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  • Illustration by Arthur Giron Books to Set You Free 'The Year of the Hare' is only the most Finnish, and perhaps most antically Zen-ish, of a shelf-load of books that tell us to find and live by our own ideas of contentment.

    The Road Into the Open Pico Iyer 2010

  • Perpetua folded her arms in silence as Lycabetta descended the steps, but Robert danced up to the Neapolitan antically.

    The Proud Prince 1898

  • And yet so little was the pace to him that he fairly gambolled in playfulness as he went slashing along, until the deacon verily began to fear that the honest old chap would break through all the bounds of propriety and send his heels antically through his treasured dashboard.

    The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories 1872

  • The exhibition's earliest and biggest, "L'homme Descend du Signe" 1975, measures about 14 by 27 feet and pictures his familiar repertory of cartoonish, antically animated, biomorphic and geometric forms impulsively outlined in black and hovering in gaseous, purple-tinted space.

    NYT > Home Page By KEN JOHNSON 2011

  • Not that they are markedly different from Let's See, but in his earlier books — The 7 Days Art Columns, 1988 – 1990 (1990), The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978 – 1990 (1991), and Columns and Catalogues (1994) — there is an urgency and a sense of jubilation as he antically swoons over or crosses swords with this artist or that museum show that (to my ear) have been missing in his voice of late.

    An Eye on the Tremors Schwartz, Sanford 2009

  • His corpus displays a breathtaking range of format (short stories, novellas, novels) and content (running the gamut from the dead serious to the antically comedic, hard science fiction to straight-up adventure), and even a cursory review of his work explains why he’s been the recipient of armloads of awards.

    February « 2010 « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010

  • His corpus displays a breathtaking range of format (short stories, novellas, novels) and content (running the gamut from the dead serious to the antically comedic, hard science fiction to straight-up adventure), and even a cursory review of his work explains why he’s been the recipient of armloads of awards.

    Yukikaze, More Than “Plane Porn” « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010

  • Feld dresses the Stephen Foster songs of Doo Dah Day (No Possum, No Sop, No Taters) antically.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Feld dresses the Stephen Foster songs of Doo Dah Day (No Possum, No Sop, No Taters) antically.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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