The explanation of its worth goes beyond sensation or prankishness.

But it seems the tyrant had a streak of childish prankishness as well.

Indeed, the whole debacle has a tone of collegial prankishness turned sour.

They have reunited to continue their combination of folk archivism and hippie prankishness.

Among his Hashemite royal family, leadership has often been marked by a blend of prankishness and cunning.

They had laughed at his prankishness.

They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven-year-old, to analyse them and know their prankishness?

But despite a Phi Delta aesthetic, prankishness is not part of the lingua franca.

Mr. La Fosse turned him into a sly old codger with an incorrigible sense of prankishness.

It also has the kind of spring-loaded allusive prankishness that, at times, will tickle adults even more than it does kids."

We would regard Mr. Nader's willful prankishness as a disservice to the electorate no matter whose campaign he was hurting.

Bearing this in mind, one could say that the prankishness of Robert Grudin's "Book: A Novel" begins with its title.

The Holy Modal Rounders always combined archivism with prankishness, borrowing old tunes for anarchic new contexts.

This spirit of yours is no devil, but he is powerful, and can do evil things out of recklessness and the prankishness that characterizes spirits.

These juxtapositions were strangely poignant, and one sensed that, for all his prankishness, Mr. Stewart acknowledged the power of the traditional "Swan Lake."

Gus' teacher Lydia Marble (Joanne Dru) manages to curb the boy's prankishness, and along the way falls in love with Jennings.

During the 1930s, Colonna played with the CBS house orchestra, the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, and developed a reputation for prankishness.

Schumann's "Faschingsschwank aus Wien," in which a pianist's sense of fantasy should be allowed full rein, did not often evoke the carnival prankishness suggested by the title.

In the end, this may be the common ground n+1 and The Believer occupy: a demand for seriousness that cuts against ingrained generational habits of flippancy and prankishness.

However, even when they're gainfully employed (as in The Super Salesmen or Pill Peddlers), there's often a hint of hucksterism or prankishness involved.

AT OTHER TIMES, POP CAN encourage uninhibited prankishness.

There, they become the sole guests in a motel run by a startlingly spry 93-year-old black man named Truman Stroud, whose scowls and gripes poorly disguise a playful prankishness.

Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber started the Holy Modal Rounders in the early 1960's and have reunited to continue their combination of folk archivism and hippie prankishness.

Pilobolus is celebrated for its brash good humor, and there was lots of prankishness in the program the company offered on Wednesday night at the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street.

At the same time these cases were disposed of in a way that reflected on our part a recognition that they were young people and that it was kind of housed in a tradition of prankishness.