Word: antics
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Besides, whether we inflict our French on the concierge or not, many of our transactions will come down, in the end, to an antic game of charades. English may be the universal language, but it's still less universal than hands and eyes. So even as we become unwitting James Joyces -- coining neologisms by the minute -- when we essay a foreign language, we also become Marcel Marceaus: asking the way to the rest room with our eyebrows or sending back the squid with a paroxysm of mock pain. Ask a man in Tierra del Fuego to point...
...interesting case for the play as a portrait of a whole society gone rotten rather than as a personal tragedy. His own portrayal of Edgar, the fugitive son of a mistrustful lord, comes as close as an actor can to making sense of the play's parallel set of antic mad scenes and willful disguises...