Composed of lines of different lengths and colors and various thicknesses, these antic figures seem to vibrate on and under the paintings' lightly brushed surfaces.

Mr. Dreyfuss, absent from the screen for a while before "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" and this film, is no longer the antic comic figure of his earlier days.

A secondary plot revolves around the antic figure of Marley, played by Nick Corri, a disaster-prone painter with dreams of erecting a chapel dedicated to Jesus Christ as a woman.

The light grew dimmer on the antic figures around it and the beast-like faces of the Venusians were more loathsome than ever in the lowering gloom.

The show's most ambitious prints are dense, all-over fields comprising scads of little antic figures, charts, diagrams, geopolitical symbols and lots and lots of words.

Onstage, the Nashville-based singer and songwriter, who opened an engagement at the Bottom Line on Thursday evening, is an exuberantly antic figure who augments his raw-boned country-blues singing with a clownish sense of fun.

Dense, all-over fields comprising scads of little antic figures, charts, diagrams, symbols and lots and lots of words map the geopolitical landscape of the Vietnam War era.

True, Vaublin's work contains elements of the Dutch and Flemish masters - Vermeer's crystalline stillness, Rembrandt's luminous darkness, Bruegel's antic figures at play.

Are these four quick, precise bodies, moving in front of the wall and its sleepers, restless vertical dreamers or antic recurrent figures in dreams?

She darted in under the scaffolding by the doorway, the same dark and almost antic figure.