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caper

noun as in antic, lark

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verb as in frolic, cavort

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Yet what is being marketed as a funny caper grows increasingly bleak.

Controversy at the Smithsonian, a Jazz Age caper from Thomas Pynchon, Rome’s long history and more.

Controversy at the Smithsonian, a Jazz Age caper from Thomas Pynchon, Rome’s long history and more.

The author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” sends a private eye on the trail of a missing heiress in a complex, comic, Prohibition-era caper.

I can’t explain why this breezy comic caper is such a dependable midnight snack for me.