirlwell's compositions perfectly suit the antic, scathing sensibilities of the program.
Plus, the judge points out Antic was not injured as a result.
The action, initially zipping at an antic clip, grinds to a halt.
Or, more likely, God is simply in one of His antic moods.
He is a postmodern Mark Twain: grumpy and sentimental, antic and religious.
Both Sefolosha and Antic faced charges that they allege were fabricated by police.
Antic, a Macedonian, now plays for Fenerbahçe in the Turkish Basketball Super League.
The antic motion could distract from the music itself, which was without equal.
Many of the fables are antic, others too terrifying to read at night.
Antic can take some credit for the magic that makes the Calderón special.
The NYPD has refrained from commenting on the lawsuits filed by Sefolosha and Antic.
Meanwhile, it is the right extreme of the political spectrum that has gone antic.
While Hartfield became known for an antic, activist streak, Francis was focused on business.
Goofball farce and existential despair are by no means incompatible in this antic world.
The black-and-white images capture a range of moods from antic to grave.
" That antic fellow with his hands on his knees: "A Cage For The Love.
I totally bought Hamlet's running around in his underpants for his "antic disposition" scenes.
Some antic part of himself, the one that once cheered a grief-stricken mother?
"Or, more likely," he continues, "God is simply in one of his antic moods."
Antic was arrested for disorderly conduct, obstruction and menacing -- but the charges were later dropped.
The movie becomes almost antic and then powerfully abrupt as the principals begin to disappear.
By comparison, the disposition of "Cardinal" is antic, even before it gets out of hand.
Antic effects-laden car chases in town and country ensue, leading to a tender climax.
"Football is not just the game — it is the ritual of the day," Antic said.
The curators of "Wild Noise" put an antic spin on this phenomenon, without abandoning it.
An antic exuberance is built into the form and content of Gilbert and Sullivan shows.
Some fathers sit with you and type in programs out of the back of ANTIC Magazine.
When a magnetism mishap takes place, however, the ooze starts engaging in an antic, claymation dance.
"This is the smallest possible increase, half the amount the IMF asked for," Antic told reporters.
There's a sense of fun and antic possibility here Lamar abjured on his road to iconicity.
This kind of antic effect has grown scarcer in Hanif's writing, which has become increasingly tragic.
Prosecutors dropped criminal charges against Mr. Antic, whose own federal lawsuit against the police is pending.
His Hamlet is antic, mercurial, unpredictable, but each line of verse comes across clearly, almost conversationally.
Chris Cox, an antic English mentalist who resembles a hyperactive Harry Potter, knows what you're thinking.
The New York County District Attorney's Office dismissed disorderly conduct and obstruction charges against Antic in September.
Those who put together the Christmas tradition at the church each year were surprised by Stormy's antic.
So long as he can command media attention with antic pomp, the payoff will be worth it.
This book will become an antic meditation on personality, and on masks, which Bruno begins to wear.
Psychic ability runs in the family in two other engrossing novels, one antic and the other haunting.
This copper is Make Up for Ever Star Lit Powder Glow and Shimmer in Antic Gold ($212).
The officers said Mr. Sefolosha and Mr. Antic had been slow to follow orders to move along.
Both of them also shared an antic sense of humor they called upon to insulate themselves from fools.
Officials initially said Antic grabbed an officer on the shoulder while the cop was trying to arrest Thabo.
His multiple Twitter accounts had an antic tone; he once posted a "Simpsons" cartoon about the Islamic State.
Volle's impersonation is especially convincing: he captures the antic, almost clownish personality that many of Wagner's contemporaries recalled.
Such shows became less antic, more pop, more ironic—with, say, people in Superman outfits making little speeches.
The Star Tribune compared him to the "whiny 'Friends' star David Schwimmer," then fell for his antic style.
I was a lifelong journal keeper, an antic scribbler, a dreadful thrower of notes to boys across classrooms.
The officers claimed that Sefolosha and his teammate, Pero Antic, were slow to follow orders to move along.
This week, Antic, who now plays for a team in Turkey, also filed a suit against the officers.
But for all its antic fancifulness, this is also the truest, least over-the-top "Wozzeck" I've seen.
Antic, profane and riveting, these mural-like scenes replayed history as farce and masqueraded tragedy as depraved comedy.
For many of these people, no attention-grabbing antic is over the line, and no publicity is bad publicity.
For Ivor he mustered a voice not so different from that of his best-loved creation: antic, petulant, silly.
You'll recall, Thabo Sefolosha and Pero Antic were arrested for blocking cops from clearing the area around the stabbing.
This antic historical novel conjures the New Orleans of 1918, beset by an axe murderer and the Spanish flu.
Both Mr. Dante and Chris Columbus, who wrote the screenplay, have antic senses of humor, but they are unreliable.
The tone soon becomes more antic as Mr. Paul and the others appear to try to lighten the mood.
It's only after the plot has unfolded, with antic elegance and brazen unpredictability, that the risks involved become apparent.
That's the form his "antic disposition" takes, to antagonize his uncle and make the court believe he is mad.
He has a young son with his wife, the American singer Amanda Palmer, who matches him for antic subversion.
Ms. Whittaker, who he believed could handle the character's emotional complexity and antic humor, was among his top choices.
Duterte asked if she can explain to her husband that the antic was just a joke, and she said yes.
The stress on the desultory, punctuated by antic gestures from Lopakhin and the servants, makes the first act agonizingly long.
Viner admitted trying to hide his involvement in the 2017 incident when he realized the antic had gotten someone killed.
Broad City has hit its stride this season, achieving emotional depth to match the antic highs of its two stars.
A "knuckle-headed antic?" is a NOOGIE, and yes, that's in the dictionary too, because this is a great country.
Then they were just starting out, and M. Wells had the antic, adrenalized feel of punk rock or experimental theater.
The fort's soggy ruins will soon become a field of sunflowers; the flowers will be burned down with crème brûlée torches; their charred remains will transform into a tropical archipelago; and on and on, forming a tragicomic two-step in which an antic beauty keeps finding ways to rise from our equally antic ashes.
The studio sets are something like Sirk's playground, filled with bric-a-brac allowing the director a number of antic juxtapositions.
Hnath makes his antic changes with enough brio that they become a source of energy to the actors in his productions.
Worried, somber, eager to enlist, occasionally antic, everyone balancing fears of violence and hardship against the regular, hopeful cadence of life.
The dialogue is largely improvised, which on other shows can be deflating, but here lends a live-wire, almost antic energy.
Visually oriented kids love the heavily illustrated style, antic humor and nonstop adventure of this spinoff of the Captain Underpants series.
Duterte told the crowd it was just for fun, but critics condemned what they said was his latest macho antic degrading women.
To be honest, a plot summary would make "Life Itself" sound like fun, because it might create an impression of antic preposterousness.
Its subject matter is elevated, but its execution is whimsical, agile, antic; its primary medium is the rangy, fragile, perseverant human voice.
Peter is an antic fellow, a drunken callow clown with a knack for celebrity impersonation — a buffoon who becomes an easy victim.
Handsome and self-assured, he bears a resemblance to a younger Denzel Washington and exhibits the same antic humor as Kevin Hart.
It's a burlesque set in a time when literary theory was at its cultural zenith; knowing, antic, amusingly disrespectful and increasingly zany.
Aleksandar Antic said the increase is the smallest possible and there has been no adjustment to inflation for the past two years.
" The mood of antic, playful obnoxiousness feels forced rather than liberated, the result of careful note-taking during repeated viewings of "Deadpool.
It seems like a juvenile antic to thumb her nose at her boss; another shining example of how stubbornly petty Debbie can be.
Most of all, the scene shows how Chewing Gum throws its punches and gets its laughs by taking antic situations to their extreme.
She riffs like a jazz musician with a preacher's tension-ratcheting momentum, until she reaches a climax as frank as it is antic.
But here, in this antic novel, God Himself fears death, or, what is the same thing, the extinction of His desire for Daphne.
His antic, imaginative feature "Lu Over the Wall" featured a mermaid as a central figure, constantly navigating between sea and sand and sidewalk.
The antic drove the stock down another 2178.97% the next day and sparked calls for his resignation and questions about his mental stability.
The piece is directed by Eric Tucker of Bedlam, a theater company that specializes in antic versions of Shakespeare and other literary classics.
Antic, joyless and sloppy, "Wilson" tries to provoke and beguile you, but the best you can manage is to feel sorry for it.
And yet for all the flash in his music, Jay-Z has always been an unflashy performer — he's not antic and never overexerts.
Fenerbahce, which rosters former NBAers Jan Vesely, Pero Antic and Ekpe Udoh, is a EuroLeague team that plays out of Turkey's largest city Istanbul.
" White noted that anyone expecting a mainstream Ben Stiller movie—a "Meet the Parents"—will be surprised: "This will be less antic, more melancholy.
This includes the attractive, willfully bland Ms. Peer as the good-girl producer, who essentially functions as straight woman to Mr. Karl's antic joker.
In short, it was a perfect part for Michael Palin, the British actor and founding member of the antic, erudite Monty Python comedy troupe.
Police said Sefolosha and Antic were not involved in the stabbing incident, but they were charged with misdemeanors, including disorderly conduct and obstructing governmental administration.
The "political novel," so frequently an anemic assemblage of thesis statements, is, in Hrabal's hands, antic and unpredictable, full of eccentric strategies for imaginative resistance.
A weird, antic, and corrosive sort of historian to be sure, one who feels himself being left behind by history even as he writes it.
In his epilogue, White drops the antic humor and offers a sweet meditation on the intergenerational experience of camping, in its mundane, generally undramatic glory.
Hardly at all, according to Halley Feiffer's antic and sneakily affecting "Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow" (zippily directed by Trip Cullman, at the M.C.C.).
The antic solo artist John Leguizamo teaches theatergoers a thing or two in this show, which recounts his own efforts to learn about his roots.
Most often, Mr. Albarn's music has been a counterpoint to the rest of Gorillaz's presence: melancholy and introverted alongside Mr. Hewlett's antic, allusion-laced animations.
Levit's recording of the "Goldberg" finds a middle ground between two historical poles: the antic manner of Glenn Gould and the spaciousness of Rosalyn Tureck.
This antic step-by-step guide at first plays it for laughs, pulling in dinosaurs, rhinos, penguins and many more creatures to sow amusing chaos.
Miyazaki's characters have always been willing to venture into darker, more bizarre fantasies than Mickey and Co., and Miyazaki's overall tone is warmer and less antic.
Perhaps, as his approval ratings remain dismal, he has decided to pander exclusively to his base, which seems to prize his antic belligerence above legislative achievement.
Their antic legislating is, in part, an outgrowth of the fact that their ultimate goal is to undermine what exists, rather to than forge something new.
The ones he studies are mostly amateur, bought or found, and reproductions are scattered throughout the novel with his notes, a kind of antic analytic poetry.
In 2014, a retrospective of four major early works by the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker was an extravagant helping of her antic, austere style.
The antic solo artist John Leguizamo teaches theatergoers a thing or two in this show, which recounts his own efforts to learn about his ethnic roots.
Muriel Spark's antic, astute novel "Reality and Dreams" begins with the director Tom Richards lying in a hospital bed, recovering from a serious on-set accident.
Exotic's antic raised the ire of fellow big cat lover and proclaimed "conservationist" Carole Baskin, and she made it her personal agenda to take him down.
DC Young Fly is unnervingly antic; he's built like one of those inflated tube men that flap outside of car dealerships, and moves like one, too.
In June, 1967, Abbie Hoffman, the antic gadfly of the Vietnam years, wed his second wife, Anita, in a hippie happening on Central Park's Great Lawn.
He and Ms. Nadarajah's antic Celia share a beguiling complicity, as do Ms. Nadarajah, playing Guildenstern in "Hamlet," and Pearce Quigley as a comically lugubrious Rosencrantz.
Tate, who was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943, chose, early on, a tactically frivolous, essentially defensive manner, full of homespun jokes and antic swerves.
Played at antic full tilt by the wondrous Mario Cantone, Jackie is combative and foul-mouthed, bigoted and self-loathing, hair-trigger outraged and very, very funny.
Given his on- and off-field antics all season—if you can reasonably call threatening to kill your own girlfriend an "antic"—he was pushing against something.
Antic and Sefolosha had finished a game in Atlanta and flown to New York, where they visited celebrity hotspot 1OAK, a club in the city's Chelsea neighborhood.
Incredibles 2 has so many sidelines and subplots that it periodically feels like it's a whole season of an Incredibles TV series crammed into one antic movie.
In this film, two decades of cultural and political change boil down to a single antic day, as a studio fixer tries to keep Capitol running smoothly.
Yet the novel is not a tribute but a complex and original work, written in a style that is the polar opposite of Bulgakov's antic magic realism.
The threequel to the popular films based on Helen Fielding's novels follows everyone's favorite neurotic Brit as she's thrust back into singledom and an antic love-triangle.
Fear not: Familiarity with the novel is no prerequisite for enjoying this antic show, a madcap mash-up of live performance, prominent video and much audience participation.
Antic and impulsive, Erica is a smart, damaged bully whose father is in prison and whose mother, Laurie (the great Kathryn Hahn), would rather befriend than parent.
After 10 years, they will participate in a kind of livestock beauty pageant, overseen by a popular television veterinarian played by an antic and abrasive Jake Gyllenhaal.
The first two scenes, one long and the next really long, proceed with only the mildest dramatic action, some of it gussied up with annoyingly antic touches.
Muster the money troubles, the love troubles, the antic clowning, the bone-crushing despair, the inchoate longings for art or truth or just a trip to Moscow.
But his 2014 television mini-series, "Li'l Quinquin," about an impish kid caught up in a grisly murder mystery, added an antic playfulness to the Dumont vocabulary.
The next year, "we had more season-ticket holders than we had in the first division," said Carlos García Cantarero, one of the coaches who followed Antic.
A musical adaptation of the revered Tim Burton film, and maybe also a chilling allegory about the perils of remodeling, this antic ghost story arrives on Broadway.
"What Leto offers as the Joker is pure Ledger-lite, a heavy dose of antic wickedness ungrounded by anything deeper or more intriguing," the Atlantic's Christopher Orr wrote.
More to the point, "The Low Road"—which features 17 actors playing more than 50 parts in a lively, antic production directed by Michael Greif—is wonderfully entertaining.
The Looney Tunes characters are mugged out to twenty, and their constant, antic, fast-cutting energy a light year removed from the expertly paced deadpan of their origins.
The sequel, Finding Dory, doubles down on that last idea with an entire story focused on coping with disability and despair, couched in the usual Pixar antic adventure.
Playing another quiet heavy drinker, the Waco Kid, reminiscing to Cleavon Little in "Blazing Saddles," Mr. Wilder has a serenity so at odds with that movie's antic idiocy.
There is virtue in the creeping myrtle's lack of grandeur — and that antic, humble, low and resilient growth may be what makes grandeur possible in the first place.
They pulled off some of the great double acts, whether as strait-laced Bert and wisecracking Ernie, or as antic Grover and flummoxed Kermit, now officially a frog.
In a more antic mode, the orchestra brings a free concert to every borough, playing pieces that include the overture to Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra" (June 11-16).
Misha Mengelberg, a Dutch pianist and composer who approached the jazz tradition with an adventurous spirit and an antic sense of humor, died on March 3 in Amsterdam.
At first, "Pursuit of Happiness," created by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, seems like more of the same, with declamatory speech and antic choreography underlying each throwaway line.
With the help of a DIY explosives expert appropriately named Joe Bang (an antic Daniel Craig), who's initially inconveniently incarcerated, they dip their toes into a life of crime.
Though a handful of dream sequences in these pages showcase Mr. Sorokin's antic and sometimes grotesque imagination, the novel as a whole is a glum, predictable and cursory affair.
And he did so in his usual antic style, matching and mixing allusions from a broad range of sources, from fairy tales to science, from the Bible to Shakespeare.
They are all expected to work late into the night dismembering chickens, stirring pots, adding spices and soaking wood chips, activities that consume a lot of antic stage time.
And so the antic and unlikely "Coronavirus (Remix)" has become a fitting anthem for these unsettled times; it sounds like being inside a five-alarm fire of the mind.
"We will try to make (power company) EPS profitable by other means," Antic added, including by cutting expenditure, reducing power transmission losses and by cracking down on late payments.
Right now, at the Museum of Modern Art, you can watch Cunningham dance his 1964 Antic Meet, and it is of course a pleasure to watch him do so.
Antic and then-teammate Thabo Sefolosha both sued the NYPD claiming cops got unnecessarily violent with them on the street ... after another NBA player got stabbed in a separate incident.
The antic Mr. Bart practically springs an oil leak as the corrupt Tony, and Ms. York's lush junior-varsity version of Cher is amusingly vapid, all bugle beads for brains.
And then Kendrick Lamar has an epic of his own about infidelity and mistrust that, halfway through, shifts gears into antic and proceeds to drive right off an emotional cliff.
Under the typically antic direction of Ms. Bordelon (who did the rock-bio spoof "Dave and Eddie"), this is all performed with enjoyable brio by the cast of four. (Ms.
The music has a vaudeville quality, with horns and trombone zips, and the lyrics are antic, even though they describe being shunted between the justice system, therapists and social workers.
It has his antic visual trademarks — jittery action and flickering projections reminiscent of the grotesque battlefield prints of Otto Dix and George Grosz — but was notably humane and emotionally true.
The bubbly Paige Davis is back to host, as are many of the designers and carpenters, including Ty Pennington, who is effectively demoted from his antic "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" days.
That is just one of the threads that make up the antic "Hierba Mala Nunca Muere" ("Weeds Just Won't Die"), a topical deathbed farce receiving its world premiere at Repertorio Español.
The notices of claim filed last year indicate Antic can recover as much as $25 million, while Sefolosha is eligible to receive up to $50 million, according to multiple media reports.
This isn't your standard Antic bar pumping out hoary old disco hits on a Friday night in an attempt to choke a few quid more out of the post-work crew.
Inside the room, you had a ton of recognizable Republican members filling the gallery who weren't on the committee: Mark Meadows, Matt Gaetz and Louie Gohmert, who's always an antic performer.
This dark, antic satire follows Paul Rainey, a "painful knot of self-hatred" whose dead-end job, as a salesman in London, leads him to self-medicate with drugs and drink.
During a particularly rowdy performance of "Antidote," Mr. Scott's enthusiastic live antic were cut short as he somehow slipped off the stage and into the caring arms of a cement floor.
"I have every desire in the world to be educated," Monsieur Jourdain announces, beaming, and most of the play's first half is taken up by his antic efforts to achieve that.
It is arresting and complex, its moods encompassing anger and mischief, despair, resistance, antic goofiness (at one point the dancers run around the stage carrying ghostly trench coats) and ecstatic union.
The antic, full-bore Williams persona seems to have emerged shortly after his family's move to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1968, when Williams was a senior in high school.
The meta-fiction blends a quietly antic self-satire and a kaleidoscopic twist on the very concept of personal filmmaking with the intimate astonishments of the directors' do-it-yourself artistry.
Find a screen, enter the online catalog, click a link, and within a minute or two you can find yourself watching Merce Cunningham and his company performing "Antic Meet" in 21920.
When he was told that this never happened, he repeated the claim, mocked the disabled reporter who exposed it—a grotesque antic captured on video—and then denied having done so.
This is true, even — and especially — of Ms. McNamara's bendy-bodied, bespectacled Jane, whose expressions and postures exude the effect of deft, single-stroke line drawings of antic attitudes frozen in midgesture.
J.G. An antic adaptation of several ancient comedies by Plautus, featuring a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, and the first Broadway show for which Sondheim created both music and lyrics.
Here she is intent on depicting a whole system of American inequality — educational, economic, legal — that deems some lives valuable and others expendable, though there is an antic dimension to this darkness.
I went to an intense, uplifting morning service at the Brooklyn Tabernacle church downtown and walked through Atlantic Antic, a street fair that bills itself as the largest and oldest in Brooklyn.
Everyone is far too involved in each other's business, because that's how sitcoms work, but the show's screechy self-loathing makes that seem damning and toxic rather than just antic and fun.
When Duterte asked if she can explain to her husband that the antic was just a joke, and she said yes, the president leaned in and kissed her as thousands erupted in cheers.
In his latest wild antic, the Cubs third baseman disguised himself as European prospect "Roy Nabryt" (an anagram for Bryant), who is transferring into top DII team Mesa Community College as a sophomore.
Obviously, the antic thoughts of a man in the grip of schizophrenia — even when they have, as they do on occasion, a certain arresting poetry — do not naturally make for a coherent text.
Much of his large-scale symphonic writing dwells in Shostakovich's mournful-antic shadow, yet in chamber forms Weinberg assumes a distinctive profile, his melodic fluency underpinned by a flair for tension and surprise.
Her performance was antic and scattershot, with echoes of Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett, and a series of sketches — featuring DJ Khaled, Fred Armisen, Billy Eichner and others — greatly overestimated her comedic instincts.
Among the earliest works at MoMA are full-length blueprint-style photographs — antic, Edenic — the couple made of each other after a first stay at the school, where they studied with Josef Albers.
Two duos on the Miller program—"Ornations," for flute and clarinet, and "Bertha's Lair," for flute and drums—tended toward antic, rapid-fire exchanges, as if providing accompaniment for an avant-garde cartoon.
The settlement ends Mr. Sefolosha's two-year fight to clear his name and recover damages after he was arrested early on April 8, 2015, along with a teammate at the time, Pero Antic.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker situates most of her antic, awkward, strangely moving plays in the Northeast, but perhaps she'll head farther south in this new work, directed by Lila Neugebauer.
Jay Triano had held tight to this obscure N.B.A. rule for 20.6 years, this potential, game-changing antic, ever since he had asked a basketball official about it at a clinic in Toronto.
Richard Libertini, a character actor best known for his antic turn as a deranged Latin American general in the 21980 film comedy "The In-Laws," died on Thursday at his home in Venice, Calif.
By turns earthy, philosophical, and quietly antic, Strøksnes glides through a range of topics, including sperm whales, literature, sperm whales in literature (à la Melville), natural history, biology, and the mysteries of human nature.
Ex-ATL Hawks player Pero Antic just took an "L" in his legal war with the NYPD -- after a judge decided the cop who pushed him during a 2015 incident didn't use excessive force.
One of its pages is set up to accept donations, in dollars or bitcoins; another is devoted to "fashy memes," songs and images that extol fascism in an antic, joking-but-not-joking tone.
The period's incendiary passions blazed through the antic charm of the Mitfords' rarefied Cotswolds upbringing and ultimately tore apart their lives in ways Nancy's joyful comic novel "The Pursuit of Love" chose to omit.
"Falsettos" — which began life as two one-acts, "March of the Falsettos" and "Falsettoland" — is a hard show to stop, so antic and frantic are the characters as they ricochet through their complicated lives.
Otherwise, the charms of this "Shoes" are of a hazy strain, despite its detours into antic sequences involving bird watchers, Texas cowboys (and a chorus line of winsome cows) and the Rutgers football team.
The show begins with a prologue delivered (in Italian, with supertitles) by a commedia dell'arte-style clown in a codpiece (an antic Francesca Sarah Toich), who gleefully describes the transformative power of love. Huh?
The alternating Seema chapters lack the antic verve of Barry's, and not only because Barry is high-tailing his way across America while Seema is back in their apartment scheduling therapists for their son.
But he puts the looming threat of ride-shares out of his mind to ferry a grimy assortment of ne'er-do-wells, elderly hospital discharges, and rehab patients around town at an antic clip.
The welcome exception to the wearying rule is Diana Hardcastle, playing the newly 18-year-old Jess, sister to the antic Mike (Michael Feast) and a possible amour of the smitten Tom (Roger Sloman).
The Curran video revived the antic public projection of the singer's personal life and image, reinforcing the fact that just as much as Beyoncé has her own archive, she's a part of the public's too.
The latest Madonna antic to inspire global rage comes from the stage of her Rebel Heart tour in Brisbane, Australia, where she pulled down the top of an unsuspecting fan to reveal a naked breast.
"Gift Shop" — from a surprise full-length collaborative release between Usher and the producer Zaytoven — is an unexpected win, with Usher smoothing out his antic approach, and Gunna coolly cooing, unbothered by the unfamiliar company.
" He considers them all to be "antic" works, his coinage for books that are marked by a "comic take on the encyclopedic narrative just as the 'Iliad' is a tragic take on an encyclopedic narrative.
Though Mr. Hildebrandt met Mr. Williams only once, at a premiere for his 1997 film "Flubber," he said Mr. Williams lived up to his antic reputation: "He was a child at heart," Mr. Hildebrandt said.
Under Sarna Lapine's antic, hectic direction, with heavy use of red gels from the lighting designer, Adam Honoré, "Dracula" strikes a tone more comic than serious and more contemporary than period, but rarely wholly confident.
Her vocal calisthenics are in the lineage of such artists as Meredith Monk and Cathy Berberian, with a touch of Laurie Anderson, although her restless, antic instrumental writing is more in the European modernist tradition.
In 1963, Merce Cunningham arrived in Minneapolis with John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and some dancers — Rauschenberg's set pieces strapped to the roof of their Volkswagen Microbus — to perform "Antic Meet" at the Walker Art Center.
Sefolosha suffered a broken fibula and ligament damage when he and teammate Pero Antic were taken into custody outside 1 OAK on April 8th ... after another NBA player had been stabbed in a separate incident.
The spring season on Broadway this year features perhaps the most eclectic lineup of new musicals in recent memory, from an antic spoof of bad movies to a gentle fable based on a popular children's book.
Aside from the aforementioned loss of DeMarre Carroll and fan-favorite bouncer/big man Pero Antic, the Hawks are running out a squad that's remarkably similar to last season's, and yet they've lost that utilitarian zip.
There's an air of renegade yesteryear about this antic effrontery, from the era in which Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of sadomasochistic gay practices fuelled a culture war that, in 1989, reached the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Unlike Winogrand, who was attracted to the antic energy of urban life and accentuated it with off-kilter framing, Mr. Hernandez embraced the formal full-frontal style that Mr. Baltz and Mr. Adams applied to landscapes.
The antic delighted the crowd but tested the patience of the home-plate authority Pam Postema, the first woman to wear umpire blue at a regular-season major league game — at least on this conjured field.
That is perhaps because Nadar's life was a series of discrete phases, with an antic personality at their center, that do not add up to any sort of grand narrative nor entail much mystery or depth.
At its most solemn moments, the effect is akin to hearing the tagged, voice-overed quotations in Ken Burns's "The Civil War"; in more antic places, one might be reading the creative nonfiction of David Shields.
In search of improvement, I considered the lead of the antic, puckish chef Danny Bowien, of Mission Chinese in New York and San Francisco, who put a recipe for beef and broccoli into his 2015 cookbook.
Think of him as a combination of the creepy Weimar-era M.C. from "Cabaret" and the antic Hitler from the recent Oscar nominee "Jojo Rabbit," and you'll understand that Jue's assignment is not an easy one.
The causes included the talk of Russian hacking and the antic appointment to many of the most important Cabinet posts of dubious executives, men and women who are tragically unfit, from ideological extremists to unschooled plutocrats.
But once the thickly accented title character starts to work a malign magic on his trusting and pliable friend Orgon (Kevin Doyle), Molière's play reasserts its cautionary power in this newly antic version by John Donnelly.
The kids vamping on couches or cruising on skateboards—antic or moody, supremely self-conscious or self-forgetting—are starting to think about making moves, maybe, making names for themselves, abandoning the hang out for the hustle.
"In the early days, maybe last year that kind of antic would increase his popularity and would entice more people to support him but this past month his comments, even his officials, have been (angered)," says Wadi.
Actual Grace Patricia Lockwood is a poet, and it shows in her antic, earthy, bawdy family memoir, "Priestdaddy," which brims with warmth and electric language, much of it lavished on descriptions of her larger-than-life father.
Both Carolyn Chute's "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" and Cathie Pelletier's "The Funeral Makers" play up their clannish characters' antic charms while making clear the specific and unique ways their lives have been shaped by rural poverty.
And, in turn, Hamlet's newfound vulnerability means that when he puts on his antic disposition and moves like a madman, he is dramatically reshaping the existing power structures of his world: He is taking up more space.
" Mr. Turpin called it "rollicking, interesting, beautiful, beautiful and bizarre," with antic twists, goofy names and suddenly revealed conspiracies that recall "a pre-modern Thomas Pynchon" or even, he ventured, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Jacobson, 34, and Glazer, 31, are not just the creators and stars of "Broad City," the Comedy Central series that puts an antic, absurdist spin on their coming-of-age adventures; they're members of the entertainment establishment.
Two of the most prominent Brexit politicians were themselves journalists: Michael Gove, a halibut-faced former columnist at The Times; and Boris Johnson, an antic columnist for The Telegraph who is now baffling the world as foreign secretary.
" Moustafa Bayoumi, author of "This Muslim American Life" and professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY ________ "Republicans who took heart at his antic, boob-bait performance are grasping at a thin, crazy reed that the coming news cycles will snap.
A woman prone to antic behavior like praying in the middle of a one-night stand and putting a wastebasket over her head when she cries, Hilary is the Moral Pixie Dream Girl for an age of cynicism.
Jacobs-Jenkins, who has one of the most antic imaginations at work in the theater today, loves to riff on classics both venerable and hoary, to turn them inside out and see how they fit our own age.
It is this fascination that Sisman (who counts Trevor-Roper and le Carré among his previous biographical subjects) has made the tenet of his book: Peters's antic mayhem jibed with Trevor-Roper's own taste for anti-establishment mischief.
It's only three episodes, each 75 minutes long, and the show has a restrained lovability, not as antic or filthy as "The Thick of It" — or "Peep Show" — but not as staid as a straightforward politics drama, either.
Two other 1 Oak revelers also emerged from the night worse for wear: Thabo Sefolosha and Pero Antic (both played for the Atlanta Hawks at the time), who were apparently not cooperative when the police cleared the club.
"Tom Sawyer Abroad" (1894) and "Tom Sawyer, Detective" (1896) were potboilers, with Huck again reduced to antic second-banana status, his shining moral instincts and dead-on social perceptions forgotten, ignored or perhaps even unsuspected by his author.
As the two were in the club, another pro hoopster, Chris Copeland, who was not with Antic and Sefolosha, was stabbed outside the club, in front of the Fulton Houses projects down the street, according to a 1OAK statement.
That was followed by "Okja" (2017), an antic updating of the basic "Charlotte's Web" material (a young farm girl fights to save the life of her beloved piglet) for an age of genetic engineering, mass media and multinational capitalism.
And from that time forward, that's what he did, expanding his portfolio in antic parodies with 1975's "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" and 1977's "The World's Greatest Lover" (both of which he wrote and directed).
But they resemble one another in their atmosphere of antic dread—the claustrophobic, gut-tightening sense that power has come utterly unmoored from reality, and no one in the palace is safe from the wild impulses of the ruler.
"Tumacho" is this summer's third and final offering in the annual Summerworks season from the downtown incubator of antic theater Clubbed Thumb, and it bids fair to become the sleeper that last year's play in the same slot did.
At the other end of the spectrum of pain and pleasure is Olivia's Puritanical steward, Malvolio (Andrew Kober, gleefully resurrecting the antic, pompous spirit of the young John Cleese.) Weaving among them all is the canny, accordion-playing Feste.
Stettheimer's paintings also give us more populated views, like the antic "Spring Sale at Bendel's" or "Lake Placid," in which swimmers and boaters enjoy hilly swells of celadon waves that fuse with the mountains, and "Asbury Park South" (1920).
But, after a few months, chances are the U.S. will determine it's nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune than to risk self-immolation by taking arms against a nuclear-armed Kim wearing an antic disposition.
But "The Visiting Privilege" conducts itself like an antic and slightly surreal version of Chekhov's story "Ward No. 6," in which the director of a lunatic asylum ends up being judged insane, and is committed to his own hospital.
Withdrawing from Thursday's debate demonstrates—in an antic, contrived way that perfectly aligns his Apprentice-era stagecraft, his real-estate-king persona, and the GOP's parody-defying depiction of Obama's presidency—that he's willing to walk away from a bad deal.
An anecdote published in the Washington Post captured the overall vibe of the trip: The friendly flavor of this encounter was epitomized by Abourezk, who has his own antic sense of humor and does not try very hard to suppress it.
The movie starred a lanky, antic James Woods as Richard Boyle, a sleazy lout of a journalist who travels to El Salvador to report on the civil conflict in the early 1980s, and was as overlooked as Platoon was widely praised.
My husband and I took her to her first show, Soho Rep's antic, site-specific kiddie play, "Washeteria," when she was a year and a half, and she still remembers how the performers reached into the crowd and gave high fives.
John Vaccaro, a theater iconoclast whose avant-garde troupe, known as Playhouse of the Ridiculous, helped establish Off Off Broadway as a source of antic creativity and thumb-in-the-eye subversion of social and artistic conventions, died on Aug.
BELGRADE, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Serbia's government agreed a 3.8 percent electricity price increase to comply with conditions set by the International Monetary Fund in return for a 1.2 billion euro ($1.34 billion)loan, Energy Minister Aleksandar Antic said on Wednesday.
Lopez says that the biggest theatrical influence on "The Inheritance" is "Gatz," the two-part, eight-hour adaptation of "The Great Gatsby," by Elevator Repair Service, in which the entire novel is read aloud and enacted by an antic cast.
Hamlet, you may recall, is the guy who — after he discovers his dad has been murdered by his uncle (and new stepfather) — decides to put on "an antic disposition," the better to enact revenge under the cloak of assumed madness.
The book begins, and races along, as an antic thriller, through a circus's worth of set pieces (sex dolls, lawn flamingoes, motorized wheelchairs, bestiality with dolphins), but throughout and underneath this supersaturated masquerade Hazel tells the darkest, baldest, saddest truths.
"It is a club that knows what it is to suffer," said Raddy Antic, the coach who led the club to arguably the finest season in its history, when it won the Spanish league and the Copa del Rey in 1996.
KAI MATSUMIYA A tradition of political art on the Lower East Side lives on in the work of the Austrian-born New York Conceptualist Rainer Ganahl, who has been responding to current events with antic, deadpan wit for almost 30 years.
He was a type of painless flagellant in the realm of language and song-rage: even though on the necromantic face of Lazarus he is posed in a style drawn from the files of that notorious old antic Dean of St. Paul's ….
And instead of organizing the clutter, the tiresomely antic production by Pierre Audi — recently named the Park Avenue Armory's artistic director and who is the longtime director of the Dutch National Opera, where "Theater of the World" will travel next month — redoubles it.
KALININGRAD, Russia — The maritime museum in this Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea caps each summer with its international Water Assembly, an antic parade of small historical vessels from around the Baltics, their crews wearing period costumes as they sail the Pregolya River.
"Cav," in this telling, is a grave tale told on a woozily rotating set, filled with people somberly dancing, dressed in black; "Pag" has the antic sparkle that a traveling comedy troupe might indeed have inspired in a country still recovering from war.
The flying squirrel in Zachariah OHora's antic "My Cousin Momo" doesn't fit in with the cousins he's visiting: He thinks hide-and-seek is an opportunity to find mushrooms; he wears a giant muffin costume when his cousins dress as more recognizable superheroes.
The LeWitt plays off Alfred Jensen's gorgeous but inscrutable number sequences organized in a bright, thickly painted grid, as well as examples of Hanne Darboven's oceanic writing and counting pieces and, less predictably, Jennifer Barlett's early enamel paintings, full of antic dots.
Those who saw this one-man show at the Public Theater in the spring may have been surprised by the antic Mr. Leguizamo's latest onstage alter ego, that of a paternal, if unorthodox, professor who is helping his son prepare a class project.
She's been compared to the antic Ryan Trecartin, and the frenetic velocity of the more established artist's take on contemporary culture provides an instructive foil to her deliberation and stillness, her mournful rumination, and her quirky, web-fueled cross-referencing, in all its unsettled subjectivity.
An arch and antic reworking of "The Princess and the Pea," one of the folk tales that Hans Christian Andersen made his own, "Mattress" has always been close kin to British pantomimes, those grab-bag holiday entertainments that fracture classic fairy tales for family audiences.
Like those antic films of the 1930s and '40s, "Be Frank With Me" is meant to be taken lightly, presenting a candy-coated fantasy of life in the first decade of the current century, fueled — like Frank — by nostalgia for ostensibly less complicated eras.
Hersey is often regarded as a progenitor of the New Journalism of the 222s and 1970s, but he couldn't be further from the antic gyrations of Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, or Michael Herr, or even the brilliantly rococo self-dramatizations of Joan Didion.
I don't foresee a similar fate for "Anastasia," which originated at Hartford Stage in Connecticut and is directed by Darko Tresnjak (a Tony winner for his ingenious staging of "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder"), with choreography both stately and antic by Peggy Hickey.
Even though the occasion for our talk is the acclaimed author's Big-Deal Debut Novel, Lincoln in the Bardo—an inventive, antic, and poignant book destined for awards ceremonies and end-of-the-year lists—our conversation, like so many conversations, has turned to politics.
Describing himself as an amateur computer historian, Savetz says that he's scanned "tens of thousands of pages of computer magazines, newsletters, and catalogs" over the years, and also co-hosts ANTIC: The Atari 8-Bit Podcast, conducting hundreds of interviews with the people involved in the company.
After a prologue sung by the violin-shouldering Marques Toliver, the houses of Montague and Capulet are immediately put at odds, via a stirring, scrappy fight sequence among Mercutio (an antic Max Woertendyke), Benvolio (a hearty Danny Rivera) and Tybalt (a nicely sly Jorge Eliézer Chacón).
Sometime in October of 1930, Calder performed his circus for a sober audience of advanced artists, including Mondrian and Léger, who found in it none of the antic charm that his American audiences had but, rather, intimations of a language of abstract order and kinetic movement.
He became friends with the influential husband-and-wife artists Michael Krebber and Cosima von Bonin, with whom he has collaborated on projects, and he has made antic, underground-style films with the sculptor Isa Genzken, whose work was the subject of a MoMA retrospective in 2014.
A current show at Sperone Westwater of some of his last works, with a few early gems thrown in, won't exalt his reputation, but its antic perversity—with flatly painted, surreal tableaux, wizardly in composition, of toy medieval knights on fabric-armored horses—is well worth witnessing.
Gloria Jean, a former child singing sensation remembered for her popular 21963s Universal Studios films and her leading part in W. C. Fields's antic comedy "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break," died on Friday at a care facility near her home in Mountain View, Hawaii.
His title character (here the enthusiastic, intense tenor Allan Clayton, unafraid of going guttural) is maniacally disheveled and antic, not deep or ruminative, and while I left the opera house glad to have seen the piece, it was oddly difficult to pinpoint just what it's about.
The contrast in size between Chang and the boat and whale lends her scrubbing gesture a touch of the absurd, but, unlike the antic absurdity of her earliest performances (for example, sitting with a swarm of eels tucked into her blouse), this gesture manifests a heavy-hearted gravitas.
Maddow's prime-time hour of overheated speculation lacks the antic sensibility and maudlin sentimentality of, for instance, the pre-exile Glenn Beck, who had scribbled all his manic and intricate chalkboard theories of history as conspiracy (and vice versa) with the studied passion of a coffee-shop prophet.
The first characters to emerge onstage are a homeless trio scavenging for shelter and food; the words "this is the end" have been scrawled, graffiti-style — all part of a picture of the apocalypse that might seems at odds with so antic and larky a piece of theater.
Based on Abouet's childhood memories of growing up in the port town of Abidjan (which also formed the basis of her award-winning "Aya of Yop City" books for older readers, which have been translated into 15 languages), the rapid-fire, action-packed tales are wild and antic.
Pick the flavor of art that suits you: KAI MATSUMIYA A tradition of political art on the Lower East Side lives on in the work of the Austrian-born New York Conceptualist Rainer Ganahl, who has been responding to current events with antic, deadpan wit for almost 30 years.
Why it matters: Some officials argue that this "cost-saving" antic really isn't going to save the U.S. military — which has a budget of $700 billion this year — loads of money, because the troops that would have been involved in the exercises will still require the same training and certification, Reuters adds.
In others — like Denis Johnson's "Jesus' Son," with its waking terrors of addiction and violence, or Lorrie Moore's 1985 debut, "Self-Help," narrated in the often antic and sometimes wistful style of a how-to manual — the tone is so exacting and of a piece that the books feel like precisely rendered states of mind.
Composed in a coolly ironic, carefully modulated voice that might be seen as a Brooklyn-gentry counterpoint to the antic exclamatory wild man school once dominated by the likes of Mr. Bangs, the pieces in "Emotional Rescue" come across with the kind of quirky mildness (or mild quirkiness) that lends itself to guest appearances on National Public Radio.
He has worked his rowdy magic on Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert (in an antic take on Genet's "The Maids"); Gillian Anderson (playing a tigerish Blanche DuBois in a Darwinian jungle in Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire"); and Sienna Miller (red in tooth and claw as the title character of Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof").
The "Wozzeck" was a big success — Zachary Woolfe wrote in The New York Times that "for all its antic fancifulness, this is also the truest, least over-the-top 'Wozzeck' I've seen" — leaving Mr. Hinterhäuser in the enviable position of provoking arguments in his first season over which of the operas he programmed had been the standout.
You can't chalk this up to her newly revealed Game of Thrones fandom, nor to the more pertinent fact that she has so much antic energy that you could easily imagine this woman crossing the finish line at the Boston Marathon and then, without being winded in the least, rolling out a brilliantly devious new plan for defanging the plutocrats of Silicon Valley.
It's a narrative device that is a bit baffling for the reader, given that Maurice is already familiar with the facts of their story, until a twist sends the plot, regrettably, in a different direction, away from its promising beginning as a comic novel satirizing the literary world, and toward the realm of simple satire, which glories in cliché and antic cruelty.
I also wish I could have had a better look at Carroll Dunham's antic, untitled painting in oil and graphite on wood veneer (1984); Rex Lau's painted landscape on carved wood, "The Mountain Demons" (1980); and Nellie Mae Rowe's fanciful, untitled depiction of a woman raising her yellow-gloved hands above her head, which the artist made in 1981, the year before she died at age 82.
The injury occurred when Mr. Karl was leapfrogging over another actor toward the end of the Friday night show, during an antic scene in which his character, the weatherman Phil Connors, does a variety of good deeds for residents of Punxsutawney, Pa. "I came down wrong, in some way, and my knee just blew out," he said, tearing up as he described the incident.
Along the way, the galleries present a host of artifacts: Kerouac's hand-drawn map of the cross-country adventure that inspired "On the Road"; a violently scrawled self-portrait on paper by Burroughs, his face looking even scarier than in photographs; the black-and-white film "Pull My Daisy," an antic short by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie that featured Kerouac as narrator and Ginsberg and Corso as wildly misbehaving poets.
These past three or four years have been a kind of Indian summer for Chast, with blossomings of newly confident work of all kinds: live performances, both antic and more resolute than anything before, and several books—including her downright sprightly and uplifting tale of the city, " Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York "—that are more broadly accessible than her earlier collections of New Yorker cartoons.
A comedy of manners that recounts the trials and tribulations of a government minister in Delhi saddled with a stolid wife and more than a dozen children, that book was an exercise in light social satire, which, like all successful entries in its genre, worked by achieving a narrow consistency of tone, the antic goings on at Parliament and the dinner table leavened by the amused detachment of the voice recounting them.
Were North Korean leader Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnAir Force general: North Korea 'Christmas gift' could be long-range missile test Trump says he'll be 'disappointed' if North Korea has something 'in the works' on nuclear program Trump should return to what worked on North Korea, and in the Cold War MORE a modern-day Hamlet, he occasionally would act like a madman — or, as the moody Dane in Shakespeare's work put it, put an antic disposition on — out of guilt for having had his uncle killed in 2202 upon the urging of his father's ghost.
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