First a corsair’s cellar, built to safeguard gold, weapons, an eccentric’s beekeeping equipment. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They complain about him to Theo, calling him “eccentric” and “strange.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A small cadre of racetrack eccentrics gathered around him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willard’s success was unquestionable, but for many years she shared the limelight with one of the most eccentric, unforgettable characters in the entire American experience. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Different hypotheses might produce the same result: for example an eccentric circle will generate exactly the same movement as an epicycle upon a deferent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The affirmative reply I received with much relief, since it was inconceivable that my sister could think about settling in Denmark after two weeks of an eccentric country house. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the Londoners who passed them were used to eccentric dressers and took little notice, though occasionally one of them might glance back, wondering why anyone would wear such long cloaks in this heat. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You really seem to like these stories. Who knows, perhaps they’re all your own invention, and this Capricorn is just a rather eccentric book collector!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Laucks was inarguably one of the most eccentric people in the New York chess community, with conflicting values and erratic behavior. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to be in that house, admiring the craftsmanship, the great care put into the most eccentric details and flourishes—a mural over the mantel, one-of-a-kind ironwork on every balcony. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He wrote a friend: “I’m doing the dearest little serial for Pearson’s new magazine, in which I completely wreck and destroy Woking—killing my neighbours in painful and eccentric ways.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“People really do become eccentric when they become rich.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For an instant I was puzzled, until I realized that Lwoff had thought it prudent to warn the Baroness about an unclothed guest who might prove eccentric. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The sisters enjoyed traveling, and when they were nineteen and twenty-one, they went to Geneva, Switzerland, and spent eight months with their favorite aunt, Jessie, and her eccentric Italian husband, J. C. de Sismondi. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stepdad is fiddling with the wiring, probably rewiring it to do something that’d make more sense in an Iron Man comic, like he does with most electronics—eccentric millionaire inventor habits die hard. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Moreover, Naomi was a sister of England’s most clever and eccentric biologist, J. B. S. Haldane. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

We found out much later in life that he was bipolar, but before that we just thought he was eccentric. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Clavius was wrong—there are no eccentrics and epicycles—but he was right to claim that he could predict the future movements of the heavenly bodies with a high degree of reliability. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were only three types of communications that arrived by post: packages, official business, or letters from the eccentric—the only type of people who still wrote letters. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Though he learned to speak a fluent, somewhat eccentric English, his written command of the language was mediocre at best. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She well knew how eccentric he seemed to others; he seemed so to her, for that matter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is eccentric, and there is no changing that. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Lilya was an eccentric beauty, a petite blonde who regularly sent her aircraft mechanic to pick up peroxide from a nearby hospital so she could bleach her hair. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Better to have them think I’m a little eccentric than a sheep killer, right?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He settles in almost immediately, though it takes him a bit to get used to Dr. Gachet; on first meeting he thinks him quite eccentric. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Slash was also categorically eccentric, and a bit of a nerd. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was only a man who had meant well, who had been spurred along that course of thinking by an eccentric necromancer with a weakness for humanity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is out of respect for your views, Mr Lewis, that I feel one should not simply cast them to one side as though they were uttered by some soap-box eccentric. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, my dad has a drinking problem and my mom can be a little eccentric, but they make sacrifices for me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

There he let his eccentric tastes run wild. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Though the ways of the College of Lucidity were strange to the world and the habits of its academicians eccentric, they were familiar to me; and I traded them now for uncertainty and strife. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that the family who owned the sugar mill were eccentric “Arabs,” Haitians of Lebanese or Palestinian descent whose family had been in the country for generations. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

If he were fat, older, poor, plain, eccentric, or dreadlocked, then it would be less remarkable, and the guardians of the tribe would be mollified. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

An eccentric, which involved a perfect circle around an unmarked point in featureless space, seemed to him an impossibility. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thus both Copernicus and Francis Bacon wrote of astronomers ‘feigning’ eccentrics and epicycles—they meant these are imaginary entities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I respect your mind and I have always accepted your eccentric tendencies and that is why I want to see you reach the plateau of perfect mental- sexual balance. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camshaft flies around the factory until a man unhooks it, attaches it to the engine block, growing eccentric now with fan blades, pipes, and spark plugs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I think you might very well be the most eccentric person I’ve ever met.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was an eccentric, rainy, wind-beaten sea village, downtrodden and mildewed, the boards of its buildings bleached and weathered, their drainpipes rusted a dull orange. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To him it seems appropriate, to me eccentric: it’s a defiance of convention, but of a convention he’s never heard of. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

According to Du Barry, it should be elegant yet regal, memorable but not eccentric, and most of all, fit for royalty. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It’s no wonder that many arcanists you meet are a little eccentric, if not downright cracked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed slightly as he took in Dumbledore’s eccentric appearance. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This was by no means an eccentric upbringing in the American Upper Midwest of the era. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric," Mr. Hoo said bitterly. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told stories of his own eccentric upbringing, and these made her laugh. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“He is celebrated today as one of Russia’s most brilliant writers. But during his life he was understood by no one, least of all himself. One might say he typified the phrase ‘eccentric genius.’ The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hacker’s salamander buried itself in the detritus at the bottom of the pond. eccentric. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Considerably more stable than racing shells, they were nevertheless eccentric craft, easy to capsize and difficult to maneuver. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For by rendering feelings in words that a stranger can understand—words that belong to the public, this Other—the young diarist no longer need feel ah alone or eccentric. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam was a white man of twenty-five years and exhibited none of the eccentric mannerisms of his co-workers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You have a curious, designing mind, Mr. Rochester. I am afraid your principles on some points are eccentric.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I imagine he did not think I was a beggar, but only an eccentric sort of lady, who had taken a fancy to his brown loaf. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

National defense and global prestige, of course, were the two concerns that had moved the reverie of space travel from the purview of novelists and eccentrics to the country’s number-one priority. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Imagine that you and twenty casual acquaintances are in a room together, having been brought there by an eccentric philanthropist. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been eccentric as a student, but now. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried not to stare, but the newcomer was most eccentric. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

George Francis Train was a wealthy eccentric who was an outspoken advocate for women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She looked, in short, more like a rather eccentric and bloodthirsty follower of the stag-hounds than the headmistress of a nice school for children. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But hiking has always been a marginal pursuit in America, and within a few years the AT was once more largely forgotten except among a few diehards and eccentrics. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Moira, sitting on the edge of my bed, legs crossed, ankle on knee, in her purple overalls, one dangly earring, the gold fingernail she wore to be eccentric, a cigarette between her stubby yellow-ended fingers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of my brilliant mother, midwife and entrepreneur; of my eccentric father, junkman and zealot. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m kind of eccentric. I’ve always been one of those weird guys who likes to sleep at five o’clock in the morning.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smith was an eccentric rebel who surrounded himself with people interested in the progressive issues of the day, and Elizabeth found the environment at his home a thrilling contrast to her father’s safe, conservative household. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But his colleague from Georgia need not dally over the credentials of these pathetic eccentrics. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We formed an exclusive—eccentric!—society, separated from others who would never care or be able to share our concerns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a constant tension between the aspiration to be first and the fear of not being believed, of being regarded as an eccentric and a fool. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As he aged, Mendeleyev became increasingly eccentric–he refused to acknowledge the existence of radiation or the electron or anything else much that was new–and difficult. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Was that the first hint, or was it just Gene being Gene, eccentric and unconventional, trying to shock his disapproving in-laws? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To strip off like that—yes, her endearing attempt to seem eccentric, her stab at being bold had an exaggerated, homemade quality. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

An even more radical rejection of complexity can be heard in the piano miniatures of Erik Satie, Faure’s eccentric, half-English contemporary. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The problem for Kepler was that circles, eccentrics and epicycles were geometrical constructions; there was no evidence that any such gearing existed in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Settlers arrived—mostly wayward souls and eccentrics who had meandered off the Oregon Trail. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But Corkers, an eccentric old bachelor, was neither dull nor colourless. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

An eccentric nobleman of my acquaintance, some years ago, quietly bought a castle without telling his wife. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Orr was an eccentric midget, a freakish, likable dwarf with a smutty mind and a thousand valuable skills that would keep him in a low income group all his life. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even by the standards of the superstitious ancient Greeks, Pythagoras’s beliefs were eccentric. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

With time, the queries about our adopted—and decidedly eccentric— little boy had mercifully ceased, and, considering how tactless Afghan queries can be sometimes, that was a considerable relief. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s eccentric, but he’s one of the oldest Lares. Been around since the legion was founded.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Now are you willing to concede that there is some faint connection, not necessarily between two eccentrics, but with a—um—general turn of mind that exists in some quarters across the water?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Eventually, one ancient Greek surpassed Zeno in matters of the infinite: Archimedes, the eccentric mathematician of Syracuse. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At best such men are regarded as eccentric; at worst, mad... Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And someone says that my Catholicism is a mere affectation, an attempt to play the Evelyn Waugh eccentric to a bland and vulgar secular age. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed that comets, like planets, move in ellipses: “Comets are a sort of planets revolved in very eccentric orbits about the Sun.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This property is rather eccentric,” Miss Marsh is telling Milton one September afternoon as she leads him up the driveway. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dad says the old lady who owned it was really eccentric, maybe even crazy. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The mostly uncharted area and its exploratory bounty provoke this eccentric, witty and chummy group — experts in archaeology, marine biology, geology and the visual arts — to philosophize on evolution and humankind's impact. Science, art at play in 'Expedition to the End of the World' 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

The visual effects add some serious magic of their own, starting with King's eccentric style. 'Paddington' brings irresistible bear to life 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Doonan is like your bossy, eccentric uncle with perfect taste and inflexible ideas. Simon Doonan Has Been Keeping Busy 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

The Marvel Comics course is not the only eccentric subject offered at U.S. universities. Ka-pow! Marvel Comics heroes get academic treatment at Baltimore college 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Zwigoff continued his investigation of eccentric American creators with this portrait of the underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Freud’ and ‘Ghost World’ 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Youth was an elegant, eccentric sketch with some hilarious flourishes, of which only this director is capable. Cannes 2015: Peter Bradshaw predicts the award-winners and Palme d'Or 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

A filmmaker with a toymaker’s heart, Jeunet delights in seeding his movies with eccentric, often menacing gadgets, so it’s no surprise that his wayward androids are more enjoyable than his self-involved human characters. ‘Bigbug’ Review: Rise of the Machines 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Bejewelled crockery aside, however, the Windsors seem quite normal compared to these notably eccentric diners: Bacon and eggs for every meal: absurd diets of the rich and famous 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

That job, honestly, probably required an actor who was himself a bit of an eccentric, in the best, unashamed way; beyond his acting work, he recorded music and spoken-word albums and composed free-verse poetry. He Was the Cosmos: How Leonard Nimoy Made Spock a Mystical Force 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The subject matter, and Gallo's reputation as an uncompromising, eccentric artist, make it one of the more eagerly anticipated movies in competition. Venice film festival opens and gambles on youth 2010-08-31T22:59:00Z

As in the first movie, Blanc is summoned to a gathering of rich eccentrics to solve a mystery. The No-Spoilers Guide to ‘Glass Onion,’ the ‘Knives Out’ Sequel 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

Savile was, in the words of his obituary in the Daily Telegraph, "an eccentric adornment to British public life," known for his platinum hair, garish tracksuits, chunky gold jewelry and ever-present cigars. TV show claims UK TV host Savile abused children 2012-10-02T13:36:08Z

To my fiancée, Mary Beth, Virginia-born and North Carolina-raised, I was eccentric only in the wide tent I pitched for smoked meat. Before the Wedding, a Test: 3,000 Miles of Barbecue 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Even within Harlem — home of “pizzazz, spunk, charisma, character,” as he puts it — he and his friends were more flamboyant than most, the eccentric outcasts. Critic?s Notebook: ASAP Rocky, New York Rapper With a Hint of Elsewhere 2011-10-12T22:28:45Z

Mirren compared the widow Winchester, whom she called “fascinating,” to jilted spinster Miss Haversham from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” a literary character famous for being an eccentric, distraught recluse who lives in the past. Helen Mirren delves into the haunted mystery of 'Winchester' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

More eccentric, if just as dazzlingly done, are David Fertig’s small pastels on paper inspired by scenes and figures from the Napoleonic Wars. Some eerie, startling work at Prographica’s ‘Figures & Faces’ 2013-12-26T20:43:44Z

But it’s also responsible for a lively, eccentric culture. ‘The Last Race’ Review: Long Island’s Fading Car Craze 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

How does a museum shape such eccentric holdings into something so thoroughly exhilarating? Museum Review: Shelburne Museum Is Opening a New Visitors Center 2013-08-16T22:18:25Z

Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/3hafz A man lights a large pipe to mark the beginning of the Chap Olympiad, an eccentric sporting event held in Bedford Square in London. Chap Olympiad 2013 - in pictures 2013-07-15T11:04:41Z

The musical group’s eccentric, often percussive instrumentation adds new layers to a movie without ever distracting from what’s on screen. Movie Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

This guy’s this eccentric character, bigger than life, and you’re going right to the edge of parody or shtick, and then pulling back. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

A cult crackpot who is at the same time a perfectly recognizable English eccentric, she addresses herself only to true believers. Angela Lansbury keeps spirits high in 'Blithe Spirit' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

For an actress known for her eccentric roles — Bonham Carter is most recognized these days as the Harry Potter series' villainous Bellatrix Lestrange — the bold declaration of independence was entirely in character. Oscars: Hollywood's death march of manners 2011-02-25T01:04:33Z

In person, he’s more eccentric, modulating his pace unpredictably and occasionally flashing a passionate political conviction. On Comedy: Appreciating the Comics Sean Patton and Ted Alexandro 2014-03-12T20:01:16Z

Maybe the vibe was in the air, during the anniversary of a long-ago summer of love, when I planted several irresistibly eccentric beauties. The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The mice, you remember, skitter through the dream world of Clara, a young German girl who receives a bright red nutcracker from her eccentric godfather at a grand Christmas Eve party. Mice make mischief at McCaw Hall 2010-11-29T22:16:00Z

Where would we be if these troubled, eccentric and hang-it-all characters hadn't known how to lie, and lie well? 'Double Cross': A spy story with high stakes 2012-07-25T21:47:09Z

Kaufman's eccentric comedy act often incorporated elaborate pranks Cult comedy star Andy Kaufman faked his own death in 1984 and is still alive, his brother has claimed. Comedian Kaufman 'faked his death' 2013-11-14T11:59:34Z

On dark days and evenings, its enormous, eccentric windows will act like inviting beacons of light, attracting eyes and feet. Why Can’t New York City Build More Gems Like This Queens Library? 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Two recent French films differ in their interpretations of eccentric love. Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z

The goal when sitting around this eccentric hideaway isn't to stand out. In 'Casa Valentina,' cross-dressing men show their feminine side 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

To support himself in the style to which he would like to become accustomed Emerenziano sets his eye on the three spinster daughters of a recently deceased wealthy eccentric. DVD: A Version of Gogol?s Short Story ?The Overcoat? on DVD 2012-01-13T18:02:55Z

They broke social boundaries too – screening a live religious blessing of a gay couple, for instance - though their stories often tended towards the eye-popping and eccentric. Richard and Judy: 'I wouldn't remotely want to do television again' 2011-02-07T08:00:06Z

Timothy Spall was named British actor of the year for his role as the eccentric British painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh's Mr Turner. Boyhood adds to film awards haul 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

The shambling, eccentric Terry is so lost in his world of gadgets that he reacts to the surrounding drama with a sheepish, good-natured shrug, as if none of it were his problem. Movie Review: ‘The Oranges,’ Directed by Julian Farino 2012-10-04T23:32:00Z

In lieu of an actual competition, the producers trot out a series of hard-luck cases, weirdos, precocious children, and wild-eyed eccentrics to warm the hearts of sleep-deprived Americans. Simon Cowell without the insults: what's the point? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Rather than being this out-of-control eccentric, they saw him as the ultimate artist, the ultimate perfectionist, but at the same time respectful of other people.” Michael Jackson?s Estate Prospers a Year After His Death 2010-06-22T22:23:00Z

"My guess is that he would be a cranky 70-year-old, a not-so-English eccentric, ridiculed by many, still venerated by fans," Beech wrote. John Lennon fans mark anniversary of singer's murder in New York City 2010-12-08T19:49:00Z

Not as trivial as it sounds: it took almost a hundred years before his conjecture was proved by an eccentric Russian mathematician, Grigori Perelman, who then dramatically refused the million dollar prize for solving it. Henri Poincaré: the unlikely link between Einstein and Picasso 2012-07-17T11:48:23Z

It may sound like an eccentric plot device, or perhaps a heavy-handed metaphor for wealth inequality. Parasite, Us and the movies' subterranean blues 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

The watches utilize an eccentric wheel connected to a cam that is responsible for the progressive approach and separation of the hour plates. Timepieces That Reflect the Past 2012-11-22T13:07:04Z

Shareen Vintage in New York is an eccentric site — an unmarked black door above a hair salon — with almost obnoxiously weird store hours. Critical Shopper: Adopting a Look, No Boys Allowed 2011-02-16T19:14:51Z

Like Richard Holmes’s “Age of Wonder” this book invests scientists with big, eccentric personalities. Books of The Times: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message 2011-03-06T22:55:16Z

This isn’t to say that Mr. Macintyre has embellished his teeming cast of eccentrics. Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z

Benedict Cumberbatch excels at playing eccentric geniuses, both real and fictitious. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

In other circumstances, this eccentric journey undertaken by two self-aware middle-aged men might prove highly revealing. Swandown – review 2012-07-19T20:30:00Z

His eclectic works also differ from one another, but they all seem to express a particular, peculiar sensibility: elegant, eccentric, serious, wry, fascinated by contradictions, susceptible to beauty but skeptical, too. Dance Review: Douglas Dunn’s Autobiographical ‘Aubade’ 2014-01-28T22:32:46Z

Instead of the imaginative flights of original fiction, these series offer big, showy performances, built around eccentric, flamboyant figures. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Welcome to just some of the life of Betsey Johnson, the eccentric and frenetic fashion designer whose personality goes on display in a reality television series beginning on Sunday on U.S. cable network Style. Fashion's Betsey Johnson goes to therapy in made-for-TV comeback 2013-05-10T16:32:55Z

The Oscar-winning director's tale about an eccentric auctioneer, played by Geoffrey Rush, who becomes obsessed with a reclusive heiress won best film. Rush film wins six Silver Ribbons 2013-07-08T12:10:20Z

Linda Radlett, the intensely English heroine, is the most beautiful of an eccentric aristocratic family closely modelled on Nancy Mitford's own. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

But it’s hard to resist the eccentric top spin that these performers so happily put on their lines. Review: ‘Tin Cat Shoes,’ a Commentary on the Silliness of the System 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

As I discovered over the next three days, almost every corner of Isle of Youth — or simply La Isla, as it is referred to by residents — hides an equally eccentric saga. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Serial killers who rely on especially perverse or eccentric techniques tend to fascinate the public the most. A True-Crime Veteran on Our Fascination with Serial Killers 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Interviews with his brother, friends and fans establish his eccentric genius and consistency. 'Man on a Mission': Tourist boldly goes into space 2012-02-16T21:35:09Z

Typically, Valentine — an exceptionally genial excavator of half-forgotten and eccentric books — looks at more than Shanks’s account of humanity’s reversion to Neolithic barbarism. Review | Forget the bestseller list: These lesser-known works deserve your attention 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Her eccentric sound exercises—what she once called “recipes” for listening—briefly went viral. Listening as Activism: The “Sonic Meditations” of Pauline Oliveros 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

After throwing a glass of wine against the wall at a family dinner, her beloved, eccentric Aunt Frannie lands in Adult Psychiatric Ward 84 for what appears to be depression. Preteen Angst, Swedish Style 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

This eccentric volume is a kind of artist’s book/self-portrait masquerading as an exhibition catalog. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

I feel a little bit older today, and more appreciative of the eccentric, brilliant genius who luckily came my way as a kid growing up in the pre-grunge, pre-Internet era. ‘Prince Was Our True Artist’: Readers Share Their Memories 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, his output was much more varied and eccentric than people realize. At Auction, Unknown Warhol Sculpture That Was Gift to Boyfriend 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

In “retirement”, he has also had success, most prominently as an eccentric commentator and pundit for the BBC’s tennis coverage, which the channel has confirmed he will be doing again this year. Bizarre Becker: Sad and turbulent saga of a fallen tennis champion 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Eurovision is famous for some, er, eccentric entries — this year’s competition will include such numbers as “Give That Wolf a Banana” and “Eat Your Salad,” which live up to their titles. ‘American Song Contest’ Puts a Stateside Spin on Eurovision 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Each night, she plays the quirky and eccentric medium Madame Arcati with the energy of a desperate understudy. Angela Lansbury’s road, from ‘Murder, She Wrote’ to Noël Coward 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The film was an artfully ragged series of vignettes about young eccentrics played largely by nonprofessionals knocking around Austin. Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer and Face of Generation X, Dies at 60 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

The gallery is sharing a booth with the Thomas Dane Gallery of London and showing works by various artists under the banner of “eccentric figuration.” Frieze New York Expanding Its Scope 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The paintings, drawings, collages, assemblages, ceramics, weavings and videos on view are variously funny, funky, quirky, eccentric, idiosyncratic and visionary. ‘Unorthodox’ Faces Paradox at the Jewish Museum 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Partridge remembers her eccentric relative fondly, as a brilliant friend rather than an adoring grandmother. SAM exhibition shows why Seattle’s Imogen Cunningham is one of the leading photographers of her time 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

Could there be a more eccentric way to begin women’s ready-to-wear than a topless male model slinging a bright blue faux fur chair on his back? Dior reimagines feminist fashion in history in Paris show 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

But he’s proved over a fruitful and varied career that he can be eccentric with a purpose. T Magazine: The Many Mutations of Beck 2011-12-05T19:07:03Z

Mozart in the Jungle about an eccentric conductor that shakes up an old-fashioned symphony world was also chosen through the pilot process. Amazon's Hysterical, Saucy 'Catastrophe' Marks An Inspired Win In The Binge Wars 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Under the homogenizing hands of certain doctors, a creature of eccentric charms can be made to look positively plain. | 'The New York Idea': Love in City of Intemperate Mores 2011-01-27T03:01:13Z

Robbins has always been an elegant, if eccentric, stylist. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins

It would not be a British occasion without a touch of the eccentric, irreverent and even downright tacky. Queen's jubilee a fiesta for souvenir-sellers 2012-06-02T11:16:14Z

There are rapids, Germans, breakdowns and hungry leeches to negotiate, but it's less an action thriller than an eccentric opposites-attract romance, fuelled by the unexpected chemistry between its middle-aged leads. Anjelica Huston: My father John's wildest shoot 2010-05-11T20:35:00Z

At the center of it all was technical director Christopher Clayton Hutton, an eccentric former movie publicist who was MI9’s answer to James Bond’s gadget guru Q. Monopoly vs. the Nazis: How British intelligence used board games to thwart the Germans 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Set among military service people and contractors in Hawaii, it’s a loose, leisurely hangout movie, funny and sprawling and full of eccentric, interesting folks. Review: ‘Aloha,’ a Hangout Movie With Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone in Hawaii 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Prince of Grief” is a stylized, eccentric riff on “Hamlet” rather than a condensed version of the play, which is probably just as well. Theater Review: ‘Hamlet, Prince of Grief’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-14T21:58:50Z

“At the high point of my career, I did 11 shows a year,” Mr. Smith, who recently turned 80, said at his home, an Upper West Side brownstone brimming with an eccentric personal collection. There’s No Business Like Art Fair Business for Sanford Smith 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

It was able to flourish in large part thanks to the most eccentric of aid organisations, the Serious Road Trip. Amira Medunjanin, the Balkan Billie Holiday 2013-01-20T06:30:00Z

Geronimo Rex was set in a fictional Louisiana town called Dream of Pines, whose eccentric characters recalled those of modern southern writers such as Donald Harington. Barry Hannah obituary 2010-05-20T17:43:00Z

It would be interesting to see how the eccentric California painter Roy De Forest holds up, what with the several returns of representation and of painting since he emerged. 2010-02-14T03:58:00Z

At the height of his fame, Starr was known by fans for his eccentric and often unpredictable behaviour. Freddie Starr found dead at home in Spain aged 76 – reports 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

A familiar face to British television viewers and theatregoers, Ritter played Martin Goodman, the eccentric father of a London Jewish family, in the Channel 4 sitcom “Friday Night Dinner.” ‘Chernobyl’ and ‘Harry Potter’ actor Paul Ritter dies at 54 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Dickinson’s penmanship grew eccentric over time, as did her compositional methods. ‘I’m Nobody’? Not a Chance, Emily Dickinson 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

This thrilling novel follows the history of a 20th-century fortune, focusing on the marriage between a reclusive financier and his eccentric, brilliant wife. Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Quite frankly, none of the spaces look that remarkable; there are no bursts of design genius or eccentric collections. T Magazine: Editor’s Letter 2013-08-23T23:30:18Z

On the formal side was Hackett, with its soft tailoring for jolly boating weather: regular pieces interspersed with the coral pants, madras plaid jackets and paisley patterns of English eccentrics. Shorts Reign in a Men's Wear Jubilee 2012-06-18T12:37:03Z

Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy. Groundbreaking improv comic Jonathan Winters dies 2013-04-12T17:08:10Z

All day, kind and eccentric locals popped in to say hello. A Critic Sells Books Down by the Seashore 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Even their eclectic cast of baristas also double  as artists and musicians, endowing Gaudy with its distinctive eccentric charm. In Transit Blog: Berlin Imports Coffee, and Its Culture 2011-12-23T11:00:02Z

From one disembodied twitch to the next, the dance builds on theatrical boldness, on eccentric humor. The Wednesday Dance Is an Invitation. Be Weird. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

The new “Last Days of Coney Island” is a crowd-funded cops and gangsters short, full of Bakshi’s now beloved eccentrics and street freaks. They don’t make them like Ralph Bakshi anymore: “Now, animators don’t have ideas. They just like to move things around” 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Haynes did not call on critics or historians to venture theories or explain the band’s importance, and the closest we come to a musicological analysis is delivered by the eccentric Velvets protégé Jonathan Richman. The Velvet Underground Meets Its Match in Todd Haynes 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

On a weekend when "Cinderella" and its old-fashioned storytelling captured the box office, a different tale, about eccentric real estate scion Robert Durst, dominated our consciousness. With 'The Jinx,' a long yet murky tradition of documentary activism 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Funk art, a more bohemian rejection of highfalutin pure abstraction, is especially well represented in eccentric ceramic sculptures by David Gilhooly and Robert Arneson. Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Neatly made of metal, wood, plastic and celluloid, mostly in shades of gray and white, the model is an inspiring monument to eccentric grandiosity. Art Review: ?Jubilation/Rumination? at American Folk Art Museum 2012-01-27T00:08:07Z

The movie focuses on the eccentrics who, beginning in 1929, settled on Floreana, a small, uninhabited island in the remote Galápagos archipelago, 575 miles west of Ecuador in the southern Pacific. Movie Review: ‘Galapagos Affair,’ Historical Documentary of Island Expats 2014-04-03T23:28:00Z

Little does Levy realize that Susan, who assembles an ensemble through Craigslist, proceeds to sell a real show to a network about a Hollywood eccentric who thinks he’s starring in a hidden camera reality series. Big-name cast can't save 'Me' from vanity-project blues 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

Alongside his role in Taxi, Andy Kaufman was an eccentric performance artist who often staged elaborate pranks that entertained, confused and at times frustrated his fans. Kaufman brother is 'victim of a hoax' 2013-11-15T11:18:59Z

Dark Blood, which sees Phoenix play an eccentric kidnapper, will be shown at the Miami International Film Festival. Phoenix film to get US premiere 2013-01-17T09:34:45Z

Turing, an eccentric visionary stuck in an organization that is bureaucratic, hierarchical and wedded to tradition, is an apostle of innovation. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

To their chocolate bars—eccentric, expensive curios—they bring the devotion of priests. The Way Forward for Hipster Food 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

In 1980 he released the gloriously raunchy “Rapp Dirty,” which he said he had written more than a decade earlier, and which became a touchstone for a future wave of profane, eccentric rappers. Clarence Reid, Singer and Songwriter Also Known as Blowfly, Dies at 76 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

The book also bogs down in descriptions of the eccentric collectors Blackburn meets, whose homes and garages overflow with the bones of extinct rhinos and the teeth of bygone shrews. Thousands of Years Ago, a Different Sort of Brexit 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Cummings is an eccentric genius, prone to alienating his peers by stubbornly pushing his own agenda — a part Cumberbatch might know a thing or two about playing. 19 HBO original programs to be excited about in 2019 — "True Detective," "Watchmen," and more 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

“It might have been an eccentric thing to do,” he says. Writer, cross-country traveler visits Seattle and Spokane on his cultural tour of the United States 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

As if to drive that point home, the next segment, Baby Shower, finally lets her play a kooky eccentric,but it’s similarly awkward and unintentionally cringe-worthy. Saturday Night Live: lukewarm sketches don't get big laughs 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Her prose could be lush, or raw and demotic, or carefree and eccentric, often on a single page. Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

All the better to draw new attention to a thoroughly eccentric song, one that references both Los Angeles and Ms. Richards’s birthplace, Louisiana, while going through multiple sonic metamorphoses. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

He was known for ruminative, melancholic, often eccentric movies about grand subjects like the nature of love and the ever-present specter of death. Manoel de Oliveira, Pensive Filmmaker Who Made Up for Lost Time, Is Dead 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

It’s worth mentioning that some nominees — like Neal Stephenson, the eccentric visionary whose novel “Seveneves” is up for an award — are both widely respected across the political spectrum and championed by the conservative groups. Sci-fi’s Tea Party trolls go to war: Battle over prestigious Hugo Awards heats up 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

The festival is to the music world what the town is to the rest of Southern California: a lovably eccentric jewel, a tiny explosion of beauty, weirdness and overkill. A Quirky Violinist and a Festival to Match 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Another composite anagram, 'eccentric geeks 0' being an anagram of 'e.g. rocket science'. Azed slip No. 2,087 2012-06-24T11:00:00Z

Cage famously blew the fortune he made in 90s blockbusters The Rock, Face/Off and Con Air on, among other things, some fabulously eccentric real estate purchases around the world, including a castle in Somerset. Nicolas Cage: ‘If I don’t have a job to do, I can be very self-destructive’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Rather than being explosive or inward, he’s a moderate with sophisticated harmonic knowledge and a strong blues sensibility, and — on a good night — phrases full of eccentric wisdom. Beyond Popping Corks, the Sounds of the New Year 2010-12-23T23:06:06Z

What admirers in the design world could not know, however, was that in private, Mr. Wong was given to fits of eccentric behavior that went above and beyond his boundary-pushing professional exploits. The Life of Tobias Wong, Designer 2010-06-25T22:17:00Z

In an interview ahead of a recital in Hamburg, he said Reicha’s music was “eccentric and esoteric. He was big on imagining different possibilities.” A Friend of Beethoven, Now Rediscovered in His Own Right 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

But, he added, “the seriousness of its themes in no way detracts from the delight in watching Ms. Hayek and Mr. Lithgow perform their eccentric, intricate dance.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Beatriz at Dinner’ and ‘Nocturnal Animals’ 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

Opening an exhibition about his career, he gets serious about life and laughter - and why he does not like being called eccentric. Ken Dodd: Don't call me eccentric 2013-11-08T08:12:01Z

She was something of an eccentric local celebrity, only leaving the house to film her show and to have a daily martini at her local bar. 'Ahead of her time': the woman who recorded the news for 30 years 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Franco, who also stars as the eccentric, strangely accented Wiseau in “The Disaster Artist,” said he believed the film conveyed Wiseau’s passion for the medium, despite “The Room” being critically panned. Franco hopes 'Disaster Artist' conveys passion of worst film ever made 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

These titles could pass for flash fiction, but the paintings, with their marbled colors, eccentric drawing style and razor-sharp edges, have an unfiltered excess of detail. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Chambers is the Grace Coddington figure of this film: the breakout star with her more-upfront approach, artistic visions and eccentric yet elegant fashion sense. Behind the Scenes at British Vogue 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

The book’s hero is Ludovic Fleury, an orphan being raised by his eccentric uncle, a postmaster and kite maker, in a small town in Normandy. Underneath Romain Gary’s Many Masks 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

After 18 years of trying to get noticed, the rapper and teenage eccentric Lil Yachty has been forced recently to practice blending in. The Sudden Rise of Lil Yachty 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

When her eccentric uncle offers her the opportunity to go to Antarctica, she's delighted – but Uncle Victor's unnerving behaviour and the dark cold of the South Pole are more than Sym bargains for. Best children's books: 12-years-old and over 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z

This was around the time that the reclusive billionaire, then in his late 50s, was growing increasingly eccentric. Review: ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Features Warren Beatty as Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

If Jones’ diatribes were directed at a more benign subject, like sports, we might think him merely eccentric — a fun heel to hate, like Skip Bayless. Could Alex Jones possibly be a brilliant artist? 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

By contrast, the backwoods Louisiana setting of "Duck Dynasty" provides colorful trappings for a comfortably eccentric and engaging brood. It's 'Duck Dynasty' season as A&E hit flies high 2013-03-05T15:04:08Z

As in my book, it ignores those I think of as designer eccentrics: people who affect a wackiness that may be contrived, not simply spontaneous. David McKie's top 10 eccentrics in literature 2011-03-02T11:31:07Z

No longer surrounded by a television newsroom full of eccentrics, Grant transformed into a stern, wise newspaper editor who stood for truth and justice in a world that expected moral compromise. Ed Asner helped usher in the secular rabbi, making America warmer and a little more Jewish 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

He has overcome a cancer diagnosis to give some of the warmest and most eccentric performances of his career. Michael Douglas Refuses to Age Gracefully in ‘The Kominsky Method’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Taking the stage at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Anderson highlighted the history of the locale in his typically droll and eccentric acceptance speech. WGA Awards 2015: 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' and 'The Imitation Game' take top honors 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

Preparing for the role, Carell interviewed people who knew the eccentric sportsman and read books about him. 3 hours of makeup later, Steve Carell becomes John du Pont for ‘Foxcatcher’ 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Sampson, one of his most distinguished editorial acquisitions, thought that the paper was more like a family charity, or an eccentric college, than a commercial newspaper. Per ardua ad Astor 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

“His innovative nature led him to become one of the greatest remixing and studio effects guru,” Holness said, adding that people have described Perry as an “eccentric character” who was loved by many. Jamaican reggae legend “Lee Scratch” Perry dies at 85 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

He is eccentric in his pursuits but is equable in person, careful in his speech and a fan of civilized but endless argument. Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z

There were so many better, more original ways to be an eccentric: Wear scary clown makeup, dress in a tutu, smoke crack with your cabbie. Wigs are my superhero costume 2012-10-12T23:30:00Z

“Vida’s San Francisco is ramshackle and eccentric, home to heiresses but also tide pools of counterculture backwash,” Molly Fischer writes in her review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

That career path was derailed when, in 1915, he joined Riverbank Laboratories, a research institute founded by the eccentric textile magnate George Fabyan. ‘Decoding the Renaissance,’ at the Folger Shakespeare 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Such was the stunning beauty of Jane Russell, and the marketing skills of the man who discovered her, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. Screen siren Jane Russell dies 2011-03-01T15:30:00Z

Radio Jackie is a rather eccentric station broadcasting to south-west London from a former post office on a busy Surbiton high street. A day in the life of Radio Jackie, with Peter Robinson 2013-03-02T05:59:00Z

It's that local spot where everybody knows your name, where policemen drop by to sip and dunk, where eccentrics are welcome. Coffee and the American dream, served up in snappy, moving 'Superior Donuts' 2012-10-04T20:05:11Z

They created an eccentric, brightly painted retreat, now a museum — more Caribbean mansion than Florida estate — near a swamp where alligators thrived. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 2010-11-28T04:30:00Z

Eventually the media blitz devolves into something sadder as we see Walter cycle through his 15 minutes of eccentric fame, ceding more and more of himself to the Beaver. The Beaver: Can You Forgive Him? 2011-05-04T18:10:00Z

I imagine Siberia as the backdrop to an old dusty room with eccentric furniture and tropical plants.” Animal Wallpaper From London Firm Witch & Watchman 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

He stumbles into an unlikely friendship with Marcelo, his mother’s eccentric boyfriend and is startled to discover that “communion with others was possible.” Newly Released Books Include ‘Chronicle of a Last Summer’ 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

In the mold of British eccentrics such as Julian Cope and Robyn Hitchcock, Albarn turns the opening tracks on his soundtrack for the English opera “Dr. Dee” into a bucolic reverie. Album review: Damon Albarn, 'Dr. Dee' 2012-05-07T15:28:00Z

A full-length work lasting 105 minutes with one intermission, it’s both eccentric and affecting. ‘Sunset, o639 Hours,’ a BalletX World Premiere 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The canvases are populated with eccentric, black-outlined entities that combine qualities of mammals, insects and amoebas. In the galleries: Inspired by their homelands and beyond 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

In a London where builders' rubbish chutes are tethered to scaffolding like "exposed digestive tracts", up pops the lonely, eccentric Samantha. Nimrod's Shadow by Chris Paling 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

She left an indelible stamp on underground films like “Trash” and “Women in Revolt,” and was a talented if eccentric cabaret performer and an erstwhile heroine of the transgender movement. Remembering Holly Woodlawn, a Transgender Star of the Warhol Era 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Streep, one of the most admired and honoured actors of her generation, is nominated for playing an eccentric opera singer in the comedy Florence Foster Jenkins. Meryl Streep lambasts Karl Lagerfeld over Oscars dress 'slander' 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Wes described Madame D as a very wealthy art collector about 90 years old, eccentric and beautiful. Milena Canonero's 'Grand Budapest' costumes match Wes Anderson's vision 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Lady Pamela presents an honest yet blithe portrayal of her famous, eccentric family and offers a rare glimpse into the inner circle of Britain’s royalty. ‘Daughter of Empire’: life at the top of England’s aristocracy 2013-12-31T23:07:05Z

Known for her over-the-top death scenes, Bernhardt had a flair for melodrama, and in her private life, too, she was eccentric with a taste for the macabre. Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Snoo was a warm and generous man, a loyal friend and as wonderfully eccentric as his work. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z

Its 11 storeys of bookstacks were connected to the historic heart of the library by an eccentric underground books railway, so unreliable that the most precious volumes were carried across the traffic-choked street by hand. Bodleian Library sets up in Swindon 2010-10-07T09:38:00Z

The role is a far cry from "Amelie," the touching 2001 story of a shy Parisienne waitress who changes the lives of those around her through eccentric acts of kindness. Audrey Tautou grown up at Cannes finale 2012-05-27T19:31:05Z

What we said: An elegant, eccentric relationship comedy of ideas, highly rarefied and possessed of an almost inscrutable sophistication. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

As for Mr. Rodchenkov, in “Icarus” he evolves from an eccentric character into a courageous man who is forced to make some difficult decisions. ‘Icarus’ Puts Russia, Cycling and Doping Into One Cocktail 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

We don’t know whether to canonize him, medicate him or just pat him cautiously on the head, like an eccentric, troubled child. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The most eccentric aspect of the piece is the way Knightley's accent lurches from posh to cockney. Brave new world dominated by Pixar 2012-06-26T10:02:12Z

The part-crime, part character-driven U.S. show follows hundreds of movies, TV series and books about, or inspired by, the eccentric amateur London detective with superb logical skills and his long-suffering friend. Why more Sherlocks? That's elementary, my dear Watson 2012-09-27T10:04:38Z

Like Sarah Larson, I was also mesmerized by the new podcast “S-Town,” which at first seems like yet another true-crime story but becomes an immensely moving investigation into the soul of a genuine eccentric. Weekly Culture Review: “Big Little Lies,” Pepsi, and More 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

She documents these secretive, often eccentric writers' lives and works and examines their decision to use pen names. 'Nom de Plume': why famous authors use pen names 2011-06-15T19:40:05Z

In the past, eccentric women tended to be aristocrats. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Hovering in the wings was George Yeoman Pocock, an eccentric Englishman who became a legend, building racing shells from his UW workshop for rowing programs across the country. ‘The Boys in the Boat’: UW team vanquishes Hitler’s crew 2013-05-29T22:21:04Z

His deep timbre and lilting Trinidadian accent had an off-kilter charm that made him an inspired choice to narrate Tim Burton's eccentric take on the twisted children's book by Roald Dahl. Geoffrey Holder: Five of his memorable movie roles 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Khaled tends to his garden, but with the gusto of an eccentric madman. The Goofy Charm of DJ Khaled’s “The Keys” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

A major part of the answer, Bird suggests, is Lillian Carter, a woman known as “Miss Lillian,” whom Carter later lovingly described as a Southern eccentric. The Many Successes of Jimmy Carter — and His Ultimate Failure 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

It shows Charles as a royal son, a father, an activist and an eccentric. Prince Charles is sad and sexy and maybe too nice to be king 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Family is a strong theme in the book, from your eccentric beginnings to the nontraditional family you went on to create for yourself. Kate Mulgrew of 'OITNB' shows her softer side in 'Born With Teeth' 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

The film depicts Rodriguez as an eccentric fellow whose early career was marred in part by performances where he played with his back to the audience. 'Sugar Man' Rodriguez plays to adoring NY crowd 2013-04-08T18:54:09Z

Stoic, philosopher, fantasist and eccentric, Cornelius — that’s his last name, nobody uses his first — absorbs his inevitable doom in such style that he makes you forget about your own. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z

The job they perform in “Title and Deed” is to illuminate, through a winding stream of eccentric anecdote and quirky insight, our essential homelessness in the world. Theater Review: ?Title and Deed,? by Will Eno, With Conor Lovett 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z

SZA is touring arenas this year, and singalongs will likely join her, phrase for eccentric phrase. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Elo is in straightforward mode here, largely eschewing the eccentric wiggles and squiggles that often permeate his movement, and creating a solid, even old-fashioned ballet-ballet. In ‘Dutch Doubles,’ 4 Choreographers, Inspired by 4 Artists 2014-04-21T12:35:07Z

Ugiansky works mostly in metal, contrasting regular or eccentric shapes and highly polished or rough-textured surfaces. Review | In the galleries: Blurring the boundary between sculpture and space 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Swell will emphasize some of the more eccentric sounds and techniques the instrument inspires. Weekend Miser: ‘The Carter Family Project’ at the Jalopy Theater 2013-01-10T20:19:48Z

In this immersive theater piece, audiences are invited to mingle with “eccentrics, hustlers, eternal youths, gods, monsters, disco queens and con men.” Theater Listings for Jan. 22-28 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. Shick’s choreography is, as usual, wonderfully alive with eccentric detail, with everyday gestures and formal ones seamlessly combined. Dance Review: Vicky Shick’s ‘Everything You See’ at Danspace Project 2013-04-19T20:20:37Z

In excerpts from “The Tall & Short of It,” Ryan P. Casey moved deliberately across the front of the stage to show the sheer stretch of his lanky, eccentric body. ‘Tap and Song’ at Symphony Space 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

She is returned to her father, a rich recluse who is made more eccentric by grief. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

The combination of eccentric villagers and Doc Martin’s curmudgeonly personality result in awkward moments. A tale of two TV series: Favorite shows chart the itinerary for a U.K. journey 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The first massive tower emerged at the apex of the High Line, looming over it, a shingled, spiky, reflective blue-glass behemoth, shaped by eccentric cuts and angles, as if sheared by a giant Ginsu knife. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Vowing to do right by her, Warren becomes entangled with the Mélange Center, an eccentric organization that runs a charter school for mixed-race people who want to claim multiple identities. “You get a cookie for being offended”: Mat Johnson on the fine art of racial satire 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

An eccentric comedy from George Harrison’s Handmade Films is the first of two pairings for Smith and the film’s screenwriter-star Michael Palin. Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Written in French by an eccentric Pole, this is heady stuff. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

When she writes another installment, she would be wise to keep her own eccentric image — unhelpful, and highly visible during the book’s launch — from overshadowing those of her characters. ‘The Witch Elm,’ ‘Dopesick’ and More: Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

As dryly eccentric as the show sounds, Lord and Miller says they are aiming for something big, not a cult favorite. 'Last Man on Earth' has the last laugh 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

The next several films were a blur of European avant-garde pastiche; family memories; eccentric portraits of activists, scientists, a man delivering newspapers. A Mesmerizing Marathon of Robert Frank’s Movies 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Yet when his thinking grows too extreme or eccentric – the curse of many a little-challenged media magnate – his influence diminishes. Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight – review 2013-02-20T07:01:01Z

And that records were becoming a people's medium rather than a weirdo's or an eccentric's medium. "Record stores changed our lives": New doc "Vinyl Nation" celebrates Record Store Day at home 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Ike no Taiga, who was immersed in literati culture and wowed people by painting, impromptu, with his fingers, gives us big scrawly portraits of Chinese eccentrics. Art Review: A Cascade of Petals From the Met’s Japanese Collection 2014-01-30T23:17:46Z

And when I started I did well with these ... eccentric people. Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy' 2013-03-21T19:00:03Z

Now that Broadway is an international brand name, he sighs, some of its product is, inevitably, “more generic and less eccentric, less unusual, less New York.” ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical’ — from ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Hamilton’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

What initially appeared to be a charming muse on the lives of two eccentric metal-detecting hobbyists soon revealed itself to be something more profound. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Sally Hawkins will appear as Mrs Brown, while Julie Walters will be their eccentric housekeeper Mrs Bird. Gambon joins Paddington film cast 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

New Yorkers who prize conversation starters above all other consumables will likely find eccentric treasures at this modest but enjoyable show. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

There was one place where, even if he still didn’t feel at ease, Goldstein could at least rub elbows with other angst-ridden eccentrics. Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

But now I like it for that very reason—it’s more subjective and more eccentric, and therefore more fun. The Year Is Ending: What?s On Your List? 2011-11-18T17:19:05Z

More bewildering white nonsense transpires, whirling to an apex when Leanne and George disappear with an eccentric aunt wielding a death stare . . . and so does living Jericho, replaced by a doll yet again. My mistake: M. Night Shyamalan's "Servant" is actually a comedy under the impression it's a thriller 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

Was it the eccentric billionaire who worked with her on a secretive A.I. project? Peering Into the Future of Novels, With Trained Machines Ready 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

Including those items is part of the museum’s effort at redefinition, although the curators were drawing on an eccentric set of collections that were never really part of the natural history tradition. Museum Review: The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, Redesigned 2013-08-02T19:53:12Z

No, Littlefield Concert Hall at Mills, in Oakland, Calif., is a vibrant, even eccentric place, where it is clear from the surroundings that music outside the mainstream is not simply tolerated, but celebrated. Is the Music Over at Mills College? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

The same compliment is owed to Stott for the manner in which he tells this eccentric story. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

"Grey Gardens" is based on the 1975 documentary film by Albert and David Maysles about two eccentric women living in a tumble-down Long Island mansion. 'Grey Gardens' replaces 'Titanic' in the Ahmanson's current season 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

He is presented as a rather eccentric character – obsessed with counting everything in sight. Sesame Street's Count von Count and the lack of foreign voices on children's TV 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

Who would figure that Mary Astor’s life would provide such entertaining reading, but in Sorel’s colloquial, eccentric style, the tale he tells is juicy, funny and, in the end, touching. Woody Allen Reviews a Graphic Tale of a Scandalous Starlet 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

A peroxide-addled pod of identical male triplets from Stockholm were intrigued enough to swagger over and make inquiries about my eccentric look. T Magazine: A Leg Man 2011-03-10T16:00:01Z

Mr. Lorenz expressed a certain defensive pride about his vocation, telling The Times in 1993, “People think of cartoonists as eccentric, marginal types and forget it’s a profession.” Lee Lorenz, 90, Cartoonist and Gatekeeper at The New Yorker, Dies 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

Unlike Cosby, he never married and maintained a public image as an eccentric bachelor. The world let these monsters get away with it: Bill Cosby, Jimmy Savile & the license to commit hideous crimes 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Americans’ passion for the show appears to have benefitted from the stereotypes of British people as drunken, outspoken, and eccentric. The Glorious Depravity of the British “Love Island” 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Grima and Herda push back against the eccentric, insistent architecture of the Cultural Center, installing work in its courtyard and stairwells and across its front facade. In Chicago, an ambitious biennial for architecture banishes the stars and anoints a new generation 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

McCain capped her gloss on the ills of the British monarchy with one of her more eccentric word salads to date, this one infused with a touch of patriotism, history, and feminism combined. Meghan McCain's rant on Meghan Markle leaves Whoopi Goldberg visibly stumped 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

But there were witty moments as the action unfolded in Donald Eastman’s effective set, a crowded junk shop owned by the eccentric clockmaker Torquemada, sung by the tenor Spencer Lang. Music Review: Objects of Operatic Desire: Abundant Money and Men 2011-04-28T21:35:05Z

In the spring of 1894, thousands of unemployed workers, led by an eccentric Ohio businessman named Jacob Coxey, marched on Washington to demand jobs. For one wild era, walking was the nation’s No. 1 spectator sport 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

He was a very eccentric man who was also very generous. Tributes paid to actor Peter O'Toole 2013-12-16T17:25:16Z

Some say Film Socialism is an eccentric masterpiece; others that it's an eccentric mess. Cannes film festival diary: no joy in Godard 2010-05-19T09:22:00Z

“Ideologues of Brexit,” they say, “have been tireless in conjugating faux histories: eccentric, wayward and for the most part short of any persuasive meaning.” Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

With their confectionery colors and eccentric shapes, Memphis works — now stars at auction — are like cartoon versions of furniture. ‘The Memphis Group’ 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Only later, on my way to a PhD in early modern drama, did I realize how deeply eccentric Mr B’s taste was. You changed me: how my English teacher taught impeccable writing 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Self’s prose is often arch and self-consciously choppy; he’s frequently more interested in producing eccentric rhythms than in getting anything said. Books of The Times: ‘Umbrella’ by Will Self 2013-01-17T21:22:51Z

Their shows tend toward the personal, the eclectic, sometimes even the eccentric. A Fenómeno of the Flamenco World 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

The film carefully skirts the issue around whether Stokes was an eccentric visionary – an archivist of a medium that has come to define our lives – or an obsessive hoarder. 'Ahead of her time': the woman who recorded the news for 30 years 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

But it also has enough oddball touches, including its David Lynchian introduction walking through Radio City Music Hall, to convince the audience that this clean-cut comedian is much more eccentric than you thought. Best Comedy of 2018 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

In choosing the women she would represent, Ford was not terribly keen on eccentric looks, waif bodies or curvaceous figures. Eileen Ford and Ford Models helped define what American beauty looked like

Katt Williams, who played an eccentric owner of an alligator in a critically-lauded episode of “Atlanta,” won best guest actor in a comedy. John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Join the EGOT Club 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

At times the museum feels almost empty, like the tail end of some deeply eccentric yard sale. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

So in a way the Internet makes you much more conformist because you’re using criteria for who you think you should meet, when in fact you might enjoy meeting someone very eccentric. Our new era of hearbreak 2012-06-24T18:15:00Z

The more sensitively conceived, ingeniously elaborated and dazzlingly executed his work, the more bizarre, eccentric and nakedly pointless it appears. Review | Who wants to join the cult of video artist Matthew Barney? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The interplay, a duet with sweet and eccentric harmonies, is fascinating to observe, even as it undermines the overall structure of the narrative. ‘The Two Popes’ Review: Double Act at the Vatican 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Kim Fowley, the mercurial and eccentric music producer and Svengali who created and managed the all-female rock group the Runaways in the 1970s, died Thursday after a long battle with bladder cancer. Kim Fowley, the eccentric L.A. producer-manager who created the Runaways, is dead at 75 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

She may be defending the eccentric performer Tiny Tim, but her retort articulates the disassociation that Manson espoused. The Other Charles Manson Movie Has a Lot to Say 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

But if the various kinks work themselves out, “The Finder” will at the least be a medium-strength entry in the increasingly crowded field of comedy-dramas featuring eccentric characters. Television Review: ?The Finder,? From Hart Hanson, on Fox - Review 2012-01-11T22:44:27Z

Ron Moody's eccentric memoir about his path from would-be academic to established actor – culminating with his most famous role as Fagin in Lionel Bart's Oliver! – takes the warts-and-all approach one step further. A Still Untitled (Not Quite) Autobiography by Ron Moody – review 2013-04-26T18:00:01Z

There is a terrific, eccentric, cranky beauty in his wallpaper patterns, his murals, his book designs and especially in those gorgeous late lithographs. My Five Things: Cartoonist and Illustrator Seth 2011-10-26T17:54:28Z

These works are in a sense an eccentric kind of photorealism that goes beyond both photos and realism. Art Review: Recent David Hockney Work at the de Young in San Francisco 2013-12-23T23:10:14Z

In Hnath’s way of working, the actors say, it was a highly eccentric process. A quartet of actors take the gloves off in a play with four thrilling corners 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Hardly any of it prepared him for playing twins in a low-budget, eccentric comedy. Edward Norton visits Seattle for Seattle International Film Festival tribute 2010-06-07T05:23:00Z

He was as eccentric as his literary alter ego, Auntie Mame, a free-spirited character who shows her nephew how to live life to the fullest. Lost classic Auntie Mame revived after 50-year gap 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

After them, the Global Local stage still manages to be an eccentric treat. The Big Chill 2011-08-07T11:53:31Z

A drama revolving around an eccentric editor, a blind pitbull, Marilyn Monroe’s sweater and a washed-up writing professor whose wife just left him, and the living embodiment of a bummer. Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

This is a ghoulish, eccentric realm, the flowers replaced by oversize, awkwardly stretched bodies hanging over the stage, as in a grim cartoon. Review: In ‘L’Orfeo,’ Free Spirit and Brave Soul Unite 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

More generally it is impossible to imagine the career of Martin Kippenberger without this marvelous disarray and its eccentric variations on Minimalist cubes and tables. Art Review: Reflections on the Self and the Wider World 2010-12-16T23:33:38Z

While honing his music, which he often self-produces and records at home, Valee has turned odd hobbies into odd jobs, toeing the line between eccentric and modern-day Renaissance man. Valee, Kanye West’s New Signee, Is a Rapper Who Just Might Build You a Koi Pond 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

My plot involved various time layers and improbable interweavings of badly realised characters, and the digging up of Mayan eccentric flints – that's what they're called – in a part of Mesoamerica I knew little about. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z

It was a very funny, eccentric character, and it was the first big laugh I remember getting. Richard Briers on Cockneys Vs Zombies: 'I've popped up to play these terrible killers. It's great' 2012-11-08T15:00:11Z

I think eccentric is always better than evil. Confirm or Deny: Peter Thiel 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Rules Don’t Apply, set mostly in late 1950s Los Angeles, is a fantasia, a fictional portrait of an eccentric genius in the later years of his life, with a jumbled love story folded in. Review: Rules Don't Apply Rambles, But Beatty as Howard Hughes Is Still Something to See 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Now, at 71, he truly fits the image of a disheveled eccentric. Richard Goode Plays Bach and Schubert 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

According to the legend of the haunted house, the building was once home to the Cataract Coffin Factory, operated by the “eccentric” owner Abraham Mortimer, who was somewhat obsessed with his business. Halloween haunted house releases pictures of terrified visitors 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Her eccentric comedy with Mr. Irwin became all the more amazing here, because in ballerina roles this year, she attained a new degree of elegant refinement. Vail International Dance Festival Sets Itself Apart With an Enchanting Lineup 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

An unexpected encounter with his wildly eccentric young niece however proves to be his redemption as she teaches him to be free, creative and careless of social judgment. Depardieu charms as anti-hero in French tragi-comedy 2010-02-19T22:53:00Z

As Oliver Tostmann, the Wadsworth’s curator of European art, puts it, “The story we tell is a little more idiosyncratic, more eccentric.” Temple of delight 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Lay possessed “strong understanding and great integrity,” but was “singular” and “eccentric.” A radical for our time: Benjamin Lay, the Quaker dwarf abolitionist you didn't learn about in class 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Tall, lanky and blond, Browne was a cerebral and eccentric character with a penchant for red socks – they were easy to match, he explained – and an acerbic wit befitting his grandfather’s cousin, Oscar Wilde. Photographer of iconic burning monk photo dies 2012-08-28T14:24:00Z

White dots also pop from the orderly yet gently eccentric “Share,” a typically mesmerizing composition by Simon Gouverneur, one of two artists of color in the show. In the galleries: Showcasing an artist’s exploration and influence 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Sherlock Holmes, sees Downey Jr. and Law reprise their roles as the eccentric detective and his loyal sidekick Dr. Watson. "Sherlock Holmes" sequel has London premiere 2011-12-08T11:39:07Z

Everyone buys the impersonation; Giovanni’s eccentric speeches inspire colleagues and crowds alike; and, just like that, 50 percent of the film becomes deeply uninteresting. ‘Viva la Libertà,’ a Comedy Starring Toni Servillo 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

“He was known as an eccentric and at times irascible character,” Andrew Stuart said. Mel Stuart, ‘Willy Wonka’ Director, Dies at 83 2012-08-11T03:02:29Z

When she choreographs to classical music, she works so often against and around it that it’s hard to tell why her eccentric, purposeful counterrhythms are musically compelling. Dance Review: ?Wanderer Fantasy,? a Puzzle at Danspace Project 2010-05-21T22:54:00Z

Molly Gray, the eccentric heroine of this endearing locked-room mystery, loves her job cleaning rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel — until the police suspect her of murdering one of the nastier guests. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Carolina’s childhood friend and neighbor, the eccentric inventor Pellegrino Turri, is older by a decade, but the two are bound by their curiosity and quirks. New Books by Ivan Doig, Ayelet Waldman and Lily King 2010-07-14T22:50:00Z

Eating at Ephraim’s, which sits right above the Spree, is like eating in a favorite eccentric aunt’s parlor. In Berlin, the past and present collide on a mother-son trip 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

But inside the front door an eccentric, head-turning entrance hall is now revealed. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

In another slight change in proceedings, last week's audition rounds showed more actual singers and far less emotionally adrift "local eccentrics" chivvied on to be heckled by 4,000 friends. The X Factor: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011-08-26T23:06:00Z

Even if to diffuse the shame you confess, people raise an eyebrow; they’d rather not know about your eccentric, self-gratifying habits. My secret hair pulling 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z

These were gonzo vignettes introducing people whose lifestyles were, as the title insinuated, unusual and/or eccentric: fundamentalist Christian loons, survivalist crackpots, white supremacist dunces. TV OD: Twilight of the Porn Stars 2012-06-08T23:05:09Z

"Yes Please" is at times choppy and self-consciously eccentric. Amy Poehler memoir 'Yes Please' is smart, funny, a little messy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Those who have worked with Storyboard call him eccentric, special, visionary, a genius. Storyboard P: Where Is the Place for a Genius of Street Dance? 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

She plays an eccentric, charming woman who embellishes the truth. Shirley MacLaine still setting her own terms 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

In his review for The Times, Glenn Kenny wrote that the director, Michael Dweck, clearly considers that culture lively and eccentric, “and does a committed job trying to convey that.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Cold War’ and ‘The OA’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

It grew into a tourist landmark and gathering point for Anglophone expatriates, attracting eccentrics, nomads and dreamers. American dean of Paris literary scene dies at 98 2011-12-15T14:10:23Z

There is some discussion of the history of the technique, but the focus is on eccentric characters whose passion keeps the form alive. What’s on TV Tuesday: James Corden in Britain and ‘Hannah Gadsby: Nanette’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

"We had a marvellous time, he was in a world of his own Clive, he was so eccentric," remembered Hudd. Dad's Army star Clive Dunn dies 2012-11-08T09:55:45Z

Some are included just for the sake of introducing the great eccentrics whose seemingly marginal inventions would prove to be prophetic. Books of The Times: Drumbeat to E-Mail: The Medium and the Message 2011-03-06T22:55:16Z

Indeed, eccentric, D.I.Y.-leaning jewelry blew up during the pandemic. A Gen Z Success Story 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Most of what he does involves wearing a Santa suit for the holidays and trying to court an eccentric redhead named Eileen, even though he has never courted anyone. Books of The Times: ‘Perfect: A Novel,’ an Eerie Look at Life Via a Child’s Eyes 2014-01-22T21:56:35Z

They tend to be gathering places for the offbeat and eccentric, and they are repositories of arcane local knowledge. How to find a great cup of coffee in Charleston, S.C. — or wherever you go 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Journalists honed in on the archetype of eccentric genius, recycling the details of his absurdly low posture at the keyboard and the old sawn-off chair that allowed him to maintain it. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z

He begins his query with Diogenes, the eccentric fourth century B.C. philosopher who requested that his dead body be thrown over the city walls to be devoured by beasts. A Matter of Life and Death 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

I’m not particularly eccentric in my approach to organizing my books. Michael Cunningham Thinks Most People Misunderstand ‘Lolita’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

An eccentric, reclusive computer genius works on a mysterious project to discover the meaning of life — or the lack of one. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The new album, recorded with Aaron Dessner of the National, is more adventurous, with more eccentric sonic effects and flourishes of strings and horns. ArtsBeat Blog: Popcast: Jenny Scheinman, Gotye and Sharon Van Etten 2011-12-09T17:32:13Z

“I wear the straight bangs across short bob that only eccentric gallery owners in movies have,” she said. Is Remote Work Making Us Paranoid? 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Perhaps not the best-loved item in the latter-day Disney canon, but this eccentric science-fiction adventure – one of the studio’s later hand-drawn animations – has anarchic energy to burn. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

Defense attorney Robert Datner says his client may be eccentric but committed no crime. Philly man charged with stalking TV actress Erbe 2010-06-23T10:51:00Z

The director of this brisk documentary, Michael Dweck, clearly considers it lively and eccentric, and does a committed job trying to convey that. ‘The Last Race’ Review: Long Island’s Fading Car Craze 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Vargas then suggested he just speak in the accent of his character, eccentric physician Henry Goose. Tom Hanks slips from nice guy rep with a Big-worthy swear 2012-10-19T20:44:00Z

Mr. Cousins pays tribute to the romanticism of commercial cinema and also uses it as a foil for the classicism of directors like Yasujiro Ozu and the radicalism of various rebels, eccentrics and visionaries. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Story of Film: An Odyssey,? by Mark Cousins, at MoMA 2012-01-31T23:43:58Z

The meter, mostly, is a syncopated and eccentric 5/4, though it shifts at whim; the attitude is terse and businesslike, but sisterly. Shawn Mendes and Tainy’s Summer Breeze, and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

The sly, eccentric Italian industrial designer produced biomorphic buildings and interiors across booming postwar Turin, as well as furniture that now sells for millions. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

The expedition grew out of an encounter between Monty and an eccentric Finnish scholar, Valter Juvelius, who claimed he had identified ciphers in the Old Testament that showed where the ark was hidden in Jerusalem. What Happens When Everyone Is Writing the Same Book You Are? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

Artists also construct their own unreal worlds: strange, gorgeous, eccentric, sometimes overwhelming illusions. Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy. Groundbreaking Improv Comic Jonathan Winters Dies 2013-04-12T12:02:30Z

This shaggy, darkly comic and deeply eccentric tale begins as the suicidal Axler takes a startling swan dive off a Broadway stage during a production of "As You Like It." 'The Humbling' is Al Pacino's act all the way 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The story is unremarkable, but its execution zings, as an orange tabby is accidentally abandoned and lands in the eccentric home of an elderly magician. Lost Cat Finds a Home in ‘Thunder and the House of Magic’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Really, though, he’s Bill Murray in a Wes Anderson film, which is to say the ideal grown-up, an embodiment of impish, saturnine charm and eccentric integrity. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

She’s eccentric and odd and not good at being a woman in the 1970s. The enduring tragedy of Christine Chubbuck: “She got headlines for blood and guts, which is what she abhorred” 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

This is, of course, Leo's eccentric, self-financed attempt to swing votes her way for the best supporting actress Oscar. Oscars 2011: Melissa Leo takes the low road to success 2011-02-25T21:00:01Z

“Either that, or the opposite: by depicting aunts as eccentric, we’re exaggerating a quality that we find very important.” Let?s Hear It for Aunthood 2011-09-17T01:51:44Z

“It was joyful and eccentric, wonderfully naïve but also incredibly intelligent — this special intelligence that just saw the best in the world around her.” For Lorna Courtney of ‘& Juliet,’ New York Has Always Been Her Stage 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s an eclectic, eccentric lineup, as it has been since the start. London International Mime Festival: Wordless Physicality That Smashes the Glass Box 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Its rich hues and eccentric partial glimpses of park visitors are playfully zesty. Celebrating William Cumming and Jacob Lawrence at Woodside/Braseth Gallery 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

But the eccentric and single socialite Mame Dennis, with her colorful wardrobe and ever-changing décors, best encapsulates the aura of self-sufficiency we like to assign to the role. Let?s Hear It for Aunthood 2011-09-17T01:51:44Z

So Ross began collaborating with animators at his New York City studio to devise computer-generated waves with “movement as eccentric as I remember it in nature,” he explains. Photographer Clifford Ross Gets The Spotlight This Summer 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

“This rambling, anarchic tale is gratifyingly fresh and eccentric,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in March. Video: A Tragic Actress?s Twilight, Burning, Not Dimming 2011-07-17T01:23:02Z

Grandma’s Paintings My grandma was an amazing, prolific artist and a spiritual, eccentric woman. Zoey Deutch Enjoys ‘The Joy of Cooking’ and the Occasional Tracksuit 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

English eccentrics are valued and cherished, immune from the suffocation of standardisation. Phonics speaks to children's knack for nonsense 2012-11-19T13:31:18Z

But both are self-confident eccentrics in obscure American communities, determined to uncover the truth about a murder. Frances McDormand: two defining roles, two decades apart 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z

Their unkempt attire, wild-eyed aspect, tattoo-like markings and eccentric haircuts provoke a shiver of recognition. The Eagle bears the standard Scottish stereotype 2011-03-28T09:55:28Z

As eccentric as it is accessible, "1000 Forms of Fear" balances booming beats and Top 40-tooled melodies with idiosyncratic textures and vocals that reveal appealing imperfections. Sia promotes '1000 Forms of Fear' without facing the cameras 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Ulbricht fits the archetype of the eccentric tech wizard, including pushing his body to extremes for intellectual purposes, like choosing to take cold showers for a month to test his resilience. How the Dark Web’s Dread Pirate Roberts Went Down 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Audience members watch as Sagan encounters eccentric characters representing the atmosphere and the hydrosphere, as well as a man trying to find a way to escape the planet through space travel. Lend Us Your Ears, and Don’t Forget Your Farm Boots 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Not only is it a wonderful book, I am reminded of our wonderfully eccentric time together every time I glance at the spine. Jane Green: By the Book 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Here the eccentric genius explains all, showing lucky attendees his progress with the development. The Gamecity Festival: the ten events you must not miss! 2010-10-25T11:42:00Z

Tellingly, the joyfully eccentric home videos Murphy made during lockdown this past spring stood out from the earnest messages of hope and solidarity that flooded YouTube. Róisín Murphy, a Disco Queen Ruling Her Own Galaxy 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

The themes of mortality, memory and grief suffuse a narrative that revolves around a troupe of eccentric players. Review | Eugene Lim’s ‘Search History’ is a pulpish adventure interwoven with meditative moments 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Malkovich is perfectly suited to pull off this fearsome/eccentric/possibly psychopathic character, so much so that you miss him whenever he’s not around. John Malkovich Plays a Pirate in NBC’s ‘Crossbones’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The film’s supposed musings and meanderings are channelled and narrow yet unfocussed, lacking both a true sense of complexity and freedom and the pointed precision of dialogue in classic Hollywood’s eccentric offshoots. “Destination Wedding,” Reviewed: Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves Suffer Through One of the Worst Sex Scenes in Recent Memory 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Bird People” is neither; it’s delightful, and delightfully eccentric. Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Enlivens Cannes 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Yes, in the sense that as early as 1945 this 1930s world, inhabited by eccentric aristocrats such as the outrageous Uncle Matthew and die-hard communists like Linda's second husband Christian, had vanished forever. Teen book club: Lydia Syson's top 10 historical novels 2012-11-29T16:39:14Z

After making the recordings, Mr. Savory, who had an eccentric, secretive streak, zealously guarded access to his collection, allowing only a few select tracks by his friend Benny Goodman to be released commercially. National Jazz Museum Acquires Savory Collection 2010-08-16T19:08:00Z

They inspired four to five generations of militantly eccentric art fans. George Kuchar, Underground Filmmaker, Dies at 69 2011-09-08T04:51:32Z

The Vienna-born Gulda, one of the 20th century's greatest pianists, was so determined to smash musical boundaries as a virtuoso and composer, he was labeled an eccentric. Symphony season breaks boundaries 2011-09-15T01:09:42Z

Located in Porto, a Portuguese city known as a virtual museum of Art Deco storefronts, this veritable shrine to bound print tops all other eccentric remnants of fin de siècle design. Mellow Lello: Porto's Oasis of Bookish Tranquillity 2011-11-17T06:15:00Z

The film's promotional material said it described her evolution from a "typical suburban housewife" to "a beloved and eccentric creature of New York nightlife." Woman, 95, known for N.Y.C. night life, dies at fashion show 2012-02-17T14:28:27Z

It’s a big deal for someone like me, who grew up the eccentric in the family, crocheting on the couch at Thanksgiving.” On Location: B.D. Wong Tames His Inner Hoarder 2012-09-05T22:37:29Z

Our landlady, Bonnie, was a very eccentric older lady with a cat and a lovely house with a two-bedroom loft. ‘Anyone else would have kicked him out’: celebrity flatmates reveal all 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Multicultural, devotional and deeply eccentric, they suggest that Mr. Kagoshima is still discovering new outlets for his wild imagination. E’wao Kagoshima 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

He is befriended by eccentric characters who appear and disappear at will, and have tasks for him that are never fully explained. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 2011-08-19T21:55:08Z

Spall spent years with Leigh researching Turner to fully embody the artist - a man Spall describes as an "eccentric genius". Timothy Spall: How I became Turner 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

She being an eccentric novelist obsessed by tales of sociopaths and murder, and he being a stranger with possibly shady intentions, tension builds fast in the weapon-filled room where the show is set. Behind the Poster: 'Switzerland' 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

He was both one of the most accessible and most eccentric of the filmmakers associated with the French New Wave. 'Transcendence'? Not in this Johnny Depp sci-fi thriller 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

Dad meets an eccentric scientist who presents Jeffy with what’s described as a “key to everything,” holding the ability to time jump among among parallel universes. At book 78 and counting, Dean Koontz has no drought of ideas 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Mac enclosed everything in an eccentric bubble that not only welcomed but celebrated difference. Taylor Mac offers a glorious sneak peek of his '24-Decade History of Popular Music' at Royce Hall 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

The first published collection of her poems, from 1890, cleaned up her eccentric punctuation and spelling, cut stanzas and created titles, presenting her as a more conventional poet than she was. A Very Modern Emily Dickinson (Twerking Included) 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

The characters, too, are distinctive: six eccentrics all up in one another’s business. Review: Six Dancing Eccentrics in Search of Some Seriousness 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

“The Glass Castle,” which spent more than 335 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, details Walls’ poor and dysfunctional upbringing as she is raised by an eccentric artist mother and alcoholic father. Lawrence First-Time Producer with ‘Glass Castle’ 2013-11-12T16:03:09Z

Fiction is full of endearing eccentric aunts, though sometimes, as in Graham Greene's Travels with My Aunt, these aunts are not what they seem. David McKie's top 10 eccentrics in literature 2011-03-02T11:31:07Z

The eccentric folly and glory of Miss Helen’s house isn’t all that evident here. | 'The Road to Mecca' : ?Road to Mecca? at American Airlines Theater - Review 2012-01-18T03:01:07Z

“The Big Short,” which was based on real-life figures, turned its financiers into a band of outlandish eccentrics. Seduced by Ayad Akhtar's 'Junk,' the new play that picks apart the Wall Street playbook 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

It had sympathetic leads, antagonists, buffoons, and eccentrics, but it was also willing to flesh out and dimensionalize its whole ensemble. Six Ways The Office Mattered 2013-05-16T09:45:58Z

She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too. Carol Vorderman: My family values 2011-08-19T23:05:51Z

What could be described as a story about gaslighting is complicated by the liberal use of eccentric camera perspectives that seem less aligned with expressing Molly’s distress than with pushing suspense. ‘Knocking’ Review: Domestic Disturbances 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

A fascinating eccentric with an unusual dress sense, he was prone to Lee "Scratch" Perry-style flights of conversational fancy. Remembering Rammellzee, a hip-hop pioneer 2010-07-01T15:52:00Z

On “The Mars Volta,” out Sept. 16, the group — long known for its cryptic, polysyllabic lyrics and extended, transmogrifying song structures — has moved in its own eccentric ways toward the openness and concision of pop. The Mars Volta Returns With a Swerve: Its Own Version of Pop 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Told in fragmented, strobe-lighted chapters that depict an assortment of misfits, outsiders and eccentrics, the novel sometimes feels like the TV show “The Office” as rewritten with a magnifying glass by Nicholson Baker. Books of The Times: Maximized Revenue, Minimized Existence 2011-03-31T21:14:33Z

Well, that's when we sometimes lapse into the eccentric sexual interest who only exists to teach a man about himself, known now in pop culture parlance as the "manic pixie dream girl." The most authentic part of "Happiest Season" is Jane, who conquers the "quirky woman" trope 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Just four years later she's a different broadcaster: relaxed, warm, enthusiastic, eccentric. Rewind radio: Sony awards; The Danny Baker Show; PM; Cerys on 6 – review 2013-05-18T17:00:03Z

And Rogue, based in Newport, is equally eccentric. Toast Portlandia's 5th Season With This Weird Oregon Vodka 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Back then, Parr indulged his love for vernacular and found photography, and his passion for new, often eccentric, talent as well as great photographers he felt had been overlooked. Brighton Photo Biennial 2010-10-01T08:52:00Z

Rather than become a new Michael Scott figure, the eccentric, weirdly charismatic California was employed as a kind of catalyst to unsettle and shake up the characters around him. Help Wanted: Now James Spader Leaving The Office 2012-02-28T14:39:12Z

It’s not as rarefied, but people thought it was in its own way as eccentric a dance form to put on screen. ‘Break Pointe,’ a CW Reality Show About Ballet West Dancers 2012-05-29T22:07:57Z

Mr. Long and Ms. Ebersole first started working together on an eccentric play called “Gossip” in the mid-1970s, when they were both starting their careers. Christine Ebersole Makes an Entrance Fit for the Tonys 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

The most complimentary word for it that reviewers came up with was "eccentric"; "loathsome" and "facetious" figured, too. Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life as it Is Lived by Roger Lewis 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

But don’t be fooled: Mr. Praley has a genuinely eccentric inventive mind that in these modest shorts has created a very funny world. Funny, Kooky and Short on the Net 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The #BestNYAccent challenge was initiated by Nicolas Heller, a director of short films and a sort of unofficial liaison to New York City’s ample pool of eccentrics. How Does a New Yawker Tawk? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Such eccentrics are key to the gonzo tone of “Justified,” which is based on stories by the crime laureate Elmore Leonard. R.V.s and Stolen Kidneys: Life on the Fringes in ‘Justified’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

He inhabits his costumes — no matter how eccentric — with élan. Perspective | Peloton’s Cody Rigsby is powerfully predictable on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

He’s the slob with the red stapler, the eccentric billionaire, the blind Mississippi D.J. ‘Barry’ Star Stephen Root Went From ‘That Guy’ to Emmy Nominee 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

He was manic, eccentric, too smart — or too arrogant — to suffer the niceties of Congress. This Hill staffer (maybe) saved the free world. But all he wants is a career in theater. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

On TV, a second series – and a transfer to Channel 4 – for sketch duo Cardinal Burns, and a first series for Matt Berry's pilot Toast of London, about an eccentric actor. Alexander Armstrong hits back at 'tribal aversion' to posh comics 2013-05-14T15:04:06Z

The studio evidently recognized this, promoting “Stranger” for its “eccentric camera work” and “light-and-shadow effects.” Presto! Pulp and Poetry: ‘Chandu the Magician’ and ‘Stranger on the Third Floor’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

It would be wrong to dismiss Miller as an eccentric. The amazing weather man of the Lake District 2012-06-27T13:00:00Z

But all eyes were on Taylor’s shirt, which was an eccentric affair covered in scantily clad women. Internet Mob Justice Isn't Justice At All 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

This year, London celebrates 150 years of Blue Plaques: these tiny, ceramic homages to London’s greatest and most eccentric — and on rare occasion, most achingly virtuous — city dwellers. In London, Blue Plaques Mark the Noted and Notorious 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Back in the 1980s, it was known that Phoenix had an eccentric childhood, but, in retrospect, it feels as if few appreciated just how extraordinary it was. The untold story of lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his death 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Like so many of the eccentrics I met in Tangier, he admires extremes — too many paintings, too many beautiful tiles, too many stories about people who are too much. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

“Real Life” was actually so eccentric that some people weren’t ready for it. Albert Brooks fans, rejoice! His genius films are coming to Netflix — and they feel more relevant than ever 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Outsider art covers the outpourings of the untrained, the eccentric, the criminal and the crazed. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z

Yet what has been consistent is that Cage himself has been seen as one of Hollywood’s last eccentrics. Nicolas Cage: ‘If I don’t have a job to do, I can be very self-destructive’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

The human element to the story survives to the present; Mosley meets some interesting and eccentric characters in his search for answers. The Story of Science 2010-04-28T07:00:00Z

Georgie asks in a line that Parker, an expert in alluring eccentrics, might consider putting on her acting résumé. Love, trickery and the drama of uncertainty: It's 'Heisenberg' at the Taper 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Bittersweet, heartfelt and rendered in an eccentric, expressive style, the movie seems poised to draw dog-loving moviegoers like beagles to bacon. Film: Computer Animation, Made by Hand 2010-08-29T02:23:00Z

Betty grows up instead with her mother, her white father and a charmingly eccentric, “narratively endowed” extended family of Palestinian Americans. The Quest for Identity and Independence 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

She keeps company with local eccentrics from across the social spectrum, and begins to enjoy the movement of her body; her transformation begins when she learns to jump rope. The Secret Garden's hidden depths 2011-08-05T11:42:29Z

“I thought he was being super idiosyncratic, like this was your kooky, eccentric uncle.” Uma Thurman breaks silence on Harvey Weinstein 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

These evocations of global disaster are part of the background: atmospheric touches in an eccentric and moving portrait of souls in extremis. Movie Review: ?4:44 Last Day on Earth,? With Willem Dafoe 2012-03-22T22:34:19Z

Foreign energy companies regularly court the country and its eccentric president in the hope of getting access to its gas reserves, estimated to be the world's forth largest. Jennifer Lopez sparks controversy with show for Turkmenistan president 2013-06-30T15:17:54Z

Above all, "Mammuth" is a celebration of surrealism and eccentricity -- and is itself eccentric, intriguing reviewers. Depardieu charms as anti-hero in French tragi-comedy 2010-02-19T22:53:00Z

They're a bit late to be providing an alternative to landfill homogeneity, but still, full marks for trying – and your patience will be tried if you're generally averse to such wilfully eccentric types. New band of the day – La Shark (No 1,399) 2012-11-20T16:34:47Z

Directed by Matt Bassett, “The Typographer’s Dream” features three eccentric experts discoursing on the wonders, and occasionally the frustrations, of their chosen disciplines. A lesson in geography, typography and stenography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Her spidery fingers splayed and wiggled as she moved along an eccentric path that covered every bit of the stage. Dance Review: Ruth Zaporah at Danspace Project - Review 2011-10-31T22:24:02Z

And at least one of Charles’s eccentric hobbies—fighting climate change—is looking more reasonable by the minute. Can “The Crown” Make Us Crush on Prince Charles? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Don Van Vliet, the eccentric 1960s rocker who was known as Captain Beefheart during his days of protean musical creativity and who found greater financial success later in life as a painter, died Friday. Don Van Vliet, ?Captain Beefheart,? Dies at 69 2010-12-18T00:00:21Z

He was always off someplace far-flung — the Congo! the moon! — in the company of scientists and eccentric strangers. What books inspired Richard Russo, Harlan Coben, Lauren Groff and others 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Page was particularly predisposed to lending a hand, having previously worked in the studio with Proby in 1964 on the eccentric singer’s Number Three U.K. hit “Hold Me.” How Led Zeppelin came to be 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

The result was English eccentric with off-key pieces woven, metaphorically or literally, into Burberry’s style. Special Report: Fashion: In the Money! 2011-06-19T12:10:33Z

His star attractions turn into a kind of chorus of eccentrics, with minimal back stories. Review: In ‘The Greatest Showman,’ a P.T. Barnum Smaller Than Life 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

For all its absurdities, including a Puck-like goblin who provides a strangely gratuitous love potion, the play has an eccentric charm. St John's Night – review 2012-07-15T17:29:01Z

In Sousa’s “National Game,” of 1925, performed by the combined forces under Mr. Tovey, two baseball bats were struck together repeatedly as an eccentric, topical wood block. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-07-02T20:37:00Z

Autobiography features large this year, with Rick Nodine's Dead Gig offering a deliciously eccentric riff on his teenage infatuation with the Grateful Dead. The Place prize – review 2013-04-23T17:58:59Z

You can buy beer for the chefs at Tojo’s, the eccentric and awesome sushi restaurant in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hey, Mr. Critic: City Foodie Tours for Teenagers and Adults Alike 2011-03-24T16:02:56Z

Hiding out after hours he finds a community of eccentric hermits who evade security by pretending to be mannequins. ?60s Sondheim TV Show Is Now on (Legal) DVD 2010-10-24T21:42:00Z

His image as an eccentric inventor informed Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as Iron Man, and in 2010, he made a cameo in “Iron Man 2.” How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

Capote’s story is one of fierce talent, personal bravery, poor professional ethics, eccentric celebrity, and eventual addiction and dissolution. ‘The Capote Tapes’ Review: New Narratives and Unanswered Prayers 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Of all the secrets that emerge late in this touching, eccentric book, that is the most confounding one of all. Books of The Times: ‘Perfect: A Novel,’ an Eerie Look at Life Via a Child’s Eyes 2014-01-22T21:56:35Z

This is suggested by two imposingly eccentric nudes from 1939 and 1945 and, best of all, a crouching woman from 1940 very much like one of Degas’s bathers but with distended arms. Critic’s Notebook: The Effort to Resurrect the Sculptor Germaine Richier 2014-03-20T21:41:29Z

Musée Edith Piaf, for example, is in an eccentric little Belleville apartment, filled with the singer’s belongings, including letters, her black dresses, books and records, which play softly in the background. ‘Paris is where I learned, like Hemingway, to be poor and happy’ 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Her beloved friends and eccentric village neighbors are the faces of an ordinary day in the most wholesome, funniest version of our lives. Plot Twist: Your Big Secret Crush Is Also Your Housemate 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

His approach to paintings is by no means eccentric, but it is definitely unusual. Review | Hisham Matar follows his Pulitzer-winning ‘The Return’ with a meditation on art amid mourning 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

He enjoys relating the story of the eccentric Lord Grimthorpe, whose last words were reportedly, “We are low on marmalade.” Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z

At a time when many novels rely on intricate plots or eccentric narrative voices, “Something Wild” eschews literary pyrotechnics and relies instead on the power of truth. Review | In Hanna Halperin’s ‘Something Wild,’ sisters try to protect their mother from domestic violence 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

She honed her elegant verbal wit and fused it with the nightmare logic that makes “Swamplandia!” such an eccentric yet revelatory family story. Books of The Times: In Florida Slough With the Gators and Family Ghosts 2011-02-16T23:30:12Z

“Northern Exposure” was a television sitcom about whimsically eccentric people in Alaska. Television Review: ‘Fargo,’ a TV Series Riffing on the Film, Begins on FX 2014-04-14T21:28:35Z

A realistic painter of animals, she became the richest and most famous female artist of 19th-century France, burnishing her reputation with savvy self-promotion and an eccentric personal life. Rich, Famous and Then Forgotten: The Art of Rosa Bonheur 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

But Mamet isn’t copping a plea for the eccentric artist. Phil Spector’s Greatest Hit 2013-03-21T09:45:43Z

I’m really enjoying seeing the weird, eccentric qualities of blackness being explored. Y’lan Noel on ‘Insecure,’ ‘The First Purge’ and Black Masculinity Onscreen 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

But the story is engaging, the prose precise, the characters amusing, and the overall effect one of eccentric charm. Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z

And because I'm those things, I attract eccentrics. Chloe Sevigny 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z

Momofuku Ko, both in the main dining room and the eccentric little bar next door, almost vibrates with ambition and creativity. Why David Chang Matters 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

The life of Glenn Gould, the eccentric and brilliant Canadian pianist who precipitously retired from the concert hall at 31, has been documented extensively. 'Genius Within': A personal view of eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould 2010-10-14T20:41:00Z

A beekeeper recounts his experience moving from novice to master, providing ample advice and presenting the eccentrics, oddballs and, as our reviewer, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, put it, “flagrantly self-promoting windbags” he encounters along the way. New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Melancholy profiles of the eccentric denizens of a now-vanished New York. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

Bourne said one of the most interesting things they learned is that in the 1940s, dance troupes were a lot more eccentric, and less concerned with perfect technique. Matthew Bourne and the U.S. premiere of 'The Red Shoes': 'Art is important, it’s worth fighting for' 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

But never mind — this series, like the annual Pushcart Prizes, applauds writers who operate outside the glare of the glossies, and it yields some eccentric gems in the rough. ArtsBeat: Anthologies That (Mostly) Stand the Test of Time 2013-05-17T15:41:49Z

While eccentric personalities tend to make for good reality TV, Ulrich said he is on the lookout for talent more than anything. New guy on 'Glee' strikes a Chord with auditioners 2010-12-20T06:00:00Z

In February, the eccentric, mustachioed Dior designer went on a drunken, abusive tear at a fellow patron in a Parisian restaurant, slurring about, among other things, her "dirty Jew face." The new high price of mouthing off 2011-06-21T20:11:00Z

Diane had a talent for friendship, and she maintained long-term connections with all sorts of people — eccentrics in rooming houses, freaks in sideshows, socialites on Park Avenue. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Now she lives alone and gardens in an eccentric hat. TV review: Wonderland ? High Society Brides 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

And it works, despite, or more likely because of, all the mania and eccentric input. New band of the day – Big Black Delta (No 1,332) 2012-08-16T15:21:42Z

Created with Paul Butler from Isle-of-Wight eccentrics the Bees, its lovely string arrangements provide a tasteful but undeniably pleasant cushion for his bruised heart. This week's new live music 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

A director known for “making likable and highly commercial movies about weirdos, eccentrics and outsiders,” in our reviewer Dave Itzkoff’s words, explores why he “gravitates to these kinds of characters.” New in Paperback: ‘The Devil You Know’ and ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Made for $750,000, the film, which centered on an eccentric supermarket clerk who thinks he's solved the riddle of time travel, earned glowing reviews from critics. 'Jurassic World' is Trevorrow Land 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The more eccentric the destination, the more amusing is the language. Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z

I follow “Car Talk” on Facebook, where they post pictures of eccentric cars sent in by fans. Saturday Mornings with Click and Clack 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, Christopher Lloyd turns up as a wild-eyed eccentric who embodies an awful lot of senior-citizen stereotypes. Review: ‘Going in Style’ Proves Crime Has No Age Limit 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Writers tend to deploy words like kooky, eccentric and so forth when describing her style, when, mostly, I think, they mean “does not compute.” Review: In ‘Iris,’ Albert Maysles Explores Iris Apfel’s Style 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Both the real and the TV town are populated by Alaska characters who would be considered eccentric elsewhere. A D.I.Y. Trip Through Alaska’s Inside Passage 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

His death, after a long period of self-enforced seclusion, comes at a time when it is difficult to imagine anyone as eccentric – and as eccentrically gifted – finding a place in contemporary pop culture. Captain Beefheart obituary: rock's father of invention 2010-12-19T00:08:01Z

The stage and screen veteran will play an eccentric grandfather in You Can't Take It With You, a comedy by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1937. James Earl Jones returns to Broadway 2014-04-25T08:25:08Z

And suddenly the philosopher's bright ideas, his eternal questions, his eccentric ways, started to jar. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z

But handled with care, as it has been in this Roundabout Theater Company production, this winsome comedy about a lovable eccentric can cast a satisfying spell. Theater Review: ‘Harvey,’ With Jim Parsons, at Studio 54 2012-06-15T02:17:16Z

Her parents, both Roman Catholic, sent her to convent schools, from which she was expelled for eccentric behavior. Leonora Carrington Is Dead at 94; Artist and Author of Surrealist Work 2011-05-27T03:30:06Z

It overlooks the faults and misbehavior of its eccentric characters to express a lighthearted optimism that doesn’t feel forced or manipulative. ‘Chinese Puzzle,’ a Comedy Directed by Cedric Klapisch 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

When I think about British aristocracy, I think of people like him — eccentrics with a noble commitment to English high culture and all sorts of interesting stuff in their back closet. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Directed and co-written with his wife, Elle Key, “The History of Sketch Comedy” is far more eccentric, funny and personal than an Intro to Comedy class, although it is that, too. On Keegan-Michael Key’s Podcast, a Provocative Case for Sketch Comedy 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Basics This 30-room boutique hotel, which was the Yi House Hotel until the Grace Hotels Group bought it and reopened it in late 2011, embodies both eccentric and luxe well. Check In: A Boutique Retreat in Beijing’s 798 Art District 2013-01-30T17:34:40Z

All while supporting her eccentric husband's state assembly run, Sheila sets out to create a revolutionary business at a time of sweeping technological shifts — including the rise of the now defunct videotape. In Apple TV's trailer for new series “Physical,” “Desperate Housewives” meets ‘80s nostalgia 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Skating along the edge of heartbreak last year was “Obselidia,” an eccentric romance directed by Diane Bell, who’s sanguine about why she didn’t get a traditional distribution deal. Sundance Offer New Video Streaming for Films 2012-01-04T18:01:42Z

My eccentric father had a sign made for the roof that read, “Burger Palace: More than 2 Dozen Sold.” See the Real Live Man Who Grew Up in a Carnival 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Carol Muske-Dukes has this lovely appreciation: “Lucie's friends all knew that she lived a life fueled both by eccentric passion and an absolute unrelenting committed rigor,” she writes. Books newsletter: Tayari Jones, Jesse Ball, Lucie Brock-Broido and more in books 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

An inspired prohibition mob thriller that has been alchemised into a Coen film with an elegant and eccentric comic perspective. The Coen brothers’ films – ranked! 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Fairhope’s blend of natural beauty and eccentric ambition continued to attract artists, writers and intellectuals. A Southern Town That’s Been Holding On to Its Charm, for More Than a Century 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

A literary prospector, he unearths curious and eccentric novels, delves into the careers of half-forgotten authors, and spends holidays making serendipitous discoveries in out-of-the-way provincial bookshops. Review | These two books will lead you down a rabbit hole to unexpected literary delights 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

My job, it’s a strange job, it’s an eccentric line of work. The Boss on Broadway: Bruce Springsteen on His ‘First Real Job’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

“I was always led to believe that his grandfather or uncle was eccentric and often climbed to the roof to be alone,” Goodman says of Chagall. Marc Chagall: The French painter who inspired the title ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

As part of Spill Festival, Kings of England will be documenting the life of eccentric physicist Paul Dirac. Stage chemistry: the marriage of science and theatre is going strong 2011-03-09T14:13:20Z

But the fondest desire of British crime writers is to locate some wildly eccentric person, preferably of noble blood, caught in some mortifying situation. New True-Crime Books for Fall 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

An observational documentary, it is populated by extroverts and eccentrics. TV highlights 25/06/2013 2013-06-25T06:00:03Z

Gold or silver animal jewelry including necklaces and brooches added an eccentric touch to some outfits. Animal mascots take to the catwalk for Stella McCartney show 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

During rehearsals, I will admit to spending what now seems like an eccentric amount of time trying to determine which of the Whiffs are gay. Whiffenpoofs Are Singing for Their Supper 2013-01-12T00:10:26Z

Cat’s house turns out to be a sprawling estate tucked in Sonoma and, as her boutique spree suggested, she is wealthy, a touch eccentric and has found a new distraction in Lindsay. ‘Pretty Problems’ Review: A Getaway Goes Quirky 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of Michael Tully’s “Septien” is a sports hustler who returns to his backwoods family homestead 18 years after disappearing and reunites with his two eccentric, borderline-crazy brothers. The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

"Mincemeat" features some of the same characters, eccentric British intelligence operatives with exceedingly vivid imaginations. Great writers of spy fiction have often been spies themselves 2010-05-21T20:12:00Z

"He was one of our great true eccentrics and such a big part of my life! Wow. Hard to believe!" Singer Pete Burns dies of heart attack at age 57 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Those aunts are an eccentric bunch, offering quirky memories of Claire’s mother and wry remarks about life. Theater Review: ‘I Am a Tree,’ Dulcy Rogers’s Solo Show at St. Clement’s 2012-06-10T21:26:22Z

In jean shorts and tights, she inched stand-up closer to the eccentric solo show, where a sharply honed point of view mattered more than accessible setups and hard punch lines. Janeane Garofalo Never Sold Out. What a Relief. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

At a news conference Friday, the famously eccentric singer was perched on a large purple and silver couch and sported the hairstyle in the white, orange and green of the Indian flag. Lady Gaga to perform at Indian Formula One event 2011-10-28T11:44:10Z

The actor bought the rights and convinced a character nearly as eccentric as Thompson to adapt and direct it. Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary: Yo Ho Huh? 2011-10-27T02:55:09Z

The eccentric ambience, inside and out, was perfect for a Surrealist hanging out with his creative playmate and muse. House calls: Inside the homes of Europe’s top artists 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

During this suspenseful voyage, a middle-aged British spy posing as Miss Froy, an eccentric governess, and carrying the film's MacGuffin, is abducted by foreign agents, and her disappearance is covered up. My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z

And the remixed songs, retaining lead vocals in hollowed-out surroundings, insist on their eccentric humanity: stubborn country survivors in an urban habitat. Playlist: From Soft, Feathery Vocals to Locomotive Sax 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z

Tuxedo Cat has a non-stop schedule of eccentric shows – 500 over the course of the fringe – ranging from performance artist Le Foulard to a naked cabaret where both punters and performers are unclothed. Combing the Adelaide festival Fringe 2013-03-13T05:35:10Z

The actor, who shot to fame soon after the film, and also as Anne Hathaway’s eccentric best friend in The Princess Diaries and its sequel, has often found herself reduced to those labels. Welcome to the Dollhouse's Heather Matarazzo on rejection, suicide and ayahuasca 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

The movement grows more eccentric: arm-swinging walks in place, some oddball elbow wiggles. Love, death yield mild results from Mark Morris Dance Group 2014-02-15T17:36:00Z

Cumberbatch gives an unselfconscious performance here, which is why some folks find his eccentric nature to be admirable and inspiring. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

It boasts a fine performance from Thompson, who starts the movie in eccentric groove like a prickly version of Joyce Grenfell's Miss Gossage, but slowly and subtly reveals her character's vulnerabilities and complexities. Saving Mr Banks: the critics' view 2013-10-21T10:26:27Z

It grew sillier and more hectic, its characters more stridently eccentric. Cross Cuts: The Hard Work in ‘Before Midnight,’ Amour’ and Other Films and Shows 2013-06-19T15:15:49Z

In the second season of this French crime series, Tomer Sisley returns as the gifted but eccentric forensic pathologist Raphaël Balthazar. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Better Call Saul’ and ‘The Plot Against America’ 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

All of them, however, are infused with an idiosyncratic tone and worldview — fiercely moral though sometimes cruel and filled with poetry, eccentric characters and a reassuring sense of community. You won’t want Louise Penny’s latest to end 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

No leaves have emerged, so you can see its eccentric shape. ‘It’s like eating sunshine’: Going plum crazy for a Japanese tree’s juicy fruit 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

True to their fun and eccentric form, the July release party for their latest album, Fantasy Footwork, saw them play inside a giant paper mâché igloo that they made themselves. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z

It was the story of a group of eccentric, impassioned students who studied ancient Greek and of a Dionysian ritual gone awry. Our school shooting 2012-08-20T01:00:00Z

Vida was fun, and wickedly eccentric, and unlike some of my mom’s other friends, not disposed to climb into my business. The day Vida Wayne vanished, wearing a quarter-million dollars in jewels 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The seemingly endless 2016 primary election has already become a hallmark one for American comedians thanks to the most eccentric array of presidential candidates that many of them have ever seen. Not all comedians are tickled by Trump: He’s “in the news and that’s our job, but personally, to me? It’s nothing but scary” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Mannequins dressed in eccentric garb and glossy floor panels lead viewers up a staircase and into a gallery space, where more works fill both the walls and the floor. 15 Art Shows Not to Miss 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Sharon Stone swans onscreen as an eccentric heiress with a vengeance in her heart and an elegantly clothed monkey perched on her shoulder. Review: ‘Ratched’ Flies Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest and Into the Mire 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

An eccentric, sequined menagerie of snakes, tigers, butterflies, dragons and bees ran riot down sleeves, up chests and across shoulder blades, while the sound of harps hung heavy in the air. The Gucci Resort Renaissance 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Of course, like all Pixar movies, it’s also about eccentric characters going on an unlikely adventure. What Parents Can Learn From Inside Out 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

But Verbinski's film, stretching hard to both reinvent an out-of-date brand and breathe new life in the Western with a desperate onslaught of bloated set pieces, is a poor locomotive for Depp's eccentric theatrics. Review: 'The Lone Ranger' is a runaway train 2013-07-01T22:48:21Z

It’s an odd little collection, perfect for stuffing the stockings of your eccentric relatives. Jeanette Winterson’s 12 Christmas stories are a magical holiday treat 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Cuckor's output of the past several decades initially looks like the obsessive video diaries of an eccentric outsider artist. Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life 2010-06-15T11:57:00Z

When my wife was eight months pregnant, we lived in a one-bedroom apartment on a noisy street with an eccentric upstairs neighbour, Keef. One Tree Hill and me: the true cost of renting your home to a hit TV show 2012-07-27T22:00:46Z

More profound connections between them might include a shared relish for subverting formulae, eclectic knowledge, eccentric humour and key roles in the cutting-edge groups of their time. Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – April 2013-04-19T09:33:10Z

The diner’s tall vanilla layer cake is plastered with “sprinkles” that are as long and thin as a pretzel stick, giving it an eccentric, shaggy quality that clearly does not come from a box. The Funfetti Explosion 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

But many of these eccentric shots in the wilderness and determined, give-their-all one-offs sound astonishingly vital. Box sets 2011, from Beach Boys to U2 2011-12-06T05:45:00Z

The Daniels’ command of modern cinematic tropes is encyclopedic, and also eccentric. ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Review: It’s Messy, and Glorious 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Still, many Britons are fond of him, for if the English, as Self claims, like their mediocrities, they absolutely adore their eccentrics. George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

It’s one of the most eccentric tributes ever to the wonderful, the harrowing survival of art. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

He was deeply affected when Isabella Blow, the eccentric stylist who discovered and championed him, committed suicide in 2007, and he was said to be devastated by the death of his mother on Feb. 2. 2010-02-11T19:32:00Z

Marfa is an eccentric and remarkable mix of artists and cowboys. Marfa Road Trip: Thelma and Louise, With a Happier Ending 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

Famous for creating the Wall of Sound production technique in the 1960s, music mogul Spector was known for his eccentric personality and trademark wigs. Midler 'to star in Spector movie' 2011-05-24T09:55:49Z

It looks as if some eccentric, globe-trotting English lord is behind Ginger & Kafe restaurant. 36 Hours in Chiang Mai 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

But she is no wild and eccentric pop star. 2010-01-07T23:59:00Z

These sorts of performers are usually not personally eccentric, perhaps because nothing has made them so. Where does all the best comedy come from? Death and war 2012-07-06T21:30:01Z

His books were arranged by category — magic, circus, eccentric characters — and his file drawers were labeled, which made it easier, say, to find that handbill for “Prof. William Fricke’s Original Imperial Flea Circus.” The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

She writes of someone, “His appearance was a little eccentric: a large specimen of a spider was stuck to his forehead.” Edan Lepucki’s ‘California,’ Alberto Moravia’s ‘Agostino,’ and More 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Our guide for our fossil hunt that day was Chris Pamplin, recommended to me by my sister-in-law, who described him only as “an eccentric guru who knows where all the best fossils are.” Searching for Dinosaurs in a Seaside English Town 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

They hang around on the walkways and stairwells and mock the eccentric woman who insists on sunbathing topless by the pool in whose cleanliness Bobby takes a considerable professional pride. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 2 The Florida Project 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

She eventually gravitated to Andy Warhol and his Factory entourage of eccentric artists and performers. Anita Pallenberg, Actress and Muse of Rolling Stones, Dies at 73 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

I haven’t read much of his stuff, but he seems like he was a wonderful character, like a British eccentric.It reminds me of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City. | A Dual Review of What’s New, Starring Raymond Pettibon and Iris Apfel 2014-05-06T19:05:44Z

People tend to assume that eccentric means weird and wacky. David McKie's top 10 eccentrics in literature 2011-03-02T11:31:07Z

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — Artists attuned to the supernatural, paranormal and occult have sometimes been dismissed as eccentric visionaries, but the art world is increasingly receptive to their channelings. For Karla Knight, Paranormal Is Normal 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

What Nashville discovered in Mr. McAnally was a songwriter of unusual versatility, with a skill for enlivening commercial material with eccentric flourishes. Out and Riding High in Nashville 2013-05-24T12:00:31Z

He’s like Alice in Wonderland: a sane mind in a world of lunatics and schemers and eccentrics. Tintin 101: What You Need to Know Before You See the Movie 2011-12-21T09:58:24Z

Feeling Right at Home on the Fringe The Outsider Art Fair, a wonderfully eccentric jewel in the crown of New York art fairs, has a renewed radiance. Art Review: Outsider Art Fair Opens at 548 West 22nd Street 2013-01-31T23:02:48Z

The actor and rapper have decided to legalize their dramatically eccentric coupling, according to Instagram videos that each posted Wednesday. Machine Gun Kelly takes knee under tree, Megan Fox says yes 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

In all these shows, the offices are all staffed by eccentric oddballs who want to do literally anything other than their day job, yet somehow they almost never get fired. Forking hell! Is The Good Place the ultimate TV show for our times? 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

And now that we have, The Killing and other European crime dramas have started to feel like a perversely English occupation – slightly eccentric, but pursued in private by a surprisingly large number of people. Will Spiral become your new favourite Saturday night Euro cop drama? 2011-04-01T14:30:00Z

And what he and Tynan concocted was a movie that ran totally counter to the studio's preoccupation with harmless eccentrics and benevolent communities. Kenneth Tynan off stage: the theatre critic's life in film 2010-05-20T20:45:00Z

But the results tended to be more eccentric and ambiguous than the equally poetic but decidedly rational films of contemporaries like Jean Renoir and Marcel Carné. Jean Grémillon Retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Her rescuer, the eccentric scholar Charles Maxim, names her Sophie, takes her home to London and brings her up – in defiance of the National Childcare Agency – to be as eccentric as he is. Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell – review 2013-05-18T09:31:01Z

But “He Held Radical Light” is something else: a collection of private memories, literary criticism and theology, plus an eccentric anthology of poems Wiman holds dear, all drawn into an argument about art and faith. Is All Art Sacred Art? In a Prose Meditation, One Poet Makes the Case 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

For those who want a glimmer of the demonic to celebrate October but who don’t like horror movies, this ridiculous early aughts comedy stars Adam Sandler as Nicky, the eccentric youngest son of Satan. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Puffs’ and ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

To save her from urban pollution, she is sent to the country to live with her eccentric, beautiful Aunt Lily and her big, gruff Uncle Tancredo. Music Review: A Fairy-Tale Anniversary 2011-06-12T22:15:28Z

Dos Passos presents his eccentric biographical sketches of Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt alongside portraits of radicals: the Socialist Presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, the radical essayist Randolph Bourne, the labor organizer Joe Hill. What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

All three museums, each built by a wealthy eccentric, once represented intensely personal visions. Critic?s Notebook: Eccentricity Gives Way to Uniformity in Museums 2011-03-27T01:30:05Z

After getting a taste of the eccentric Charlie Kaufman-inspired powers of the properties’ guesthouse, Moss’s character suggests with a gleeful curiosity that they might explore this new world. Elisabeth Moss is more than Peggy Olson, as her new film, ‘The One I Love,’ shows

I used the word eccentric before to describe his storytelling style, and it includes delightful digressions into his own life experiences. Woody Allen Reviews a Graphic Tale of a Scandalous Starlet 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Cue swirling oboes, secrets and the usual gaggle of eccentric villagers and brutally middle-class ladies of certain vintage being absolutely beastly to one another. Tonight's TV highlights: Republic Of Doyle 2010-10-26T23:05:00Z

St. Anselm’s eccentric decor includes portraits of seven of the worst U.S. presidents, which sounds more controversial than it is. Review | No, this is not another meat market 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

An entertaining tour of a complex Mississippi town built on slavery and defined today by a handful of eccentric characters. New & Noteworthy, From the Rubik’s Cube to the Deep South 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Soon enough, the picture business came to regard her as an eccentric and a supporting actor who was not content mouthing the stupid lines beautiful women are expected to believe in. David Thomson on Patricia Clarkson 2011-08-25T21:15:01Z

The role is a departure for the defiantly inconspicuous — and eccentric — star. Diane Keaton, Hiding in Plain Sight 2010-11-15T19:16:00Z

The eccentric, violin-playing character has since become one of the best-known fictional detectives in the world and the inspiration for hundreds of movies, stage plays, books and TV shows. Benedict Cumberbatch and Sherlock Holmes is match made in history 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

McCarthy knows that some of this might sound eccentric. Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

From dress rehearsal to closing night, we are privy to the lurid backstage and painful onstage antics of extravagant eccentrics who rival one another in sheer hubris, drunkenness and comical degeneracy. The 99-Seat Beat: 'ICE," 'Noises Off,' 'Bad Jews' and more 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

It is also highly lyrical, despite its eccentric appearance, and charged with an often tragic tension. Elena Shvarts obituary 2010-05-06T17:40:00Z

With Yeezus, the proper solo follow-up, Ye reveals himself as even more eccentric and cocky than he’s been in recent years. Kanye West’s Yeezus Is Manic, Melancholy and Brilliant 2013-06-20T09:45:09Z

The estate of Asch, Folkways’ eccentric founder, sold the label to the Smithsonian on the condition that none of the more than 2,000 recordings in its catalog be allowed to go out of print. ‘Your Land,’ and Woody Guthrie’s, Preserved 2012-07-11T14:15:14Z

Indeed, the striking thing about "Radio8Ball" is that it's as gentle in spirit as it is eccentric in character. Radio8Ball says: You'll have fun at this show 2010-04-09T23:58:00Z

Bruce Hampton, who was known as the granddaddy of the jam scene for his energetic, eccentric guitar playing in a career that lasted five decades, died in Atlanta on Monday. Bruce Hampton, 70, Jam Scene Patriarch, Dies After Collapsing on Stage 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Instead, some of them grew eccentric and adventurous, impulsive and experimental, instinctive and personal — at times, bordering on avant-garde. With Streaming, Musicians and Fans Find Room to Experiment and Explore 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

The eight-episode first season delightfully goes nowhere fast, building out the world and the cast of local eccentrics. The Remarkable ‘Reservation Dogs’ Runs Away Toward Home 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

While Cumberbatch admitted that “it takes some time to get in Sherlock’s head because, you know, we’re not the same person,” he also said he was delighted to play the eccentric character once again. The Stars of Sherlock Return to the Show as World-Famous Celebs 2013-12-17T12:00:07Z

Back in the days of vaudeville, the label “eccentric dancing” was accepted for a wide range of idioms, not least tap. BalletX Flaunts Its Seriously Absurd Style 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

With only eight paintings, this small, exceptional exhibition reveals some gentler if no less eccentric — or vehement — sides of Mr. Dial’s achievement. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

In this way, she is truer to our time where, if we look at Freud at all, then it is perhaps with gratitude but also with that amused affection one pays an eccentric uncle. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

This forces the Brockets into embarrassingly eccentric domestic arrangements, such as attaching mattresses to their ceilings. The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne - review 2012-08-03T21:55:06Z

Among the 76 works are early masterpieces by Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse, De Chirico, Dove, Soutine and Miro, plus an unusual floral still-life by self-taught eccentric Henri Rousseau. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Their eccentric profile, isolated against white, forms a kind of muscular torso, not unlike Matisse’s 1909 “Bather,” striding through water, or one of Modigliani’s caryatids. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

“Victoria & Abdul” is about an aging British queen, her eccentric obsession with an engaging Muslim servant from India and the half-farcical opposition of the British establishment to their relationship. When the Empress of India Met Her Muslim Teacher 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

I did a sweet part in the Rev not long ago, which was good fun but, again, slightly eccentric. Sylvia Syms: 'I'd like a really evil part' 2012-07-19T19:00:04Z

He’s also an impressive eccentric in his own right, since his last novel was “An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England,” with a main character who accidentally reduced Emily Dickinson’s house to ashes. Books of The Times: A 9-Year-Old Fan of ?A Fan?s Notes,? Finding Truth in His Own Fiction 2010-09-29T20:52:00Z

The Madwoman of Chaillot Parson’s Nose stages Jean Girardoux’ satire about an eccentric woman who tries to stop a scheme to drill for oil in Paris. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 1-8: 'Seussical the Musical' and more 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

His mercurial personality and eccentric leaps of mind certainly made him difficult, even incomprehensible. John Rety obituary 2010-03-18T18:22:00Z

And the eccentric Sherlock Holmes of “Elementary” returns for Season 6. What’s on TV Monday: ‘James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction’ and ‘Elementary’ 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

In Coppola's "Peggy Sue Got Married," he played Kathleen Turner's goofy high school sweetheart -- and his older washed-up later self -- with an eccentric abandon that polarized critics. Nicolas Cage: Even his arrest is a bore 2011-04-18T15:19:00Z

The night's longest speech went to Public Enemy's eccentric rapper Flavor Flav, who giggled and rambled as he talked about the influence of his group's music. Oprah, Usher, Mayer honor Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees 2013-04-19T08:48:03Z

The show itself was not without its share of eccentric characters. Why the US embrace of Eurovision is good news for planet Earth 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

You will also meet eccentric characters possessed by a kind of madcap melancholy, soulful and silly in equal measure. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z

Resembling a flash mob, the attractive dancers race from one asymmetrical tableau to another, sometimes adding eccentric gestures without the frisson of true strangeness. Reviews: Works by Rebecca Davis and Milka Djordjevich, and Lyon Opera Ballet 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

In the rebuild, Anno also delves deeper into the fragile psyche of his flawed, traumatized hero and the eccentric personalities around him. ‘Evangelion’ Director Explains How He Finally Found His Ending 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

There are high school bullies to forgive; eccentric families to defend. Review | Emily Henry’s ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ is a pitch-perfect beach read 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

The Billy Collins poems that Mr. Prutsman set to music tell of a youngster enduring piano lessons from an eccentric teacher and struggling to practice scales. Music Review | Emanuel Ax and Dawn Upshaw: Saluting Chopin and Schumann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z

It is reminiscent of the eccentric Aunt Ivy she played in the latest series of the bizarre British sitcom Cuckoo, earlier this year. ‘I’d ask my mum: why do you drink?’ Andie MacDowell on childhood and Hollywood 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

But Young Thug, hip-hop’s great eccentric — he sounds sparkly, almost jovial, and worst of all, crystal clear. The Playlist: Mary J. Blige Sings of Self-Empowerment, Kendrick Lamar Raps About Power 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

This eccentric spectacle is very much in the spirit of that old gadfly, and Conti's mentor, Ken Campbell. Nina Conti 2010-08-25T20:30:00Z

“She was eccentric throughout her life, and loved to embellish stories about herself,” Ms. Hodes said. Spare Times for Children for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Asim was part of a “close-knit but contentious family of bookish eccentrics,” raised in a “hyperliterate household,” by studious, accomplished and artistically driven parents. Review | In ‘Boyz n the Void,’ a ‘malcontent with an allergy to authority’ finds freedom — and confusion — in the punk rock scene 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

During a visit early last year, a long display table in the front room showcased an eccentric arrangement of objects that included bottles of schnapps, hand-knit striped knee-high cashmere socks and delicate porcelain flowers. Foraging: Store Review: Andreas Murkudis in Berlin 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z

It's an eccentric tale with an even more arresting title. Sweden's Forrest Gump 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Both brothers are eccentrics who look as if they were transported from the early 1990s — dreadlocks, loud colors, drapey silhouettes, bonkers accessories. Out of Left Field, but Swinging Hard 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

It is a distinctive image, but eccentric, asymmetric, and utterly anti-heroic: the hero? The French Connection: shock of the old 2011-07-14T11:24:26Z

Stars Hollow, the fictional home of Gilmore Girls, the noughties TV series about a mother and daughter, is a quiet, eccentric town where nothing bad happens. 'It's sunny and safe': why Gilmore Girls is perfect comfort TV 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

One of those others is a criminal who decides to help Maite, and their eccentric partnership propels this noir mystery from the author of “Mexican Gothic.” 10 books to read in August 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Bill embraced fashion’s eccentrics and didn’t care about celebrities. ‘Child, I Trust You’: On Deadline With Bill Cunningham 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Her family is funny and eccentric, but beneath the jokes lie the pain of domestic abuse and the struggle of overcoming it. 8 books about Muslim life for a nation that knows little about Islam 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

But also featuring prominently are septuagenarian British crooner Engelbert Humperdinck and eccentric pop duo Jedward - twins from Ireland, much beloved by teenagers in Europe. Eurovision final kicks off in Azerbaijan 2012-05-26T21:14:14Z

Staunchly entrenched in the Hampshire countryside, the estate was long ago remodeled by an eccentric cotton magnate named Jeremiah Melville to resemble a medieval fortress, complete with portcullis and a moat. ‘We That Are Left’ review: Can the British manor house survive? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The sentimental appearance of an aged Han and Chewie only serves as a depressing reminder of the eccentric fun of the past. I'm a Star Wars fan, but won't be watching The Force Awakens 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

She was not the first to escape being pigeonholed as a self-deprecating ugly duckling, ingratiating flirt or asexual eccentric. Critic?s Notebook: Female Comedians Are Confidently Breaking Taste Taboos 2011-11-15T21:38:24Z

You could deride Cage for over-acting, as many have, or you could say his performance in Vampire’s Kiss is so exquisitely eccentric – so wild and restless and imaginative – it virtually defies description. I watched Nicolas Cage movies for 14 hours straight, and I'm sold 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Soon she was eager to move beyond the potter’s wheel’s “concentric thing” and began building increasingly eccentric ceramic sculptures. BAM hosts a dazzling Patti Warashina retrospective 2013-07-11T21:05:52Z

Suzanne was extremely generous with her time and her resources, multilingual, highly intelligent and often eccentric. Suzanne Lang obituary 2011-03-28T17:19:13Z

Will Bond, displaying the impish smile of an eccentric scientist, and Ellen Lauren, whose deceivingly detached inflections recall Laurie Anderson’s, pot around the stage in a manner that feels aimless and deliberate. Review: In ‘Chess Match No. 5,’ the Words of John Cage, Deconstructed 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

There were Russian women who lived as muses and as eccentric women who were adored by society. "It's very complicated": Salvador Dalí biopic delves into odd and kinky relationship with wife Gala 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

These days, the artist, who died in 2000 at age 75, is often called the Granddaddy of Goth, celebrated as much for his eccentric persona as his meticulously crosshatched pen-and-ink drawings. Edward Gorey Was Eerily Prescient 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Then, between Internet albums, band members vented their more eccentric ideas on solo recordings. The Internet Gives a Human Touch to Digital-Era R&B on ‘Hive Mind’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Wilson, who plays eccentric beetroot farmer/paper salesman Dwight, tweeted to his 3 million followers, before urging them to continue watching "The Office." "The Office" character won't get Farm spin-off on NBC 2012-10-29T23:47:47Z

They found some of his ideas eccentric and unworkable, and worried about his heated interactions with people, including staff members. At Roberta’s, Pizza and a Broken Partnership 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

His characters often were desperate eccentrics, whose fears and needs were invariably drawn with sympathy. Celebrated playwright, Lanford Wilson, dies at 73 2011-03-25T04:10:37Z

“He truly is an extraordinary character, unpredictable, eccentric, so timelessly chic,” Mr. Valli said. The Violinist Charlie Siem Strikes a High Note in Fashion 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

But what got lost in the post-“Letterman” pandemonium was that Mr. Phoenix was there to promote “Two Lovers,” a small eccentric character study that probably could have used some high-level publicity. James Gray and Joaquin Phoenix Reunite in ‘The Immigrant’ 2014-05-09T12:00:01Z

Calvin Johnson, On tour Record label pioneer, eccentric performer, friend of Kurt Cobain …Calvin Johnson is an example of that great oxymoron: indie royalty. This week's new live music 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

The building is eccentric even by Hollywood standards; one doorway doubles as the mouth of a large trompe l’oeil gargoyle. Rare Photographs From Inside a Hollywood Costume Archive 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

With his magician’s beard and old-coot drawl, he is a kindly, eccentric, wise man. Review: Fanciful Classic ‘The Little Prince’ Is Turned Into Modernist Fable 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Marlon Brando What can you say about the 1994 interview between the legendarily eccentric actor and the out of left field host except that King opened with, "You put your own makeup on today?" Larry King's memorable moments 2010-06-30T14:31:00Z

That question arises during the course of Julia Glass’s latest novel, “A House Among the Trees,” in which a broad cross-sampling of artists, eccentrics and strivers all come knocking at our door, demanding our attention. In Julia Glass’s new novel, a famous children’s author leaves a mess in his wake 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

Like the film around her, Marina is defiantly eccentric but also intelligent, sensitive and somehow rational. Attenberg, Dogtooth and the weird wave of Greek cinema 2011-08-26T23:04:02Z

This, then, is observational comedy for people who like their observations to arrive from eccentric left-field. Henry Paker ? review 2011-08-21T15:04:02Z

He knew that this inconvenient palaver for the beloveds was eccentric, but he didn't care. Extract: Trespass by Rose Tremain 2010-08-06T08:55:00Z

The latter is an appropriate metaphor for their eccentric, fairytale world, which mixes 80s synthesiser pop swirls with plinky-plonky beats, shimmering, ghostly textures and odd but catchy tunes. Purity Ring: Shrines – review 2012-07-12T21:00:03Z

It was well wrought but inevitably one-dimensional: Janina’s distinctive narrative voice, which treads a fine line between eccentric and downright cranky, is integral to the novel’s charm; the story feels flat without it. Review: In This Eco-Thriller, the Animals May Be Having Their Revenge 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

The rest of the show's detours felt like the sorts of indulgences you might tolerate in the second or third season of an ambitious, eccentric drama. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z

But “Third Person” is the kind of eccentric and emotionally exhausting movie whose ardent sincerity remains in memory after smoother, more conventional works have passed into oblivion. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Regardless, his is a great yarn populated with eccentric characters. TV highlights 09/07/2012 2012-07-08T19:00:01Z

What It’s About: The film’s eccentric subject, who doesn’t even know how to hold a paintbrush, decides to replicate a Vermeer painting with 100 percent accuracy. How to Watch Every Oscar-Shortlisted Documentary 2013-12-05T13:00:42Z

“In his eccentric way, he was a lovable and absolutely hysterical person, who brought everyone together,” Dr. Imber recalled. Five Men and 25 Years of Lunch and Friendship 2010-06-02T21:32:00Z

As Ms. Vega looked at the script, she said she grew increasingly dissatisfied; she felt she was portraying McCullers as “cute and eccentric,” and was now more sympathetic to her pain and her humanism. Talking About Her Love of McCullers 2011-04-27T16:06:15Z

It is agnostic as to style, catering to preps and eccentrics and even a bro or two. Critical Shopper: Mr Porter Online Shop: Critical Shopper 2012-09-06T02:54:26Z

And their program at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening was decidedly eccentric, yet utterly winning. Review: Unlikely Pairing Turns to Intense Affinity at Carnegie 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Xilitla is known for its coffee farms, its perpetual fog, its verdant hills, and a surrealist garden built by an eccentric Englishman, Edward James. Xilitla, Mexico: where Day of the Dead meets carnival 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

Act II presents Hoffmann’s tale about the wondrous mechanical doll Olympia, the invention of Spalanzani, an eccentric physicist, who presents the doll as his daughter. Music Review: San Francisco Offers Stravinsky and Offenbach 2013-06-24T21:37:07Z

Well, sleeping in the subway, in Petula’s time, was a sign of charming heedlessness, like walking barefoot in the park, the kind of thing eccentric and lovable characters might have done in a mid-sixties comedy. Let Us Sleep on the Subways! 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The word 'eccentric' has dogged British Sea Power since their debut a decade ago. British Sea Power: Machineries of Joy – review 2013-03-28T22:30:01Z

Her latest book dares new territory, as if she had decided to write a book comprised only of those crooked, eccentric turns of phrase. My Favorite Books of 2016 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

And just imagine the potential for film festivals that cater to even more eccentric passions. Mockfest, Food Film Fest and Other Niche Programs 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Following an eccentric line, Ms. Tanowitz dodges sentimentality and sneaks up on deep emotion. Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Broken Story,’ Wit Comes Full Circle 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

There's Granville Stanley Hall, for instance, no marginalised eccentric, but first president of the American Psychological Association and founder of the American Journal of Psychology. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review 2013-03-15T18:59:01Z

They seemed almost quaint, but upon further inspection were wildly eccentric. My Summer Waiting Tables at the Writers’ Retreat 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

But she was eccentric and self-deprecatory, and was always slightly ridiculed in a very conventional army family. Jocelyn Pook: inspired by mental illness 2012-11-23T22:55:11Z

Though both of his grandfathers were, in his words, “very quiet, like shadows,” his grandmothers were strong, eccentric and flamboyant. Denis Villeneuve of ‘Arrival’ Leans In to Strong Heroines 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The amiably eccentric — but emotionally direct — comedy series is written and directed by Crook, who plays Andy, a temp worker yearning for archaeological greatness. 'Game of Thrones' actor Crook finds gold with 'Detectorists' 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

While Hof may be the most eccentric person to tout breath as a panacea for the 21st century, he is not alone. 'You’ve had what we call a cosmic orgasm': the rise of conscious breathing 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

Just like Edward Scissorhands, Robin was created in the workshop of a hilltop castle by an eccentric inventor. Thicke as two short planks: Robin and Pharrell’s video testimony says it all 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Eventually, Mr. Organ settles into more assured rhythms and his voice — a little eccentric, a little sentimental — comes through clearly. ‘Phoenix,’ Starring Julia Stiles, at the Cherry Lane Theater 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Among them was David Shayman, or Disco D, an eccentric and troubled beat maker who became his mentor. Pop: Benny Blanco, Hit Maker for Rihanna and Maroon 5 2013-01-05T05:03:03Z

The early chapters of the book continue in much the same way — a young Will, naturally charismatic and eccentric, takes on the role of family entertainer to save his mother, himself and everyone else. Hollywood’s First Family of Putting It Out There 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Others will be satisfied by Mr. Albenda’s poetic wit and eccentric perfectionism and the dry, but sensuous fabric of his work. Art in Review: RICCI ALBENDA 2010-10-08T06:59:00Z

Its occupants, an eccentric brother and sister, their farm and the building itself were frequent subjects of his paintings, most famously in “Christina’s World.” In artists’ studios in coastal Maine, a glimpse at creativity’s interiors

A more eccentric instance of tennis-as-metaphor pops up in Shakespeare’s “Pericles,” where the tennis court is compared with the ocean. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

"We used to travel around everywhere to see them and they were so great with my kids," said the 54-year-old, best known for playing a self-absorbed, eccentric mother in the popular comedy series "Absolutely Fabulous". Spice Girls musical tests Girl Power's stamina 2012-12-11T12:29:12Z

Taken together, the shop evokes the edited yet wide-ranging output of an obsessive, eccentric master craftsman who’s dedicated to hyperlocal production. A Furniture Maker’s Quest: Create Everything From Scratch 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

AUSTIN, Texas — Santigold remade South By Southwest into an eccentric dance party on Friday, turning the annual music conference and festival into a participatory event for some of her lucky fans. Santigold displays total career takeover at SXSW 2012-03-17T01:56:08Z

Her eccentric, otherworldly personality; her shambolic career that lurched from one inconclusive crisis to another; her ignominious end at the age of 19; and her evanescent battlefield legacy — the pure quill of misfitdom. Lidia Yuknavitch blasts Joan of Arc into outer space 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Although the word “museum” might be stretching it somewhat, we are standing in a room filled with an eccentric collection of surfboards. Uncovering Cali cool in Santa Barbara's Funk Zone 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

It gives a taste of minor-league baseball life and a sampling of the eccentric characters that have always populated the game. What's the best baseball movie? 2011-09-23T20:59:00Z

Terry's pronouncement is not quirky or eccentric or 'just Terry'. Libraries 'have had their day', says Horrible Histories author 2013-02-13T14:38:14Z

In the first act his eccentric, whinnying line readings reminded me of a child pounding randomly on the piano keys, making lots of noise without actually making music. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z

It had a vast bench of eccentric recurring judges; it employed so many New York theater actors, it should have come with a Playbill. ‘The Good Wife’: A Broadcast Gem Fades Away 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

QUEENS, AUG. 4-5 Few choreographers can pique a passerby’s interest like Douglas Dunn, whose choreography sidles into public spaces and melds the eccentric with the everyday. 15 Summer Dance Festivals, Saratoga to Vail 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The motion is both circular and amusingly eccentric. Dance Review: Aki Sasamoto’s ‘Centripetal Run,’ at the Chocolate Factory 2012-11-30T22:51:52Z

Her takes on #MeToo, the racism of “white man ambition” and transgender identity reflect an eccentric mind working through issues, her startlingly funny jackhammer punch lines emerging from a deadpan glare. Sam Jay: A Comic Who Belongs to No Camp 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

It's not often that a mainstream movie focuses on an eccentric subset of the population without turning them into grotesques or cute little goofballs. The Big Year: Not Just for the Birds 2011-10-13T17:05:00Z

Never was it more sharply displayed than in last week's offering with Edward Fox as a fabulously doddery and eccentric survivor of the permissive 60s. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z

The overall winner, 15-year-old Rebecca Grant, won the judges over with her demolition of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, which she described as a "beautifully eccentric odyssey" reduced to "disgusting dregs". 'This is not criticism in a vacuum' 2010-10-20T21:01:00Z

Her starring role in a revival of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre, playing eccentric medium Madame Arcati, was lavished with praise by the critics when it opened last month. Angela Lansbury 'proud' to be a Dame 2014-04-16T09:06:53Z

We might just have found our own Charlie Kaufman in Nick Whitfield, a former stage dramatist who has made his feature-film debut, Skeletons ... it's intensely and pungently English, eccentric, strangely heartfelt, and very funny. Guardian First Film award: nominations 2010-12-23T22:44:00Z

She uses various vocal tricks to capture the whirring, clicking sounds J. Lo makes — as well as his eccentric grammar and accent — and seamlessly works them into the narrative. Corner: Let's hear it for these winning audiobooks 2011-04-13T20:22:06Z

They thought it was too eccentric, too weird and not correct. A Minute With: 'Ida' director Pawlikowski on Oscars, Poland 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

And the unexceptional nature of some of his material – being fogeyish about young people's music; relating his dad's eccentric behaviour – is only just concealed by Davies's energetic, emphatic delivery. Greg Davies 2010-08-24T21:30:00Z

As one of Britain’s most unique superstars turns 65, a look back at an eccentric career that has made its mark in music, film and fashion. Happy Birthday David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust Turns 65 2012-01-09T13:00:34Z

Even when they come from an eccentric millionaire high on his own power as well as actual drugs, displays of earnestness on this level strike a chord with viewers. A millionaire, his meth addiction and the horror movie 15 years in the making 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

But not at Il Focolare, an eccentric and ambitious restaurant in the hills run since 1991 by the d’Ambra family, where ingredients are raised, gathered or bought as close to the kitchen as possible. In Ischia, Italy, Cooking Is Done in the Sand, Not the Stove 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Set in Portland and full of wacky eccentrics and progressive types, "Blue Like Jazz" loosely belongs to the same universe as "Portlandia." 'Blue Like Jazz': Trading faith for theatrics at Portland college 2012-04-12T20:09:07Z

Even the eccentric designs of Duckie Brown, like buffalo-check pants with each leg measuring about three feet wide, were tempered with some neatly tailored blazers in a lively tweed. Fashion Review: Hilfiger, Rag & Bone, Duckie Brown, Billy Reid - Men?s Wear Review 2012-02-13T01:10:33Z

So begins the eccentric and utterly marvellous reign of Betsey Trotwood: simultaneously one of the most benign, and alarming, aunts in literature. Literary aunts: the good, the bad and the ugly 2011-03-25T13:43:17Z

If you live in New York, we're all trying to be eccentric here. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

An Instagram post of the eccentric footwear recently went viral and drew some funny reactions. Maison Margiela sneakers with hot candle wax design draw reactions: 'What in the hot glue gun?' 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

An eccentric Bostonian who has long been considered a pioneer in the history of American photography, Day started to explore religious themes that have been admired for their relation to old master paintings. Inside Art: ‘Degenerate Art’ Opens at Neue Galerie in the Spring 2013-12-26T18:42:24Z

Yet everywhere are eccentric touches, extremities that wobble and wiggle. Dance Review: ‘The Spectators’ at New York Live Arts 2013-05-16T20:28:13Z

Welcome to this year’s Oscar race, a contest that is crowded with eccentric characters and no shortage of hot-button issues. The Best-Picture Race Has Begun. Could One of These Films Win? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

“The film is a Rorschach test for people’s acceptance of the unconventional and eccentric,” Mr. Maysles told the Boston Globe in 2001. Albert Maysles, influential documentary filmmaker, dies at 88 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

It's not an eccentric habit or cultural convention like holding your chopsticks a certain way. Bouncy Noodles, Bright Greens, Quick Broth: A Perfect Bowl 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

True to genre form, the sightseers are an eccentric and secret-laden bunch. New in crime fiction: talented debut mysteries and thrillers by Matthews, Dugoni and Martini 2011-06-08T21:22:03Z

He could clearly be considered an “eccentric genius,” a “scientific genius” or a “technical genius,” she wrote, but was he also an “artistic genius” or a “poetic genius”? Can’t Let Go of ‘S-Town’? Here’s What to Read Next 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

My last day in London was to include a tour of the eccentric Dennis Severs’s House, which Severs, an American, bought in 1979. My trip to London was canceled, so I took it on YouTube instead 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Unmarked and unadvertised, the tiny bar nonetheless quickly became a phenomenon, known for its unapologetic dedication to expertly made pre-Prohibition cocktails, as well as its eccentric reservation system and exacting rules of decorum. Sasha Petraske, Bar Owner Who Changed Cocktail Culture, Dies at 42 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

If they have a further data point, it might involve his eccentric pet projects, such as building a model feudal village, called Poundbury, on his inherited estate. Can “The Crown” Make Us Crush on Prince Charles? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

His style of writing was nothing if not eccentric. Obituary: Sir Terry Pratchett 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Photograph: guardian.co.uk Harry Smith's eccentric, obsessive labour of love informed a generation. The rebirth of the compilation album: now that's what I call a surprise! 2013-04-28T18:00:01Z

A teenager is granted entry to an alternate universe after saving the life of a local eccentric. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Caren Fine Arts’ booth includes works by Beatrice Wood, an eccentric American who was part of the New York Dada circle. Art Review: New York Ceramics Fair and Metro Show - Review 2012-01-19T23:09:11Z

Expect great cocktails, music and plenty of unplanned entertainment and pranks from an eccentric crowd of artists and Pill Hillers. 17 of Seattle's top entertainment picks, March 18-24 2012-03-14T21:50:05Z

The daughter of Junior's eccentric landlady has run off with a cad, and she needs Junior's help to bring her home. Review: `Little Elvises' compelling, suspenseful 2013-01-29T00:31:05Z

The latest Gucci collection is all about aristocrats, dandies and artists gathered in the haven of a posh gentlemen's club, playing bridge and exchanging eccentric views. Milan designers tip hat to summer elegance 2011-06-20T22:31:13Z

The Bay Area’s natural inclination toward the nontraditional and eccentric contributes to the success of these shows. Arts: San Francisco Bay Area Is a Proving Ground for Musicals 2010-04-10T00:39:00Z

It could be variously characterized as a wildly impressionistic production documentary, a deranged remake of F. W. Murnau’s silent classic “Nosferatu,” or an eccentric assemblage of outtakes. Elusive Vampire Film Steps Out of the Shadows 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Pianist and bandleader George Gruntz, one of the few Swiss musicians to become a jazz star, once had an idea for an eccentric ensemble he called Piano Conclave. Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – January 2013-01-24T14:39:00Z

Always a conscientious eccentric, who divided audiences, and never apparently cared, he has to accept that he has had his days in the sun, and achieved an extraordinarily long innings, considering... McCririck denounces C4 'ageism' 2012-10-26T09:51:37Z

As a result, though I’m an “eccentric” bohemian writer and sometime performer, I live a pretty fabulous double life as Cosima’s table and travel companion. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

There is no shortage of eccentrics on hand to offer Mortimer help and more or less good advice. Dripping Slow and Sweet, Four New Books About Honey and Bees 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Posen also talked of studying Charles James, the fabulously eccentric designer who, in the 1950s, almost never showed his work to the news media. 2010-02-04T01:56:00Z

High temperatures turn deadly, apocalyptic storms are on the rise and feral pigs roam the planet — leading an eccentric entrepreneur to propose shooting sulfur into the atmosphere to cool things down. 16 New Books Coming in November 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

He did this through images packed with startling details, vivid tableaus, symbols and information that were often expanded on by eccentric, theme-matched frames made of things like branches, books and pill bottles. Art Review: ‘Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore’ at N.Y.U. 2012-09-06T22:07:05Z

It’s all par for the course for Rampling, whom Haigh calls a “movie star,” but one with highly eccentric tastes and a nontraditional charisma. Oscar suddenly notices Charlotte Rampling, after ‘45 Years’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

That draws a boisterous guffaw from Jones, whose loyalty to her outspoken, eccentric spouse has provoked speculation about how she could have jumped to Ingels from Cassidy, deeply troubled but unquestionably urbane. Shirley Jones offers naked truth in new book 2013-07-22T16:48:08Z

Covering more than four decades, with 64 works, Mr. Wurtz’s show may be, in its own quiet and eccentric way, one of the high points of the summer, if not the entire year. Art Review: An Artist Who Makes Much Out of Very Little 2011-06-30T22:05:51Z

Its humour and quality – and the hunt for a pygmy hippo by the eccentric son of a Mexican drug lord – ensured it caught their imagination. Would we have survived without the Guardian first book award? 2012-05-29T08:30:00Z

But Hollywood and its wide, enticing beach stayed underdeveloped, under the radar and slightly eccentric. Visiting Hollywood, Fla., while it still has its funky charm 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Most are fabulous eccentrics who do nothing but add to the gaiety of the nation. Cable girl: Lucy Mangan on A Different Breed 2011-04-05T07:00:04Z

In “Annihilation” it’s Lena who assumes the role of Orpheus, descending into a transfigured world filled with terrors, death, eccentric beauty and room for interpretive leeway. Review: In ‘Annihilation,’ a Heroic Journey into the Alien Shimmer 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

So she sucked up my eccentric journeys, and settled for a call from every port. Every woman should travel alone 2012-07-24T00:00:00Z

Those interviewed for the film, while eccentric, are accomplished, well spoken and, most of all, sincere. Secrets of the Scientologists: Why people do horrible things for belief 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

In the show Franco plays an eccentric installation artist, known only as "Franco". James Franco misses out on Twilight vampire role 2011-07-28T12:10:24Z

One of the first plays that pushed Soho Rep beyond dramatic classics, this eccentric Len Jenkin drama had a story, impossible to parse, which somehow involved occultists, oculists and a stolen diamond. Truth and Dare: 5 Plays That Made Soho Rep’s Reputation 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

They’re easy on the eyes but still eccentric enough that their beauty doesn’t swallow them. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Sarah Vowell 2012-02-23T20:24:02Z

As the fashion industry continues its fascination with clothes that bear evidence of a human hand, eccentric imperfection and the luxury of simplicity, Detroit has a particular selling point. Can a high-end boutique prosper in Detroit? John Varvatos has a vision. 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Others are fastidiously eccentric, like patterns disrupted just for the fun of it or drips of paint dripped atop other drips, forming rainbow rivulets. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Having built a live reputation with well-crafted, pun-heavy stand-up, his debut solo show breaks up the spoken material with surprisingly tuneful, gently eccentric songs. This week's new live comedy 2011-04-01T23:06:01Z

Freud insists on sex as the primary foundation; Jung has other ideas, including cranky and eccentric interests in psychic phenomena and telepathy. A Dangerous Method ? review 2012-02-09T15:29:01Z

Set in the shady corridors of the NSA, it mocks the whole business of government-approved snooping, following a young graduate as she is coached into being a fine lady hacker by eccentric old Agent Topple. Catch-up TV guide: from Luther to Comran's Drive-In 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z

Lucas' attempts to match Fielding's low-key levity shoved an eccentric twinge to each of their interactions, making his interplay with Fielding and the bakers both superfluous and weird. Turns out Alison Hammond is the zesty ingredient "The Great British Baking Show" has been missing 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z

That said, the dialogue is remarkably spontaneous and the performances, especially that of Harry Chase, a real-life voice-over artist playing an eccentric version of himself, refreshingly natural. | 'Hello Lonesome': Among Lonelyhearts, a Meeting of Minds 2011-05-26T21:01:44Z

While her career idled at a low hum, R&B turned eccentric again, for better and worse: the earth mother Erykah Badu returned, more psychedelic than before. Music Review: Kelis as Dance-Club Diva at Santos Party House 2010-04-22T21:18:00Z

A restaurant dedicated to tinned fish may seem eccentric, but, despite what Arrocet believes, we are not complete strangers to high-end – and beautifully designed – canned products in this country. Tincan: the restaurant serving only tinned fish 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

This film is brimming with empathy for its many eccentric real-life characters, never mocking them or making light of their relationships with their animals or their grief over the loss of those pets. Scarecrow suggests more fashion, animal and advertising documentaries 2011-04-28T23:48:49Z

Staffed by an array of talented and eccentric teachers, many of whom had come late to the vocation, it allowed our imaginations to flourish. From Hare to Hytner: leading cultural figures oppose the EBacc 2012-12-14T22:50:00Z

Most people en route dismissed me as an English eccentric, although many were politely intrigued. Experience: I crossed the Alps on a space hopper 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

A hired killer, living by his own eccentric but determined code of ethics? "The American": George Clooney's killer trip through Italy 2010-09-01T15:02:00Z

Born into a newly rich New York family in 1840, she moved north 20 years later and became known in Boston society as something of an eccentric outsider. 2010-01-21T06:29:00Z

In an interview with Davis, Cube depicts how the legendary and eccentric team owner threatened to leave Los Angeles unless more was done to accommodate his franchise. Ice Cube has a new rap -- documentary filmmaking 2010-04-28T20:52:00Z

"He's got a very eccentric sense of humor," Vomvolakis said last year. Ivanka Trump stalking suspect faces new NY charges 2011-03-23T01:53:09Z

A talented pattern maker, she transforms eccentric geometric shapes and super-realistic pictures — of people, pizza and paintings, among other things — into information-age hieroglyphs. Ruth Root's hierogylphics for a modern age rise in DTLA 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

More recently, he played the autocratic and eccentric leader of an advertising agency in “Mad Men,” AMC’s hit drama that debuted in 2007. Robert Morse, two-time Tony-winning actor, dies at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

She found here the precise combination of bright holiday sparkle and eccentric turns of phrase that made nothing seem predictable. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla shows why she's moving up in latest L.A. Phil show at Disney Hall 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

They are both slightly built New Yorkers known for intelligent performances dramatizing eccentric anxiety. Jesse Eisenberg and Zoe Kazan Discuss Their Plays 2011-09-25T03:01:23Z

His films became more radical, his methods more eccentric. Admiring Godard's Latest and Greatest 2010-05-14T14:30:00Z

It’s a little too determined to be eccentric. Review: ‘Welcome to Happiness,’ With Kyle Gallner Seeking Answers 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

As the founder and editor of Advanced Style, a Sartorialist for the superannuated set, he chronicles the stylish and often eccentric get-ups of a crowd that’s largely ignored by the fashion system. Respect Your Elders 2010-03-12T10:16:00Z

While the invitation possibly the most eccentric — and wasteful — ever seen was Balenciaga’s, which comprised a damaged iPhone 6S with a cracked screen and a laser engraved message detailing the invitation. Valentino gets ‘pretty in pink’ in bold Paris show 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

At times, he suggests the embryonic Los Angeles gangster rap of the late 1980s, or even vocal eccentrics like E-40 and Suga Free. Meet Blueface, the Self-Aware Rapper Who Knows He’s More Than a Meme 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Finally, get down to the Burton Coffee Stand before it closes at 3 and say hi to Kathy and all those island eccentrics who will treat you like their long-lost neighbor. Overnighter: Vashon Island, near Seattle, a Rural Throwback 2012-03-30T18:21:52Z

Yet the creations by one of the video game industry’s most eccentric designers are never that straightforward. He Created the Katamari Games, but They’re Rolling On Without Him 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

Ms Taylor said: "Danger Mouse is the last word in debonair and delightfully eccentric heroics," adding, "CBBC is thrilled to be kick-starting their adventures afresh." Danger Mouse to return to TV screens 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

What matters more to Ms. Notaro’s comedy is how her pleasingly strange concepts are executed with such conviction that they seem to develop an eccentric logic all their own. Critic’s Notebook: Tig Notaro Meets Taylor Dayne, Again and Again 2012-06-24T21:27:44Z

The expected eccentric nun recollections are never merely amusing character sketches. Review: Reliving a Childhood Interrupted in ‘The Tricky Part’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Some days I feel like the most eccentric person I know; other days I feel as dull as a pot of soaking beans. A Book of Cheeky Obituaries Highlights ‘Eccentric Lives’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

He loves being a guest at high table, with “extraordinary people allowed to be real eccentrics, not smoothed out by society”. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

But even an eccentric greenhouse, made from part of the set for one of Zeffirelli's productions of La Traviata, had been kept and adapted for use as accommodation. Rub shoulders with famous ghosts at Zeffirelli's villa ? only ?5,000 a night 2010-07-27T20:11:00Z

Was anything artsily eccentric happening on Seattle's music scene in the early 20th century? 'Before Seattle Rocked' author discusses book 2011-09-30T21:36:03Z

She becomes very adoring of an eccentric genius named Frederic, and he teaches her to write code, in which the book dabbles only cursorily. ‘Amnesia,’ Peter Carey’s New Novel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

This rigorously eccentric series was scarcely noticed at the time, but it's held up better than nearly any of its contemporaries. 'Doom Patrol Omnibus' shows Grant Morrison's master plan 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

We also find the only known skeleton of Nothronychus graffami, a plant-eating creature that looks as eccentric as its name suggests. Museum Review: The Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City 2012-03-23T22:08:01Z

I exclaimed, trying to imagine the eccentric Factory crowd as also being right-wing. Behind the scenes on Andy Warhol's "Women In Revolt" 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

When they emerged from Versailles in the late 1990s, their fondness for unfashionably smooth FM rock seemed somewhat eccentric. Phoenix – review 2013-04-23T14:10:11Z

The first episode of the season revolves around child care, with Sedaris’s eccentric characters offering advice for new parents. What’s on TV Wednesday: Ben Platt Live and ‘At Home With Amy Sedaris’ 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Undoubtedly, Gould was an eccentric and a hypochondriac, but this film argues for his human vulnerability. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould ? review 2011-01-20T22:10:01Z

Her South is a South populated by eccentrics she takes relatively seriously. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Her interpretations, while passionate and adventurous, cross into the quirky and eccentric. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

Season 2 begins as Teresa strikes a deal with an eccentric smuggler and Camilla fights to rebuild her empire. What’s on TV Thursday: Hackers, Politics and Screams 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Since then, the Sunset Tower, with its sophisticated restaurant and lovably eccentric maître d’hôtel, has become an enduring Hollywood hot spot. Scene Stealers: A Los Angeles Gay Landmark Buttons Up 2014-03-14T23:11:54Z

For reasons that don’t need to make sense, the case is given to Deaver’s brilliant but eccentric criminologist, Lincoln Rhyme, and his team. Solving Crimes the Old-Fashioned Way 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Maybe they needed to be eccentric, bumbling, culturally old-fashioned and over-motivated by good intentions. How Tom Sharpe earned his seat at high table of campus fiction 2013-06-06T18:05:57Z

Forrest likes the money just fine, but stealing it feels like an artistic pursuit, a religious practice or a geezer’s eccentric hobby. Review: Robert Redford Aims to Charm in ‘The Old Man & the Gun’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

What began as a solitary pilgrimage has ended by creating a companionable forum where the city's eccentrics foregather. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z

They also show a deeply eccentric artist giving her all. A Gallery Resurgence in Chelsea 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

There's a horribly bleak home birth and an eccentric hermit whose appalling halitosis masks A Terrible Secret. Call The Midwife Christmas special: a refreshingly sincere treat 2012-12-21T13:00:00Z

Impasto paint becomes sensuous skin in nudes whose eccentric poses are sometimes claimed to expose underlying states of psychological strain in the confrontational dialog between artist and model. 'London Calling' at the Getty and the tension between abstract and figurative painting 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon she nodded and said, in a kind of vague summation: "Well, you're an eccentric." Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z

Nonetheless, his eccentric readings have attracted a large and passionate following: several posts have received more than 1,000 comments. Lady Gaga and the New World Order 2010-07-01T20:59:00Z

Accompanied by either kind of sound, the men promenade and do ballet steps, but also more eccentric moves, naturalistic gestures, snippets of salsa. Miguel Gutierrez and Tere O’Connor Works at American Realness 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

“I like eccentricity,” Dr. Frances writes, “and eccentrics.” Books of The Times: Greenberg’s ‘Book of Woe’ and Frances’s ‘Saving Normal’ 2013-05-01T21:12:33Z

The friends part amiably enough, but any lingering good feelings are reduced to rubble by an argument over an eccentric piece of art that both households consider their own. Money Can’t Buy Love, but It Can Buy Goods — and in These Stories, Lots of Trouble 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

There is more than an echo of Sitwell’s defiance of gender and genre norms in many of today’s eccentric women – particularly when it comes to Tilda Swinton, who happens to be Sitwell’s cousin. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

This guy is not just eccentric, he’s demented. Music Review: ‘La Périchole,’ by New York City Opera, at City Center 2013-04-22T21:59:38Z

"He's got a very eccentric sense of humor, and he thinks it's funny, declaring himself a celebrity stalker," Vomvolakis said. Ivanka Trump's accused stalker freed on $10K bond 2010-04-02T00:02:00Z

In smaller turns, Brown is diverting as various eccentric and doddering figures, and Kramer aces his portrait of a Holocaust survivor’sson. Play inspired by rabbi and his fake torahs misses its mark 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

There are shadows of contemporary bone-breaking in this eccentric, timeless dance form, which, while angular, is also full-bodied. Review: Shwe Man Thabin at Asia Society 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

And if my fellow exercisers strike me as eccentric — hey, this is the Upper West Side. Urban Athlete: Boot Camp at the West Side Y.M.C.A. 2010-08-12T20:18:00Z

The usual highlights, like Lord Macartney’s trade embassy of 1793, are all here, but so too is a parade of less well-known but equally important episodes and a procession of gloriously eccentric characters. The Opium War and the Humiliation of China 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

More than 30,000 people descend on this eccentric city for the South By Southwest Interactive Festival each March. Snowden, Assange top bill at SXSW in Austin 2014-03-10T15:58:39Z

Durst, the eccentric estranged heir to a commercial real estate fortune in New York, is only charged with Berman’s December 2000 killing but prosecutors have introduced evidence linking him with two other deaths. Robert Durst admits ‘cadaver’ note made him look guilty 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

“Expect Great Things” is eccentric, strange, even far-fetched, but nonetheless admirable — a bit like Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

My group continued, traipsing through the night, looking for traces of those who had come before: the searchers and eccentrics and dreamers who had long been drawn to the mystery and majesty of Death Valley. Journeys: Death Valley: Three Million Acres of Weird 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z

It also made the gangly, eccentric Gould an unlikely classical superstar. 5 Hours of Glenn Gould Outtakes. Why? Listen and Find Out. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

On tour since the album’s release, Lorde has presented herself as a passionate singer, a proudly gawky dancer and the center of an eccentric spectacle that, so far, has scaled up without sacrificing intensity. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

This is another case of sewing machines and umbrellas, the items in question being the eccentric 1960s modernism of the original building, a pavilion with a somewhat wonky paraboloid roof, and Pawson's minimalism. Designs of the Year 2012 ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:52Z

He strikes her as a sweet, soft-spoken eccentric, a pampered rich guy who is also kind and vulnerable. Review: ‘Love & Mercy’ Gets Inside Brian Wilson’s Head 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

In the New York cast, Jefferson Mays plays multiple roles, both male and female, as the eccentric members of the aristocratic D'Ysquith clan. 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' to launch national tour 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Situated in the working-class Oregon Hill neighborhood, this jewel box of a restaurant boasts a delightfully eccentric menu. What’s new (and old) in Richmond, Virginia’s trendy capital 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

I’ll admit that I spent the show’s first 10 minutes or so in a state of slightly irritable resistance, seeing so many curmudgeonly eccentrics assembled for an in-house talent night. ‘Halfway Bitches’ Review: A Play as Unruly as Life Itself 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Police work aside, the final season maintains the show’s crumpetlike pleasures and eccentric tics. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

He is certainly an elegant, eccentric foil to the plainspeaking candour of Hanks’s American lawyer. The 50 best films of 2015 in the US: No 5 – Bridge of Spies 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

Rylance also won an Olivier Award for his performance as the charismatic and eccentric Rooster, drinking through St George's Day as he faces eviction from an illegal encampment. Inspiration for Jerusalem play dies 2014-01-02T10:09:04Z

At a later moment, the book seemed to me to be about what a power move it is to be “eccentric” and how that eccentricity coerces others into serving your fantasy. Which Canonical Work is Frequently and Frustratingly Misread? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Victorian critics thought him “squalid, seedy and eccentric”, in Ms Moyle’s words. Industrious genius 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Down the block from the St. James Cathedral, it is not so much a temple of high fashion as a pitching ocean liner captained by your favorite eccentric aunt. Global Shopper: The New Ikram Store 2011-12-21T21:30:06Z

“Jordan is a complete eccentric and also an incredibly wise man,” he added. A Broadway Mogul Redefines Clout in His Own Fashion 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Route 62 is lined with plenty of these towns, ones with laid-back, eccentric states of mind — and very reasonable prices. In South Africa, Fine-Art Landscapes for Postcard Prices 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Savile was one of Britain's biggest TV stars in the 1970s and 1980s, but revelations after his death in November 2011 about his activities stunned Britons and destroyed his reputation as an eccentric charity fundraiser. Police failings over BBC's Savile exposed in UK report 2013-03-12T00:10:06Z

And instead of the usual jumping around in genre — from the seafaring story to the thriller to the post-apocalyptic novel — this is mostly a strange and eccentric haunted house novel. David Mitchell is over the genre wars: “Confining an entire genre as being unworthy of your attention is a bizarre act of self-harm” 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

One core quality of eccentrics, Brown writes, is “a kind of vitality.” A Book of Cheeky Obituaries Highlights ‘Eccentric Lives’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Well known to fans of outsider art, Schröder-Sonnenstern’s drawings seem the products of a mind unmoored from the foundations of normal psychology and attuned to an eccentric, paranoid system conjured by its own obsessions. Art Review: A Perverse Mind Populated by Devils, Snakes and Buxom Nudes 2011-03-31T22:27:26Z

This near-tragedy of neglect is leavened by the eccentric charm of its central figures. Review: ‘That Summer’ Sheds Light on the Beales Before ‘Grey Gardens’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The carefully contrived nature of her search allows Murray to send her crisscrossing London among a variety of social strata, populated by eccentrics, bigwigs and average folks, deepening his portrait of this alien environment. Review | There’s no shortage of novels about what happens when the Earth stops spinning. ‘The Last Day’ may set a new standard. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

The novel’s narrator, a lonely, eccentric middle-aged woman named Cheryl, unexpectedly falls into a relationship with a callous younger woman, a blond bombshell named Clee, and finds her compulsively ordered life upended. Miranda July Blurs Fiction and Reality to Promote a Novel 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Not to subscribe to these beliefs is to be outside today's establishment, to be dismissed by it as an eccentric at best, or even as an extremist fringe element. The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

"People who gravitate here are open-minded and somewhat eccentric with a general appreciation for individuality and the creative process." Key West: A Writer's Town 2011-04-14T14:50:16.727Z

This dark fable isn’t a hit with some Miyazaki fans — the story takes eccentric turns, and the connections have to do with emotion, characterization and image rather than plot. Ranking the Films of Studio Ghibli 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Perhaps fittingly, the Shaggs’ legacy has unfolded according to its own eccentric logic. Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn?t Play Worth a Lick 2011-05-22T00:45:25Z

The play is, of course, about an eccentric multigenerational family living together in New York City. The Story of Us in 3 Generations and 3 Acts 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Formal structures were loosened, as music became a channel for strongly individual, often quirky, even eccentric expression. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z

An eccentric romp through canine history, it nevertheless shares the same thesis: dogs are poorly served by our misunderstanding of them. In Defence of Dogs by John Bradshaw ? review 2011-07-08T21:56:01Z

Both devised networks of wiry lines and eccentric shapes, although Miró’s — suspended in cloudlike washes of color — are more elaborate in their formal intricacy and narrative innuendo. 11 Galleries to Visit Now on the Upper East Side and in Harlem 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

The Internet intensifies a naming debate that has been going on for a long time: How to make a child’s name distinctive without making it too eccentric. No. 1 Thomas Rogers in the world 2012-06-25T01:00:00Z

Bobby’s death, Tsombikos decided, was a result of his struggle against an oppressive, grinding world that does not make room for eccentrics and subversives and people who are different. Growing older without growing up: Graffiti artist Borf 10 years later 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

“I’m not eccentric, I’m very eccentric. That’s the whole reason for coming on a thing like this. To meet other people as quirky as me.” Steampunks at Sea 2014-03-14T15:50:39Z

The old Yeasayer hasn’t vanished; it’s still in the band’s mutant rhythms and more eccentric lyrics. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z

This year’s Salon Art + Design, the 12th edition of a fair dedicated to fine and decorative arts, transforms the Park Avenue Armory into a fabulous and eccentric collector’s house. At Salon Art + Design, Gold Bracelets and Lipstick-Red Monochromes 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Reinhart was honored with an appropriately eccentric lineup of pieces, punctuated by brief tributes to his influence on the dance world. Dance Review: An Eccentric Sendoff for a Festival?s Leader 2011-06-12T22:10:07Z

He went on to become known for striking musicality, accessibility, an often eccentric sense of humor and a refined, at times highly technical use of everyday movement. The Paul Taylor Company Without Paul Taylor 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

The actor James Franco quit over corporate friction caused by some of his eccentric tweets. Noted: Celebrities Are Leaving Twitter 2012-07-18T19:24:09Z

Only Lovers Left Alive is an indulgent, eccentric midnight movie with a great deal of muso musing about vinyl and guitars and cool retro stuff. Cannes 2013: Only Lovers Left Alive – first look review 2013-05-24T21:49:58Z

“In the old days this diversity was considered eccentric. Now this has helped the Globes gain credibility.” Not-so-Golden Globes: Hollywood expects darker tone on awards night 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

Isolated and eccentric, he set up his final recording sessions at home in Graceland in 1976, cramming musicians into the Jungle Room; a bitter song about infidelity, “Hurt,” became a hit. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

In 2007 he came full circle when he was cast as the eccentric head of an advertising agency in the acclaimed AMC series “Mad Men,” set in the same era as “How to Succeed.” Robert Morse, Impish Tony-Winning Comedy Star, Is Dead at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

To the charmed visitor, it appears to be a love letter to British country estates of long ago and the nature-obsessed eccentrics who ambled through them. A Southern Home That Embodies Oh-This-Old-Thing Elegance 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

The Musée Colette, which occupies an old chateau in the shadow of an 11th-century keep on a hill overlooking Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, is as delightfully eccentric and bohemian as the woman who is its main subject. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

And what a group — an assortment of eccentric, tragic and highly amusing women trying to free themselves from their obsessive, self-destructive pursuit of awful men. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

But his choice of movement often shows a streak of lunacy, a naïve and eccentric singularity that makes you think, Who else in the world would have thought of something so completely nutty? Review: Mark Morris Is a Citizen of the World at the White Light Festival 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Either way, these eccentric floating artworks are now a colourful part of Britain's maritime history. Dazzle Ships and the art of confusion 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

First-time visitors should be warned against proceeding directly from lunch to any of the “eccentric” cars on the Wonder Wheel, though some traditionalists claim that they’re much slower than they used to be. Coney Island, Then and Now—the Cyclone, Nathan’s Famous, and the Wonder Wheel 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

In the night’s most stunning upset, it was Colman, and not the heavily favored Glenn Close, who took the best actress trophy for her blazingly eccentric turn in “The Favourite.” Top Oscar moments: Buoyant Spike Lee, daffy Olivia Colman 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

“It’s the happy/sad. It’s the beautiful combination. It’s like, humble, and self-deprecating, and wildly original and eccentric at the same time.” ‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Waring, an eccentric artist nearly forgotten, was an influential figure. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet at Gould Hall 2012-03-12T22:23:42Z

And I am trying to be humble and kind to myself about it even though my basket case is getting full and, yes, I’d much prefer to think of myself as eccentric rather than sick. My bipolar awakening 2012-08-15T20:59:00Z

And this is an idea I hang on to about the life of eccentrics in Tangier: The locals care for the comfort of strangers. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

One appealingly eccentric pie that combines a New Haven clam pizza with a Peking duck pancake is finished with fried julienned leeks. What Has New York Pizza Been Missing? Little Old Rhode Island 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Taken together they are like a digital flea market run by an erudite eccentric with a good sense of humor and an eye for the unusual and the unsung. Art: Jim Linderman Collects It All, Vintage Sleaze to Baptism Photos 2012-02-12T15:28:58Z

Does the fashion brand Rodarte — winner of industry awards, darling of museum curators, stylistic lodestar of eccentric actresses — actually exist? Does Rodarte actually exist? The vaporous business plan of a fashion industry darling. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Two of the funniest scenes involved silent glimpses of Creed, the weird old eccentric played by Creed Bratton. Steve Carell leaves "Office" in low-key farewell 2011-04-29T03:08:20Z

He brought together eclectic décor and furnishings — Danish woodwork, Italian marble, eccentric Liberty London prints and modernist and expressionist artworks — to create the hotel’s richly detailed, Danish colonial-cum-modern settings. In Copenhagen, Hotel Rooms Worth Traveling For 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

In a landscape filled with stand-ups straining to go against the grain, carving out brands as renegades, Williams is a genuine eccentric. What Makes Katt Williams Great? It’s Not the Jokes, It’s the Performance 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Meet eccentric New York personalities through the wandering HBO series “High Maintenance.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘High Maintenance’ and ‘Mean Girls’ 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

The book is “an unruly, overwhelming, vastly eccentric novel” that is “sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit,” he added. Women Dominate Shortlist for International Booker Prize 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

She is genuinely eccentric in a way that lots of actors probably wish they were. 'My life was chaotic' 2011-08-20T23:05:34Z

Take Lily Allen and Kate Nash, who brought back girl-next-door sounds and styles; and Lady Gaga and Florence and the Machine, who have revived eccentric presentation. Diana Vickers: 'Have fun with me!' 2010-03-30T20:30:00Z

All of this suggests that Doremus was some kind of lone, eccentric child prodigy but it was quite the opposite, he says. Drake Doremus on Breathe In: 'I feel a mid-life crisis coming' 2013-07-18T14:20:20Z

The lovable eccentrics of romantic comedy always move toward what Gretchen calls disgusting normalcy, and the trick for the writer is knowing when to bring down the curtain. ‘You’re the Worst,’ on FX, Extends Its Subversive Rom-Com Arc 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

He was talked about by fellow scientists as an eccentric, a lone obsessive. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The more the eccentric characters debate about “the claims of nationality,” as it’s put by the elderly gentleman played with wonderful British agitation by Vincent Clark, the more profound it all sounds. Avast! Sunny pirates, a frosty ‘Frozen’ and a forecast from Shaw 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

But a brief stint on a major label notwithstanding, Mr. Johnston’s high-pitched, off-kilter singing voice, uncomfortably intimate lyrics and erratic behavior fated him to be alternative rock’s eccentric mascot, not its shining star. Daniel Johnston, Back on the Road, Hopes This Isn’t the End 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Griffin said that when she stepped in for her "beloved friend" Rivers, who died in September, she was "was thrilled to continue her legacy as a woman being brash and eccentric on television." Kathy Griffin's 'Fashion Police' exit gets outpouring of support 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

After lunch Enid leads me upstairs, where I meet my roommate, an eccentric seventyish earth mama named Jean with wispy, white locks and a slender, youthful figure. “I tell myself I will quit bingeing when I get diabetes”: Tales of a sugar addict 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

The thing about England, he learned, was that if you were aristocratic, eccentric or artistic, you could always have a place at the table. Mr Chow restaurant opens in Las Vegas: 'The only thing Chinese is my name' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

It's intensely and pungently English, eccentric, strangely heartfelt, and very funny: a film I watched to the incessant accompaniment of my own giggling. Film review: Skeletons 2010-07-01T22:20:00Z

He became an eccentric figure even for Hollywood, living in solitude, constantly changing his appearance through plastic surgery and extreme weight loss, claiming allergies to both alcohol and sunshine. Michael Cimino, Oscar-winning director of ‘The Deer Hunter,’ dies at 77 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

The wit is in the steps and their sequencing, the unpredictable rhythms, the eccentric coordinations. Pam Tanowitz and Trey McIntyre Project Among 2014’s Best 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

I knew the evening involved singing, picnics and polished shoes, but the reality was even more eccentric than I imagined. Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for an outdoor summer feast 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

In the amusing, mildly raunchy Paris film her heroine Marion takes her American Jewish boyfriend to meet her eccentric French family. 2 Days in New York ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:44Z

“Red Plenty” is a strong and eccentric book about a beautiful mass delusion, a filigreed vision of a place Mr. Spufford likes to call “Story Russia.” Books of The Times: ?Red Plenty,? by Francis Spufford, About Soviet Russia 2012-02-14T23:18:36Z

It was built by an eccentric Texas billionaire, but the project quickly went into bankruptcy and receivership while humans were still living, unaware, inside. T.C. Boyle explores a world within a world in 'The Terranauts' 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

She is very much an eccentric of the old school. Virus pushes storied Paris fan museum to brink of folding 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Atmosphere A small, bright room with a deliberately eccentric design that celebrates newness and artifice. At Le Turtle, a French New Wave You Can Eat 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Despite its title, “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind” is a straightforward, conventionally assembled documentary biography of an eccentric, decidedly idiosyncratic comedian and actor. Review: A Serious Look at the Life of Robin Williams 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

Fred Rogers, who died in 2003 at 74, enjoyed wordplay, jokes and flights of imagination that were far more eccentric than the soothing advice and tender stories usually identified with “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” ‘Donkey Hodie’ Adds a Fresh Face to Fred Rogers’s World. And a Mohawk. 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

“My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea,” written and directed by Dash Shaw, is an eccentric and lively animated fantasy. Review: Angst, Jealousy and ‘My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea’ 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Everyone sort of wrote him off as eccentric and nutty,” he said. Antiques: Digitizing Scrapbooks of the First Bronx Zoo Director 2013-08-29T21:12:11Z

The creator of "Family Guy" suggested Oscar producers tap the eccentric actor Joaquin Phoenix to host the show. Seth MacFarlane won't return as 2014 Oscar host 2013-05-20T19:55:12Z

Groups of audience members moved from house to house, up wonky staircases, past family photos and eccentric art collections, to rooms where members of the Sixteen performed lute songs, medieval airs and viol music. The Sixteen 2010-06-15T21:20:00Z

It is a privilege to write for The Washington Post every week, particularly given my eclectic — some would say eccentric — tastes. Perspective | What to read next? A summer book list like no other 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Part of me is genuinely eccentric,” the artist Edward Gorey once said. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

With the exception of Waltz, who plays eccentric German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz, the majority of the main players are not only American but from the South. Quentin Tarantino unchains America's tormented past in "Django" 2012-12-24T13:08:23Z

It’s probably best to approach this 90-minute piece as a series of disconnected, sometimes haunting images rather than attempt to solder together a drama from the snippets of often eccentric dialogue. | 'The Battle of Stalingrad': At Lincoln Center, Souls Suspended in a Siege 2010-07-21T21:17:00Z

His eccentric storytelling and polarizing nasal timbre seemingly argue against large-scale commercial success, but the Mountain Goats' stature continues to grow. Mountain Goats bigger, but unchanged 2011-04-06T14:29:00Z

The eccentric chef and owner, Nevio Sirotic, puts the “slow” in “slow food,” with lunches lasting for three or more hours. 36 Hours in Istria 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

As Andrew Sarris wrote in “The American Cinema,” his magnificent, sublimely eccentric taxonomy of good, bad and fringe directors, “direction is a relatively mysterious, not to say mystical, concept of creation.” The Oscars Issue: How Michael Haneke and David O. Russell Told Love Stories 2012-12-28T16:46:27Z

Eccentricity and consistency don’t always get along, and Bouley is a slightly eccentric restaurant, as Frank Bruni noted the last time it was reviewed in The New York Times, in 2009. Bouley in TriBeCa Still Goes Its Own Way, Seductively 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

“My Father, the Genius,” Ms. Small’s 2002 documentary profile of her father, Glen Small, an eccentric, egotistic architect, is also noted. Review: With ‘One Cut, One Life,’ Ed Pincus and Lucia Small Document His Illness 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The family may have been viewed as a band of eccentrics, but, it transpired, this was no bar to success. Joaquin Phoenix: ‘There was a period when I wanted out. I wanted my life back’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

All of his work together may add up to one of the most eccentric and encyclopedic ground-level portraits of a megacity in the Internet age. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

Set in the New World in the 18th century, this wonderfully eccentric movie centers on an official of the Spanish empire brought low by hubris and the laughter of women. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The distinctive comedy of David Cross may be most widely known from his role as the eccentric Tobias Fünke on the television show “Arrested Development.” Q&A with David Cross: Don’t ask him about ‘Arrested Development’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

His pair of recent albums, “The Hybrid” and “XXX,” have been forceful and eccentric, full of improbably catchy songs brimming with off-kilter bravado and sometimes blistering humor. Music Review: Danny Brown and Kitty at Irving Plaza 2013-05-08T21:58:46Z

I went bird-watching for the first time with a retired African-American teacher who was a famous Berkeley eccentric. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

It’s another eccentric addition to her CV, but Plaza still feels as if she doesn’t get enough odd scripts. 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

The longer the conversation goes on, the more eccentric the robot becomes. A Robot That Has Fun at Telemarketers’ Expense 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Some shoes had unmatched colors and headgear was eccentric, with one model sporting a turban-style piece and another wearing a seemingly solid helmet-style hat that looked to be made of blue shimmering metal. Vivienne Westwood thrills fans with eclectic show 2010-09-19T23:16:00Z

When corroborating alibis seemed to clear his name, a string of eccentric suspects followed, beginning with Hazel’s surly and melancholy uncle, William Taylor, whose farm was located within a mile of Teal’s Pond. Hazel’s brutal murder was all but forgotten. Until she inspired ‘Twin Peaks.’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

There were also orange banquettes, giving the eating area a personalized, intimate feel, while retaining the eccentric color coordination. Eero Saarinen’s Michigan 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Even when she started singing her own songs in public, she still viewed Frankie Cosmos as an eccentric art project, meant mostly to amuse her family and friends. Frankie Cosmos’s Small World Gets Bigger 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

A glass case lovingly encloses an onion ring collection that once belonged to her husband; it's one of several eccentric but affecting personal collections on display. Maira Kalman's work lights up NY's Jewish Museum 2011-03-09T11:11:13Z

Has anybody told the guy that the Justice League is not an eccentric New England law firm? Will David E. Kelley dumb down Wonder Woman? 2010-10-04T19:55:00Z

Like Ranald Graham, she stumbled into a landscape of astonishing eccentrics, whispering voices hungry for the right ventriloquist. Marine Court: Hymn to the Sun 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

It is a strong – if eccentric – concept, full of possibility for a comic adept at subverting gender, cultural and class stereotypes. Russell Kane – review 2012-10-29T17:26:22Z

Pascoal plays Round Midnight on a kettle, turns two squeaky toy pigs into percussion instruments, and howls and grunts along while playing eccentric solos on his keyboard. Hermeto Pascoal – review 2013-07-19T16:17:02Z

For the Alaskan live/work space of the eccentric inventor, they combined two Norwegian properties designed by Oslo-based Jensen & Skodvin Architects. See Ex Machina’s Stunning Sets 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

She dresses instead, bless her idiosyncratic heart, like a true blue, old school English eccentric. In praise of Helena Bonham Carter, fashion tragedy 2011-02-24T16:20:00Z

A cultural historian and philosopher of education, Barzun would be limited, and made more bland, by the term eccentric. Opening Day: Spring’s other religious holiday 2013-04-01T22:13:00Z

Finck’s cartoons in The New Yorker offer dispatches from an eccentric, anxious mind. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

But he’s saved the most experimental material for Moonface, the dreamy meditative stuff as narrowly focused as his other eccentric work was wide, the work heavily indebted to drone. Moonface's Heartbreaking Bravery: Love Hurts, But It Sure Sounds Good 2012-04-18T10:44:59Z

Lilo was a Hawaiian outcast, Stitch a gruff alien, and their relationship had a similarly eccentric punch. 'How to Train Your Dragon' breathes visual fire into 3-D tale of friendship 2010-03-24T23:35:00Z

More of a study in anthropology than anything else, this eccentric museum displays some of the most revolting, cringeworthy food and drink from cultures around the world. Fresh, local and unpretentious: A Swedish city with a stirring culinary scene 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Instead, he’s become the kind of artist who invites listeners into a private and eccentric world. He’d Always Been Thundercat, Whether He Knew It or Not 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

The heroic figures are the hybrids, the orphaned, the outcast, the eccentrics, the true inheritors of a great and long tradition. Standing Close to the Harry Potter Movie Wizardry 2011-04-04T13:28:35Z

The biography’s closing pages rail against Italy’s pernicious machismo, which reduces this “international star” to a “a madwoman, an eccentric.” Review | Oriana Fallaci: the journalist, the agitator, the legend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

The eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

The lineup of performers, as Ms. Wadhwani said, was “eclectic, almost eccentric.” Exploring Bohemian Mumbai 2010-04-01T10:00:00Z

Thus Hopkins' initially fascinating Father Lucas, an eccentric, semi- secluded exorcist growing weary in Rome, becomes less compelling once ambiguity is set aside. 'The Rite': Anthony Hopkins is an actor possessed in this cheesy thriller 2011-01-27T22:44:12Z

"You can't expect exemplary behavior from an eccentric man like him," he added. Dior fires "odious" Galliano over racist slurs 2011-03-02T05:52:25Z

Each creature, with its eccentric assemblage of found objects and mechanisms, is a singular world with its own idiosyncrasies and principles; by immersing yourself in one, you begin to understand others. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Noah’s Ark,’ at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles 2014-04-21T21:43:03Z

And the album’s tracks are as eccentric and playful as they are bleak. “Atlanta” and Vince Staples and a New Hip-Hop Sensibility 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Mashing limp romance and artless satire into a ludicrously contrived plot, “The Clapper” lurches from one mirthlessly eccentric scene to another. Review: Finding Unwanted Fame in ‘The Clapper’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

I read this hilarious account of Gerald Durrell's Corfu childhood with his eccentric family as a set book at high school and was hugely inspired by it. Lauren St John's top 10 animal adventures 2011-07-21T09:20:04Z

I went through, like, a punk and dark gothic phase, and then I was very hippie and then just very camp, very eccentric. The Joy of Dressing Like a Rock God 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

Emphasis on Bliss, a good word for this eccentric, joyful, finely wrought excursion. Art Review: Trisha Donnelly in MoMA’s Artist’s Choice Series 2013-01-02T15:59:43Z

Her art can appear eccentric or obsessive while also bearing Surrealism’s sophisticated symbolism. Cologne Museum Dives Into German Artist’s Once-Lost Fantastical World 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Her collection of eccentric outfits was growing, she was still into dressing up, and sometimes she would go out socially "in character". Me, myself and I 2011-01-15T00:04:05Z

What were once eccentric creations have become polite and well behaved. Critic?s Notebook: Eccentricity Gives Way to Uniformity in Museums 2011-03-27T01:30:05Z

If this sounds eccentric, it may be because everything I knew about sales, I learned from “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z

Barnum began operating the venerable Scudder’s American Museum of oddities and relics in 1842, transforming it into an eccentric exhibition hall, theater, lecture center and freak show named, naturally, for himself. ‘Circus and the City’ at Bard Graduate Center Galleries 2012-09-20T22:40:07Z

Yet these promisingly eccentric elements rarely cohere into any form that combats an inevitable numbness. ‘A Bright Room Called Day’ Review: The Playwright Enters the Play 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

The most eccentric of Glasheen's quirks is his insistence on maintaining a large – and largely brown – bowling green, which he cuts with a petrol-powered mower. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild – TV review 2013-04-23T06:00:08Z

"The Crazy Ones" was a comedy series that aired on CBS in 2013 and featured Williams as an eccentric ad exec. Robin Williams: The comic's TV legacy from 'Mork' to present day 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

This is obvious enough in fiction, but wonderfully eccentric stylists such as, say, Jan Morris or Harold Bloom don't need their magnificent non-fiction to be turned into Google Notes. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z

“Fetching Blemish,” a selection of eccentric self-portraits by nine artists, is hung salon-style on a single wall with an initially charming effect that soon palls. Art Exhibitions From Chelsea to the Lower East Side 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

It’s these eccentric careers that I really look up to, people who defy the expectation of their art form and even what their role should be as an artist. Possessed: A Curator at the Whitney, Jay Sanders, Considers, ?Is It Art? 2012-03-17T00:03:45Z

Working freehand, the artist renders concentric lines that become increasingly eccentric as he magnifies each glitch when drawing the next orbit. In the galleries: The intersection of nature and man 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

In “Network,” an ahead-of-its-time cautionary tale about the corrupting power of television, Ford can be briefly seen on a TV in the control room before the screen flickers over to the eccentric newsman Howard Beale. If You Think the Oscars Have Gotten More Political, Here’s Why You’re Right 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

What has happened to the great British eccentric? Bedwyr Williams: why I'm taking a space observatory to Venice 2013-04-14T17:00:01Z

It offers a critique of how math is taught, an appreciation of its peculiar place in the human imagination and biographical sections about beautiful minds and splendid eccentrics. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Howard Hughes, the eccentric head of RKO Pictures, lavished money on what he envisaged as a stirring tale of romance and epic battles on Asia’s steppes. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

Aunts have come a long way since the single, eccentric aunt played for sad laughs like Aunt Gladys in 1995's "Home for the Holidays," who confesses a teenage kiss before slurping wine. All hail the holiday aunt: the most untraditional character in traditional Christmas films 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

Some people would regard him as eccentric, I say. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

In 1948, when Mr. Keepnews was managing editor of the jazz magazine Record Changer, he wrote an early profile of Monk, an eccentric composer and pianist who was not widely known at the time. Orrin Keepnews, producer of milestone jazz albums, dies at 91 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Miranda explained to the BBC's arts correspondent Rebecca Jones that "there are times when… people want big, silly, warm, honest, eccentric humour and that seems to be now". AUDIO: Miranda Hart on her comical life 2012-10-09T08:47:07Z

Along with mainland Nicaraguans and eccentric expatriates from the United States, Italians are well represented on the Corn Islands. Next Stop: Off Nicaragua, a Quieter Caribbean 2012-11-07T17:48:36Z

Having squandered her inheritance, an eccentric widow sells what property is left and sails with her son to Paris. 50 notable works of fiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

It’s as delightfully eccentric as “Guernsey” yet refreshingly different. A sizzling summer story: ‘The Truth According to Us,’ by Annie Barrows 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

In “Lost Leonardo,” it’s a ride through an art world peopled by colorful characters and eccentric billionaires. ‘Lost Leonardo’ unpeels the mysteries of the Salvator Mundi 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Probably they expect me to be a little more eccentric than I am. Christian Siriano on his ‘Project Runway’ return and creating that Oscars tux ball gown 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

There’s something about the narrative breathlessness of Dickens, and his joy in shaping outsize, eccentric characters detail-by-detail, that makes performers identify with his creative process. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Page Meets Stage 2010-10-13T22:20:00Z

There are so many others – rock musicians, eccentrics, writers, dissidents – of the same vintage, with different stories to tell, but all variations on the theme. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z

“Am I eccentric?” she asked in an interview with The New York Times in 1999. Marta Becket, Dancer in the Desert, Dies at 92 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

She is a totally charming, quintessentially English eccentric who solves crimes among the English uppercrust with the assistance of her devoted chauffeur George Moody. Anne Holt's top 10 female detectives 2010-12-08T12:34:00Z

This slant takes Harper in a few eccentric directions. Dementia Patients Aren’t in Their ‘Perfect Mind.’ Then Again, Who Is? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

And then there are the eccentric materials, brightly colored map pins, glitter and — most famous — elephant dung. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

He approached publisher McGraw-Hill in 1971 claiming that he had struck up a rapport with eccentric aviator and billionaire Howard Hughes, who had largely retreated from public life. 21 of the wildest cons in history 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

Sympathetic, profane, brassy and real in an eccentric way, Alley's journey will be a challenge for her, and to watch. Big laughs in Kirstie Alley's new reality show 2010-03-16T01:31:00Z

And Mr. Garnon is delightful as a cannily crazy king, a prickly outsize eccentric given to both tics and trances. London Theater Journal: Pomp and Circumstance 2010-08-03T19:04:00Z

It’s hard to imagine the big cheeses at Marvel casting Cage, given the actor’s propensity for eccentric decision-making and the MCU’s episodic nature. Nicolas Cage as The Joker could be a masterstroke – or a major mistake 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

“He was eccentric, a little bit eccentric, but charming,” she said at the Oscar de la Renta show last week. At Gucci, a Messy Exit for One Designer Opens an Unlikely Door for Another 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Gould was a galvanizing, distinctive artist, equal parts genius and eccentric. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

But perennial eccentric Westwood, who turns 72 next month, loves mixing up her eras. Westwood, Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf play on style 2013-03-03T03:01:05Z

Mr. Cohen, a New York filmmaker and video artist with an eye for rough urban landscapes and eccentric artistic characters, is a patient observer and a cunning, subtle storyteller. Movie Review: Jem Cohen’s ‘Museum Hours’ Explores Links of Life and Art 2013-06-27T21:18:15Z

Last year, the actor once again refracted his eccentric public persona through the camera lens in a project with photographer Sandro Miller. John Malkovich photo exhibition heading to Los Angeles in February 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

The spirit onstage is always free, eccentric, uninhibited. Review: The Unraveling Fantasy of John Heginbotham’s ‘Fantasque’ 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

He could be an eccentric outlier, a holy mouthpiece, a symbol or all of the above. Tobias Kratzer Is Leading Opera’s Next Generation of Directors 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

She arrived in a white short-sleeved, high-necked sweater, dotted with outsize ladybugs, and her affect was as wholesome, earnest and embraceably eccentric as her style. In ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Annaleigh Ashford Puts It All Together 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Melanie's side can be more eccentric, like the film's Portokalos family, but they didn't fashion their home based on the Acropolis. A vegetarian pastitsio for when "you don't eat no meat" 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

But Toscanini’s, with its doctoral-student scoopers and its eccentric maestro at the helm, turns out endless dips of Gingersnap Molasses and Burnt Caramel. Beloved ice-cream brands from around the country 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Both are eccentric nonconformists in Franco’s Spain, oblivious to the Catholic Church and affiliations of social class and politics. ‘Ordesa’ Is a Meditation on Yearning, Solitude and Family 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Where to Take a Field Trip Coney Island hosts the eccentric and colorful Mermaid Parade on June 22, with revelers in shimmery scales and oversized tails. Taking the Kids: New York 2013-06-13T20:22:22Z

He was eccentric and wacky, fun to be around, and you couldn’t fault his love of money because he hadn’t had any growing up. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z

It was a chance to study this woman, who was so strange, so eccentric, more closely. Maggie Smith Shifts From Dowager to Down and Out for ‘The Lady in the Van’ 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

He's an artist and all artists are a little bit eccentric. Soup for you! Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi" reopens in NYC 2010-07-20T21:27:00Z

She doesn’t have a memorable or eccentric voice like Johnny Most or Marv Albert, and she doesn’t do shtick. In Praise of Doris Burke, Basketball’s Best TV Analyst 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Twelve years and nine features after Monsters, Inc., you get the usual, unparalleled Pixar spin and polish, and a college full of winning eccentrics, without the seismic startle and emotional depth of the original. Pixar’s Monsters University: When Hairy Met Scary 2013-06-13T18:12:17Z

These days, it's not so much Kim Jong-un's eccentric dictatorship that makes Americans tremble, it's their newfound rival for superpower status, China. Why Hollywood kowtows to China 2013-03-11T14:24:26Z

I realise this is an eccentric suite of compliments, but here's the plot, such as it is. Sundance film festival 2013: Upstream Color – first look review 2013-01-23T12:05:00Z

It’s based on a battery of interviews, including nearly 200 alone with Balanchine’s former dancers, whom as a group Homans refers to as “unusually eccentric and fascinating” and “forbiddingly tight-knit.” A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Ekberg was courted by eccentric tycoon and filmmaker Howard Hughes and subsequently married two actors from whom she later divorced. Anita Ekberg, 'La Dolce Vita' bombshell, dies at 83 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Williams recently appeared as an eccentric advertising executive in US sitcom The Crazy Ones. Obituary: Robin Williams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Like any such store, Clinton Street Books, in Brooklyn Heights, tolerated a few eccentric regulars. One of these was the Beat Generation icon Herbert Huncke.” Sunday Reading: The Beat Generation 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

“He was an eccentric billionaire living in Manhattan. They’ve always had a sort of mutually beneficial relationship. It was proximity and convenience.” Will a gossipy tabloid be the new paper of record in the Trump administration? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

The rare eccentric in three recent visits: farro soup based on a saffron and red pepper broth with potato “croutons” floating on top. At Thally, chef Ron Tanaka comes into his own

The tone that emerges from its liberal, eccentric smorgasbord is both generous and entertaining. Dance Review: American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center 2013-01-14T23:01:01Z

The critic Terry Teachout, writing in The Wall Street Journal, called it “that rarity of rarities, an opinionated but not eccentric scholarly history by a veteran museum curator whose every page crackles with original thinking.” William Agee, Leading Art Curator and Teacher, Dies at 86 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

His tale offers fillets of history, culture and zoology, with an emphasis on the eclectic—not to say wilfully eccentric. Net worth 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

The strange and unpredictable course of rock history means that Nirvana exploded in 1991 and made it possible for raw, eccentric, and experimental bands to get a wider hearing. The Feelies on “the awkwardness of trying to break through” 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

The 88-year-old actress, who plays eccentric medium Madame Arcati, drew a massive round of applause when she arrived on stage on Tuesday's opening night at the Gielgud Theatre. Critics praise 'sparkling' Lansbury 2014-03-19T11:39:46Z

Together, the rooms create a claustrophobic maze, though they more pointedly resemble cabinets of curiosities with jumbles of books, dead animals, laughing masks, acres of rugs and eccentric objets. ‘Knives Out’ Review: Murder Most Clever 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

This is the cultural power of wine, and why I cherish even eccentric manifestations like sherry. Manzanilla Sherry: Singular, Saline and So Polarizing 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

But Sitwell is not the most eccentric female aristocrat to have graced history. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

William Empson was a major British literary critic, but also a superb poet and memorable eccentric — I once spent an afternoon with him that ended with us in a pub playing Shove Ha’penny. A treasure trove for book lovers: Michael Dirda picks books about books 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lee is “an Englishman, but he’s not eccentric,” Mr. Pinault said. Breaking the Curse of the It Bag 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

The work mystified me when I first saw Ms. Zahlmann perform it in 2012, and revisiting it on Monday, I still found it more eccentric than beautiful, and not exaggerated enough for camp. Downtown Dance Festival, With Isadora Duncan Company 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Accompanied by video montages from the movies, we are led through its classrooms and dorm rooms, past teachers — villainous and eccentric — and magical objects. Standing Close to the Harry Potter Movie Wizardry 2011-04-04T13:28:35Z

Categories like organic foods, once the province of eccentric health nuts, are now mainstream and big business. Want to Pick Better Bottles? Repeat After Me: Wine Is Food 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Shimmering with a Proustian glow, “Fun Home” is an investigation into the history of a fascinatingly eccentric and profoundly troubled family. This 'Fun Home' weaves tragedy and comedy into a wholly original American musical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Then, perhaps thinking of her rival Elsa Schiaparelli, Chanel added, “But she is not eccentric. I hate eccentricity.” | Slave No More 2014-02-06T16:00:26Z

Barmy, loose canon, eccentric; Mowlam was called all these for having the temerity to raise complicated issues, such as the legalisation of drugs. The Leveson debate is now about politics, not the press 2013-03-18T07:00:23Z

Surreal imagery and eccentric characters aplenty in a parable of a snowy Turkish village that takes in an eccentric stranger. This week's new films 2012-06-15T23:05:17Z

An architectural and cultural subset of such apartment houses is the gargantuan, prewar Upper West Side palace, at once a city-state of casual opulence and a provincial village stuffed with eccentrics. A Drug-Fueled New York City Bacchanal and the Lives It Changed 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Purity, who hates her name and goes by Pip, grew up with her eccentric mother in a 500-square-foot cabin outside Santa Cruz. Review: Jonathan Franzen's Purity Examines Wealth and Identity 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

To the eccentric Burton, who has directed such quirky movies as “Edward Scissorhands” and “Beetlejuice,” turning a revered historical figure into a vampire slayer isn’t that much of a stretch. Abraham Lincoln: The what? 2012-06-21T15:48:00Z

But this remains a lively hour of fun with this gentleman eccentric. Tim FitzHigham ? review 2011-08-28T13:32:13Z

But it spotlighted Anderson's ability to see the world in a different way, to be fascinated by the more eccentric sides of humanity, all of which is so incredibly realized in "Budapest." Golden Globes 2015: 'Boyhood,' 'Grand Budapest' directors walk alone 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The angle Wilcox favours is eccentric and personal: the tragic tale of the ill-fated pet dog of the murdered Romanov princesses was a memorable highlight. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-11T00:15:00Z

Mr. Barber’s subjects tend to be colorfully eccentric and good talkers, capable of philosophizing by the yard. In ‘The Third Plate,’ Dan Barber Meets Food Pioneers 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first of the three Back to the Future films, in which he played the eccentric invetor Doc Brown. Christopher Lloyd: a reticent Hollywood icon speaks 2010-04-01T20:30:00Z

To love art for itself often seems an eccentric and marginal enthusiasm. Did Peter Doig paint this landscape on LSD? 2013-05-17T15:10:37Z

But one of Hollywood’s great populist composers has a lesser-known side that qualifies as moody, edgy and sometimes even eccentric. John Williams: Five underrated scores by the AFI-honored composer 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Ilona Katzew, curator of Latin American art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has puzzled over the bedeviling question for the last two years after receiving an enticing — and eccentric — letter. A masterpiece of Baroque painting, missing for more than a century, is hiding somewhere in L.A. 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

Within 25 years of Walpole’s death in 1797, the politician and writer Lord Macaulay was loftily condemning him as “the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious of men.” Special Report: Museums: The Gothic Pioneer Horace Walpole Finally Gets His Due 2011-03-22T17:00:08Z

The non-transplantability of brains means the only people looking to buy them are eccentric collectors—and apparently they exist. The Black-Market Value of 100 Brains: Less Than One Good Kidney 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

The connection is apt, for Capra's villains are unabashedly Dickensian, his eccentrics too; even the raven that haunts his 1940s movies recalls the mysterious Grip from Barnaby Rudge. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z

As well as attracting the greatest scientific minds of the day, the board enticed people who belong to one of the most important traditions in British society; the extreme eccentric. Navigating 18th-century science: Board of Longitude archive digitised 2013-07-18T06:47:24Z

I remember feeling at home among its eccentric residents and fabulously gawdy-colored shoe box cottages, many now spray-painted with the cross-shaped search symbols used by rescue and relief agencies in Katrina’s aftermath. We Wanted a Carefree Family Trip. So We Invited a Second Family. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

It seemed eccentric, and he was fined tens of thousands of dollars by the N.F.L. for blowing off mandatory press scrums. The Profound Silence of Marshawn Lynch 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

There, Ms. McCarthy learned the difference between characters who were eccentric and those who were flat-out crazy. Melissa McCarthy Goes Over the Top 2013-06-13T12:00:01Z

Whenever you think you’re settling into a familiar groove of dialogue, with eccentric losers engaged in antic bickering, the play ascends to a plane that can only be called transcendent. Theater Review: Conor McPherson’s ‘The Night Alive,’ With Ciaran Hinds 2013-12-13T03:00:09Z

Given the movie’s eccentric nature, production values are surprisingly high. In ‘The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T,’ Practice Makes Pandemonium 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

It felt more like being in the backyard of an eccentric billionaire with a green thumb than an ancient temple to the Greek goddess of marriage. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Beethoven’s more ostentatious phrasing, as in the 6th and 13th variations, sometimes sounded jerky and eccentric. Music Review: Beth Levin Plays Beethoven Variations at Bargemusic 2010-07-04T21:51:00Z

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The sisters can't help being glamorous, in true, eccentric English style. Sophia Bennett's top 10 stylish reads 2012-07-12T07:00:00Z

Or holding cookouts on her roof deck, where she summons artists, singers and eccentrics. Parker Posey’s Offbeat Glamour 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

“Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography” presents a complicated picture of a woman caught under the thumb of an eccentric, domineering father and a patriarchal New England society. Martha Saxton, Historian Who Explored Women’s Lives, Dies at 77 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing here that would tell you you’re watching something by the man who made “Before Sunrise” or “Dazed and Confused,” beyond a general sympathy for the bohemian and the eccentric. Watch List: ‘Up to Speed,’ With Timothy Levitch, on Hulu 2012-08-10T23:47:45Z

When they met each other, he was a very eccentric, almost hysterical person. "It's very complicated": Salvador Dalí biopic delves into odd and kinky relationship with wife Gala 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

And “Person of Interest,” on CBS, introduces a former C.I.A. agent and a rich, eccentric billionaire who together fight crime in New York. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z

Part of it has to do with the producer Mica Levi’s eccentric take on electronic pop and R. & B., which is full of tiny imperfections, moments that feel warped and lopsided. Our Favorite Songs of 2018 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

But I don’t think I’d enjoy spending all that time reading the voluminous correspondence of an eccentric crank whose mission is to get customer service agents to whiff at complaining curve balls. What would a theater critic write to the creator of 'Letters From a Nut'? Well, let's start with ... 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

The museum promised a glimpse into Prince’s working environment, and a bit of his eccentric lifestyle. Prince’s Paisley Park Museum Opening Snared by Zoning Vote 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Instead, "Lucy" is an eccentric, idiosyncratic riff founded on the oft-expressed notion that human beings use only 10% of their brain capacity. 'Lucy' is an action-packed waste of brain power 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Earthy beetroot and cucumber schnapps are among the more eccentric selections. Following a trail of schnapps through Germany’s storied Black Forest 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

In this case, he was also looking for the lively and eccentric style found on the city’s wintry streets. Daniel Arnold’s 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

And yet, this eccentric hit had enough heart and ingenuity to earn top honors from the actors, writers, producers and directors guilds, a clean sweep only four other films in history have ever managed. Oscars 2023 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress? 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

In this competition of reigning eccentrics, Rockwell is the surprise winner for his intense and acute bantam lunacy. Seven Psychopaths: Smart, Violent, Crazy Fun 2012-10-11T12:00:26Z

He was a schoolteacher and an eccentric would-be scientist who, she is appalled to learn, performed cruel emotional experiments on her as a child. ‘The Empathy Diaries’ Is a Beautiful Memoir About the Life of the Mind and the Life of the Senses 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

On the other end of the spectrum is Catie Turner, 17, a genuine eccentric who auditioned with searing original comic folk songs about feminism and suggests a possible Frankie Cosmos enthusiast. The New ‘American Idol’: Youth Gone Wild and an Understanding Dad 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

And, just as the way humans run is a triumph of dynamic motion over inherent instability, so the tower rises in a continuous unfolding and overlapping of "unstable", non-linear or eccentric orbits. First among Olympian obelisks 2010-04-01T05:30:00Z

Not just with sound and fury; there are genuinely eccentric innovations here. ‘6 Underground’ Review: Action by the Numbers 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

There are beautiful beaded and leather purses, as well as eccentric ones with alligator heads, menthol cigarette wrappers, faux walrus fur and soda tabs. A clutch show: 'The Purse & the Person' at Seattle's Museum of History & Industry 2010-12-16T20:53:04Z

He did not like to leave England and lived in a slightly eccentric house in East Sussex, where he collected jigsaw puzzles of the Queen Mother. Raymond Briggs, Illustrator of ‘The Snowman,’ Dies at 88 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

We also meet current artists, such as the delightfully eccentric Alexander Stoddart. Tonight's TV highlights: Madagascar 2011-02-16T00:04:00Z

While, historically speaking, being an English aristocrat helped ensure you were put in the eccentric box rather than a mental asylum, it has never been a mandatory requirement for attaining eccentric status. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

He also spends time talking about the eccentric archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians who have contributed to the world’s greatest discoveries. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

The value of living with an eccentric parent with the accompanying pitfalls is beyond measure. The Season of the Skulls 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

That was the joke of “Wonderful Town,” the 1953 musical about two sisters from Columbus, Ohio, who move into a basement apartment in Greenwich Village with eccentric neighbors and a kooky landlord. Review: ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Features a Midwestern Fish Out of Water 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

But no matter how eccentric Heuman’s vision, it’s always offset by a certain crisp orderliness. A British Interior Designer’s Tricks for Staying Organized 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Haizlip used his refined taste, eccentric character and outsider’s perspective both to guide the show’s aesthetic and to define its goals. ‘Soul!’ Brought Black Culture to TV in 1968. A New Doc Tells Its Story. 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

“In the Pony Palace/Football” is a giddily exuberant confection that manages to conjure a distinctively eccentric theatrical world by tweaking one of the most familiar American subcultures: high school football. | 'In the Pony Palace/Football': Gender Blitz on a High School Gridiron 2011-02-16T23:09:46Z

He was a real artist and great eccentric, a true original, but above all, he was a really nice man. Alien Director Ridley Scott Remembers H.R. Giger: “He Was a True Original” 2014-05-13T17:39:41Z

But it’s quite possible to stay overnight in the eccentric township of Hana and explore every bit of the coastline that so bewitched O’Keeffe. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii 2012-11-30T19:41:37Z

The high court's justices, which like the eccentric detective get to decide which cases to tackle, declined to hear an appeal filed by the estate of author Arthur Conan Doyle, who died in 1930. Elementary, my dear Watson: U.S. court rejects Sherlock Holmes dispute 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

At first Mortmain rages and tries to trick his way out – but by the time he's rescued by his wife, the incarceration has worked and he's successfully embarked upon another strange, eccentric work. Lesley Glaister's top 10 books about incarceration 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z

He befriended a West Village eccentric, Mary Kaplan, who took an interest in him. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Knight said: “There wasn’t anybody else like Judy. These fashion eccentrics or originals or dandies — whatever you want to call them — they’re the sort of people who make the fashion world go round.” His Name Was Blame: A Legend of London Fashion Remembered 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

Tory of the Express pegs Joyce as "just a bit crazy, eccentric, self-obsessed and self-involved and manipulative, and barking mad, probably." Tabloid: The Honey Blonde and the 'Manacled Mormon' 2011-07-14T21:10:00Z

They don’t resemble traditional folk art, nor do they seem animated by the sort of eccentric imagination associated with outsider art. In Sheet Metal and Scraps, Ronald Lockett Evokes Struggle and Survival 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sevilla, the most eccentric of the bunch, cracks a smile as he bounces around. Review: Rebecca Stenn’s ‘Riparius (Belonging to the River)’ in Brooklyn Debut 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

But the film is at once overly eccentric and underdeveloped. ‘It Was You Charlie,’ a Feature Debut About Dashed Hopes 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The “African Desperate” cast includes a number of practicing artists, and the effect is effervescent without feeling gratuitously eccentric. ‘The African Desperate’ Expands the Movies’ Narrow View of the Art World 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Dury, who died in 2000 at 57, had been kicking around for a while, but with the arrival of punk his eccentric, anarchic blend of underdog anger and music-hall mischief suddenly made sense. | 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll': Andy Serkis Stars in Ian Dury?s Punk-Rock Story 2010-05-04T22:55:00Z

One of the wonderful things about his music is that it's full of eccentric touches. Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans 2012-11-07T18:07:54Z

The good news is that all three seasons of this joyous, eccentric series are now streaming. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Fascinating though that was, for me the best bit was the section on JP Morgan, a ginger feline owned by the museum’s eccentric founder, Bob Meijer, and the inspiration for the museum. 10 of the best eccentric attractions in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

The most eccentric is a 1963-64 tangle of wire, painted half black and half white, encasing an abandoned grocery-store shopping cart. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Barney Miller, which was set in a New York City police station populated by oddballs and eccentrics. Veteran character actor Steve Landesberg dies 2010-12-21T05:46:04Z

He doggedly researches the eccentric work of an artist and writer named Verner Vanderloon, and becomes enchanted with a local 8-year-old girl named Asthma. Review: Books by Amie Barrodale, Joy Williams, Hubert Mingarelli and Rikki Ducornet 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

In all, it would seem that “the mystery trend” here is a kind of inspirited, sometimes vaguely figurative formalism in which the personal, the eccentric and the historical mingle in refreshing, quietly exuberant ways. Art In Review: ‘THE MYSTERY TREND’ 2012-07-26T20:01:19Z

Britt Allcroft was a gentle, slightly eccentric, grandmotherly woman who was full of ideas, and after we met, I couldn’t say no to her. ‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in Hollywood 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Slyly turning natural verbal rhythms into eccentric choral numbers, Mr. Cork creates a serial-killer opera whose genius is to transform the banal into something exceptional. Review: 5 Murdered Prostitutes and an Anxious City in ‘London Road’ 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The eccentric ancestor who refused a fortune, out of stubbornness, or from other, hazier, essentially quite decent reasons. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z

As a result, performances such as Hopkins's portrayal of an eccentric, older gentleman named Adam -- his first time playing a gay man on screen -- often fail to reach theater audiences. Anthony Hopkins reaches a "Final Destination" 2010-04-20T18:46:00Z

It was ostentatious and indulgent; it was a smorgasbord of eccentric delights. Perspective | Lady Gaga’s dress won the Golden Globes red carpet — but men’s fashion showed it can compete 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

For a time, most of the pairs belonged to Kent Warner, a movie-lover and eccentric who filled his home with purloined movie memorabilia from his time working in costumes in Hollywood. Judy Garland’s stolen ruby slippers from Wizard of Oz reappear after 13 years 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

“I think people might get stopped by the voice, and it drives me nuts. They think he’s an eccentric or something, and he’s not really. He’s a busted kid, like all of us.” Edgar Oliver, Actor and Raconteur, Hews to His East Village Past 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the egalitarian treatment of his eccentric combination of soloists for the Second “Brandenburg,” Bach abandoned altogether the hierarchies of his “various instruments.” There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Secrétan and his friends used to bully the eccentric van Gogh, and the authors suggest that there was some sort of encounter between the painter and the boys on the day of the shooting. Books of The Times: ?Van Gogh: The Life,? by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith 2011-10-20T21:57:30Z

"Stereotypical signifiers of gothdom may not always be appropriate for us black-clad eccentrics, especially the ones celebrating their 21st birthday multiple times," she says. Forever goth: Elders not about to lighten up 2012-02-15T19:29:02Z

This 1971 movie classic stars Wilder as the eccentric title character, owner of a chocolate factory as famous as Hershey’s. Spare Times for Children Listings for Nov. 25-Dec. 1 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

On an episode of the hit Nickelodeon series “iCarly,” the lead character’s eccentric older brother, Spencer, makes dinner one night. The Spaghetti Taco, ? la ?iCarly? 2010-10-05T22:55:00Z

The author remains sensitive to her native state's harsh wilderness and its resourceful, eccentric inhabitants. New crime fiction by Dana Stabenow, A.D. Miller and Flavia de Luce 2011-02-10T00:32:04Z

He wasn’t an eccentric playboy; he was a predator. Perspective | Jeffrey Epstein doesn’t deserve to be a conspiracy theory 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

The story of an eccentric Scottish schoolteacher with pro-fascist tendencies originated as a novel by Muriel Spark. Actress Zoe Caldwell, Tony winner for ‘Medea,’ dies at 86 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

When the eccentric RKO boss Howard Hughes became interested in her, he sent his lawyer to Mrs Taylor with an offer of $1m to arrange a marriage with her daughter. Elizabeth Taylor obituary 2011-03-23T14:01:48Z

The spirit of Abby, last year's pint-sized eccentric, is present both in the hyperactive Cory and the perennially dazed Riley -- who also has in him a dash of Logan, last season's bow-tied winner. TV Picks: Ricky Jay, Tom Edison, 'Justified,' 'Masterchef Junior' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

The women, appropriately, have the richer parts, and these actresses revel in the eccentric bravery of their most fully developed roles. Review: ‘A Brief History of Women,’ an Alan Ayckbourn Comedy of Tragedies 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Though the walls of Ms. Venditti’s office are covered in Polaroids of models and personalities and local eccentrics, she averred, “I say this with respect, but I don’t identify with the casting director title.” Jennifer Venditti Will See You Now 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

While adopting a vernacular vocal style, with minimal vibrato along with a somewhat eccentric conversational phrasing, she still treated the American songbook as a species of art song. Review: Jessye Norman’s Salute to the Love Song at Carnegie Hall 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

And our library's much more open plan, with a younger, more vibrant staff, although they are just as eccentric. Librarian Lizzy Evans on Shelf Life 2010-04-12T20:45:00Z

By replacing a typical audience with her original one, she breathes life into a cliché by making it literal and creates a compelling dynamic that is as eccentric as her singularly funny comedy. Critic’s Notebook: Maria Bamford’s ‘Special Special Special!’ Online 2012-12-17T05:09:03Z

They wore eccentric clothes, smoked pipes, and took on airs. Elvis Costello has a new memoir, and it's even better than Bob Dylan and Keith Richards's books 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

You have eccentric art world personalities and dry FBI investigators colliding. Netflix's uneven but informative "This Is a Robbery" makes the world's biggest art heist feel stale 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Calder’s mobiles, whose orbits are eccentric, are particularly hard to anticipate. The Secret Stunt Doubles of the Art World 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

The press notes for “House” state that the story originated from the “eccentric musings” of his 11-year-old daughter, a nice, perverse touch. 2010-01-15T04:07:00Z

But it’s true that he doesn’t seem like the kind of eccentric who would conceive of an orchestra piece about a crumbling highway. Mr. Strummy-Strum Tries a Synth Sound 2010-10-15T21:14:00Z

From this eccentric premise, the plot of “The Arrest” settles quickly into an odd stasis, sustained only by the cerebral wit of Lethem’s voice. Review | Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

The story line concerns an eccentric family that runs a funeral home in a small Pennsylvania town. Tonys 2015: Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron lead a big night for women in theater 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Today Nilufar, which occupies a storefront plus two floors of a meandering, disjointed apartment building, showcases one of the world’s most eccentric arrays of collectible furnishings, from midcentury to contemporary. Nina Yashar Opens Milan Gallery 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The operative theme is the lonely heart, trying to find companionship in the world, sometimes succeeding, other times failing even amid a crowd of happy eccentrics tumbling and stumbling along. ‘Pepperland’ is an ecstatic and provocative Beatles tribute — and like no land you’ve been to before 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Flint became one of the best known faces of 1990s British electronic music, performing apparently random dance moves often with eccentric hair cuts. Prodigy's Keith Flint, Firestarter singer, dies aged 49 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Rocky can be eccentric in his fashion, especially as compared with the hip-hop mainstream, preferring high fashion to merely expensive designers, and in some circles his flirtations with other cities’ sounds were read as carpetbagging. ASAP Yams, Partner to Hip-Hop’s ASAP Rocky 2013-01-25T13:00:00Z

After a 15-year absence, Warren Beatty returns to the big screen in "Rules Don't Apply," a personal project about the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. Warren Beatty returns to movies with 'Rules Don't Apply' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

English gardeners are not just notoriously passionate about horticulture but also eccentric with it. Perspective | Why the shade garden is so underrated — and how to create your own 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

This season, it scuttled the talk-show storyline and wrote in an eccentric brother for Applegate’s character Reagan, becoming more of a conventional hangout comedy. Up All Night Gets Re-Re-Remodeled: Is It Time to Tear It Down? 2012-12-07T14:42:46Z

Pyramus and Thisbe are represented by towering, 15ft-high puppets that owe something to sophisticated companies such as Handspring and Royal de Luxe but also to an English eccentric like Heath Robinson. A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) – review 2012-08-15T17:05:47Z

The actor’s A-list status helps get eccentric projects like “Casa” and the “Spoils” series off the ground, of course. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

In real life, only three things would make a girl like Tina pay a second's attention to a dishevelled, eccentric type like Graeme: wealth, chloroform or Twitter. Grace Dent's world of lather 2010-06-25T23:10:00Z

Suitable for his often otherworldly settings, Mr. Vance wrote a stylized, attention-getting prose, not baroque exactly but not lacking in ornamentation or eccentric music, and full of vivid, sometimes lurid imagery. Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z

Mr. Kumar’s book is eccentric, and thus human, on multiple levels. Books of The Times: ?Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb? 2010-08-05T22:00:00Z

Universities became more and more dominated by a management culture which became less and less tolerant of eccentric behaviour. How Tom Sharpe earned his seat at high table of campus fiction 2013-06-06T18:05:57Z

If you wouldn't yet call him a national treasure, time has revealed him to be a very English, very suburban eccentric. Pop's undersung heroes: artists with big influence but small reputation 2010-07-15T21:00:00Z

Mr. le Carré is maybe the most eccentric constructor of fiction in English literature since Joseph Conrad. Adapting John le Carr? Novels for the Movies 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z

Along the way, the eccentric Rose family picked up a cult following. Seattle’s ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Rosebud Motel is back on Queen Anne — with new additions 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

The quirky sound effects and relentless pulse of Philip Miller’s incidental music for small ensemble flowed and contracted with the eccentric theatrical elements. Review: In ‘Refuse the Hour,’ Exploring Temporal Extremes 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

He was an eccentric visionary who collaborated with Dr. Dre and Prince, and helped discover 2 Pac and produced tracks that would make him a star. Perspective | Shock G of Digital Underground was a psychedelic rap pioneer who helped hip-hop crossover 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

It takes an extraordinary — and quite possibly eccentric — person to actually do so in a submarine they built themselves. Explore the Ocean Depths in a Homemade Submarine 2011-04-14T14:15:00Z

"Kooky and eccentric" is also a good description of Magda Sayeg, the Texas woman credited with starting the yarn bombing movement. The graffiti knitting epidemic 2010-10-10T21:00:00Z

In a landscape full of eccentric voices, his point of view can seem generic. Critic’s Notebook: Jerry Seinfeld Is Still at Home Doing Stand-Up 2012-10-14T21:56:07Z

It was only very eccentric people in the UK who listened to country music. “What’s my purpose on Earth if I’m not playing solos?”: Guitar hero Richard Thompson says every song absolutely, without question, needs one 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

But to write a diary for any extended period is an exceptional and eccentric act. Diarykeeping is an exceptional and heroic act 2012-12-30T16:00:01Z

Anderson, 45, earned his first DGA nomination for his whimsical comedy about an eccentric hotel concierge. Clint Eastwood, Richard Linklater nominated for Directors Guild Award 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

I would be inclined to welcome it as an eccentric protest against digital tyranny, but “Consuming Spirits” is so much more than that. Movie Review: ‘Consuming Spirits,’ an Animated Film by Chris Sullivan 2012-12-12T00:01:20Z

He was also a headline-making swami-entrepreneur who defied his bland Iowa origins to become one of the most renowned eccentrics of the Jazz Age. Books of The Times: ?The Great Oom,? by Robert Love, on Yoga?s Pierre Bernard 2010-04-14T22:33:00Z

Baumer was an eccentric model for both, someone for whom activism was both a life style and a form of self-expression. The Tragic Death of Mark Baumer, a Prolific Poet and Environmental Activist for the Social-Media Age 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Yet her eccentric and marvelously original art defies easy categorization. For Michelle Ellsworth, Practice Makes … More Practice 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

He is after big game, though — race and class, labor and capital, art and technology — and his aim, while eccentric, is very often true. Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The definition of Tayou's poetic process hangs between the eccentric and colourful story of everyday life and the necessity to mix human characteristics and geographies, cultures and situations, which are not easy to identify. African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z

The first half strategically reveals episodes from Moses’ dark past, and establishes his relationships with his eccentric fellow islanders as they pressure him to take the buyout. New Books by Yasmina Reza, Michael Crummey and Megan Mayhew Bergman 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

With her bird-like mannerisms and beret, Stubbs is a likable and eccentric individual whose sons are as protective of her in life as Sherlock and Watson are of her character on the telly. TV highlights 24/07/2013 2013-07-24T06:00:04Z

It’s the album’s one experiment, an eccentric exception amid the rehashed artifice. Haim, 'Days are Gone' review 2013-10-03T15:40:00Z

The relatively recent intervention of a wealthy eccentric seemed such a deliciously bizarre episode in the “life” of a building. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: 21 Great Buildings Throughout History 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

“There have been a lot of rich eccentrics supporting Bernie, too,” she said, “that he wouldn’t advertise to his base.” Alexandra Pelosi Muses on the Donors She Convinced to Talk Candidly in Her New Film 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

Fittingly, the equally nebulous sequel also acts as a standalone film, yet leaves us wanting to discover much more about the world of eternally dusky California and its grimly eccentric inhabitants. Blade Runner 2049: does it live up to the critical hype? Discuss with spoilers 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

She dresses in the same clothes, wears her hair in the same eccentric side braid as it slowly turns white. ‘The Man Without a Shadow’ review: An amnesiac you’ll never forget 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Without a trace of irony, Watts adds, "Keith's a very bohemian and eccentric person, he really is." Exile on Main St 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z

And she hasn't shied away from again encouraging the eccentric image she promotes. Lady Gaga finally hatches 'Born This Way' 2011-05-20T19:21:40Z

Capitol Records paid some $90,000 in ransom to the eccentric producer for their return. Inside the untold story of John Lennon's legal war with a Mafia-connected label owner 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

We expect to see a lot of people dressed this Halloween as Teddy Perkins, the eccentric and enigmatic character at the center of an extraordinary Season 2 episode of Donald Glover’s “Atlanta.” 8 last-minute pop-culture Halloween costumes for 2018 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Primary colors contend with more eccentric hues, such as the lime-green of the line that bisects “Dissection.” In the galleries: Step right up and see the sideshow 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Brisick offers nostalgic and often hilarious stories of a time when surfing was dominated by misfits and flamboyant eccentrics. Jamie Brisick describes Peter Drouyn's journey to 'Becoming Westerly' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

With these and other tales of palace life, fans have myriad options to revisit the eccentric characters and quirks that helped make the drama’s early seasons so compelling. Review | Attention ‘The Crown’ fanatics: Your royal education continues with these recent books 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

This charming novel about an eccentric English family that lives in the ruins of a castle bears rereading every few years and has never lost its freshness. Diane Johnson Wishes More Authors Would Write About Friendship 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

The image — bizarrely comic and mildly menacing — occurs during the later stages of “Damsel,” but it handily encapsulates the tone of a movie that turns the classic western into something wackily eccentric and entertainingly original. Review: This ‘Damsel’ Needs No Saving 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

If Ventura is your eccentric uncle holding forth at a backyard barbecue, then Mark S. Ferrara is your affable liberal professor who is not so secretly known to take a puff or two. Marijuana won big on election night: Four books to help process our new reality 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

“I’m not trying to be eccentric, I promise!” How Julie Byrne’s Astral Folk Music Took Flight 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

This is no ordinary performance, and so it proves in this teasingly eccentric and genre-defying piece from National Theatre Wales and Neon Neon. Praxis Makes Perfect – review 2013-05-03T16:47:55Z

The coming season, the 10th under artistic director Kurt Beattie's leadership, will open with the previously announced musical "Grey Gardens," about an eccentric mother and daughter profiled in the film of the same title. Alan Ayckbourn, premieres pop up in ACT's 2013 season 2012-09-19T22:15:04Z

They were careful to keep the old red vinyl stools lining the 40-foot counter, and lightly reworked the big, eccentric menu, which includes what many argue is the best tuna melt in town. Diners Are Fed Up With Minimal Service. Will a Little Warmth Win Them Back? 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

Alexandre Koberidze’s eccentric meta-fairytale is about a couple whose budding romance is scuppered by a curse that changes their appearance – set against a background in which a city prepares for the World Cup. Berlin film festival 2021 roundup: the most impressive selection in years 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

A hugely underrated late cold war conspiracy thriller that makes eccentric use of locations from Berlin to DC and Chicago. 'My favourite forgotten film' – you recommend your best streaming gems 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

They concern her tragicomic adventures and those of her sister Maybonne, her beloved, emotionally troubled brother Freddie, their chronically enraged mother and many other neighborhood eccentrics. Lynda Barry: ‘Everything: Part I’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The committee criticized the proposed creation of an “attenuated psychosis syndrome”—a sort of poor-man’s psychosis with less severe symptoms—“as an opportunity to stigmatize eccentric people.” My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her biography reads like a checklist to the life of a certain kind of eccentric writer—a life of measuring out in coffee spoons, punctuated by enthusiasms. The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

But he finds a kindred spirit in the eccentric, artistic and lonely Simon McGurk. ‘The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk,’ a One-Man Show 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Attempts to follow in Mr. Bourdain’s footsteps are typically orchestrated by small, independent, sometimes eccentric tour operators. Can Food Tours Stray From the Beaten Path Without Ruining the Experience? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Others, like a girl who suddenly vanishes from high school in communist Cuba, are simply unacceptably eccentric, according to the authorities. From a Cuban novelist, the story of mankind’s quest for safe haven 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

"No one will ever forget the man with the eccentric hair who became so connected with the murder of Joanna Yeates," said Morgan, Bafta-winning writer of Frost/Nixon and The Queen. Yeates landlord focus of ITV drama 2013-11-05T06:39:34Z

Mary the sly eccentric, Madeline the serene grown-up and Pamela the narcissistic beauty materialize both as fascinating specimens of their class — inhabiting great houses, commanding scores of servants — but also as complex, flawed individuals. Review | These three sisters were the one percent of the one percent — before it all crashed 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Only for a moment does Kiarostami display his most eccentric tic, cancelling the shot-reverse-shot convention by keeping the camera on the listener, not the speaker. Film review: Certified Copy 2010-09-02T21:35:00Z

NAKAMATS,” but the film certainly establishes Mr. Nakamatsu’s credentials as an eccentric, not to mention as a Svengali to middle-aged Japanese women. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z

People might look at the eccentric character and think she’s too much, but Mitzi looks at her life and knows it’s not enough. Meet the Newer, Bolder Michelle Williams 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

The stock characters and plot devices of teen comedies transposed to the eccentric setting provide Park and Roessler plenty of fuel for skewering our off-kilter world. In Munich, Young Directors Offer Horrors Both Real and Fantastical 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Whenever Americans attach the label “cult” to a religious group, they reveal more about their own anxieties than about the theological eccentrics themselves. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

What you’ve seen him in: The sci-fi romantic comedy “About Time,” eccentric indie “Frank” and the World War II drama “Unbroken.” 5 up-and-comers to watch in 2015 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

It’s enough to make you long for a truly eccentric billionaire, someone who will at least offer a thrilling spectacle in exchange for becoming entrapped in his thought prison. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Radziwill and Beard visited Grey Gardens with the vague idea of making a documentary about the history of the Hamptons, perhaps narrated by, as Radziwill puts it, “my extremely eccentric aunt”. That Summer: the story behind the 'other' Grey Gardens documentary 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

At Dolce & Gabbana, the show notes were labeled "eccentric tailoring," and that wasn't a reference to the choice of Bryan Ferry as inspiration. Menswear on the European runways 2011-01-24T19:08:53Z

It's not such a negative to be seen as eccentric or outside the norm anymore. Yakima shoe show strolls through history 2011-02-12T04:44:01Z

Yes, it's a gentle with a cast of charming eccentrics and a premise that's hokey as hell: highly-strung New York Jewish doctor gets stuck in small town Alaska – with hilarious consequences! Your next box set: Northern Exposure 2010-10-22T07:00:00Z

The good is obvious: bigger gigs, unexpected record sales and the adoration of a growing fan base that digs the band's wobbly, pleasingly eccentric brand of pop music. Unexpected success for Alt-J brings good and bad 2013-03-22T14:49:08Z

You see this in eccentric bits of decoration, like the stuffed peacock that perches on the upstairs bar. Chaiwali, an Indian Restaurant That Feels Like Home 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Self-taught, eccentric, and famously reclusive, artist Joseph Cornell seldom strayed from his home state of New York. London’s Royal Academy of Arts Showcases the Work of Joseph Cornell 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

"The way we look at it, is Anna in this opera is a fabulous eccentric who fell on bad times," Thomas told Reuters Television before the Thursday night premiere of the first of six performances. Anna Nicole Smith: big in life, now big in opera 2011-02-18T03:17:03Z

It was, from the start, a more eccentric and spartan approach to Buddhism than the Indian-rooted traditions that preceded it. The Lessons of Nothingness From Maverick Zen Monks 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Don’t use singletons, bores or eccentrics as fillers. Put them with like-minded people.” ‘Sit all the bores together’ – secrets of the VIP party planners 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

It is supremely beautiful, and confirms the continuing adaptability of Frank Lloyd Wright’s eccentric Guggenheim building, and the skill of the museum’s design staff. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Mixing Symbolist dreaminess with Post-Impressionist muscle, Stettheimer rendered her family and New York’s interwar avant-garde as charmed, eccentric, usually androgynous caricatures in expanses of brilliant color. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

If schools were to adopt this eccentric proposal, what 50 titles should they start with? Should children read 50 books a year? 2011-03-22T16:47:17Z

On the upside, such areas have space for eccentrics and absurdity. Tragic, funny and weird: Donald Glover's Atlanta is a new high for TV comedy 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

In such books, the author introduces complex ideas through a guided tour of interviews with, and profiles of, the lively and eccentric humans who espouse them. A Rose Is a Rose Is … Your Experience of a Rose? A Writer Plumbs Consciousness 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

These categories may at first seem eccentric, the objects themselves appealing chiefly to the extravagant tastes of a privileged ruling class. Review | The Met is the world’s greatest art museum. Three under-the-radar shows confirm it — again. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

The color of the hats can look a bit off because of the unusual palette, which is Mr. Levring’s most eccentric and original filmmaking choice. Review: In ‘The Salvation,’ a Hero Lays Waste, Western Style (Danish, Too) 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Gaiman was raised on Doctor Who and mentored by Douglas Adams and there are traces of both here, as the tone shifts from eccentric to scary often in the same scene. Neverwhere: box set review 2013-05-02T15:22:25Z

Wiig doesn’t exactly fit the mold of a traditional leading lady — she is more like America’s eccentric aunt than its sweetheart — but she was, in fact, working on a screenplay starring herself when Apatow asked. Can Kristen Wiig Turn On the Charm? 2011-05-01T08:30:02Z

It was inspired by the sign for a Mexican restaurant, but it also looks like an eccentric cactus, or the key to a windup toy. The delight of 'Birdy Croissant' and Anna Fasshauer's other magical, metal creations 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Going to the fair is like visiting a great, eccentric museum abounding in wonders and curiosities but organized according to no discernibly rational plan. Fine Art and Antiques Show at Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

A less eccentric idea, capellini with artichokes, still pulled off some surprises because Mr. Fraser got such bright and lively flavor out of the artichokes. From Burgers to Sundaes, the Loyal Plays to the Crowd 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

In his hands, the English visitors are sometimes eccentric, sometimes arrogant, but always interesting. 'Prairie Fever': the highborn British and the American West 2012-06-06T21:19:18Z

Of course the parallel is not exact; this was James' personal, eccentric, interior version of 3-D, you might say. George Lucas' pathetic 3-D "Star Wars" re-release 2010-09-29T22:01:00Z

Earlier this week, I clicked play on a new series called "Welcome to Flatch," a mockumentary-style sitcom — based on the BBC series "This Country" — about the eccentric inhabitants of a small Midwestern town. I can't stop thinking about Cosmo's early aughts, ill-fated foray into diet yogurt 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Not so Edward Gorey, who was almost as eccentric as his ghoulishly humorous drawings, with their mysterious black-clad ladies, long-suffering children and ominous menageries. Review: Peering Behind the Whimsically Ghoulish ‘Gorey’ 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

It opened with Shostakovich’s slightly eccentric Symphony No. 6, written in 1936, after a serious strain in the composer’s relations with the Soviet regime. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z

Today, designer anoraks and track pants, sulking hipsters and gorgeous eccentrics are part of the fashion universe here. Perspective | Chanel says goodbye to Karl Lagerfeld gracefully, in a stunning winter wonderland 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

“Everyone says it was an eccentric building, but my memory is it was deeply romantic,” Mr. Coley said. Glasgow’s Artists Mourn After Fire Rips Through City’s Creative Heart 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

But it fits with “eccentric” work such as 2010’s “Tabloid,” which looked at coverage of the infamous “Mormon sex in chains” case. Erroll Morris creates ambitious documentary series for ESPN 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

If Mr. Davis is eccentric, he is also human, and never more so than since last year, when his wife, Shamsi, died. Colin Davis Brings London Symphony to Carnegie Hall 2011-10-16T01:25:19Z

Again you get the impression, though he might deny it, that Ford has never been bothered by being regarded as eccentric. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Stettheimer, who died in 1944, at 72, rendered her nearest and dearest in her scenes and portraits as charmed, eccentric and usually androgynous caricatures in thick expanses of unexpected hues. A Case for the Greatness of Florine Stettheimer 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The making of the film was often derailed by Brando's frequent changes to the text and his eccentric character, played with a broad Irish brogue. Elliott Kastner obituary 2010-07-29T17:26:00Z

There she becomes attached to a magnetic New York heiress and an eccentric dorm matron who stick around for Finny’s coming of age, which in contemporary fashion spans two decades. New Books by Ivan Doig, Ayelet Waldman and Lily King 2010-07-14T22:50:00Z

Outside of the uncalled-for bullying, Jessel's sarcastic delivery, her eccentric fashions and her seemingly connected status in the New York fashion scene have really cemented her as a star in the making. Why Jessel Taank, the first Indian housewife, is the breakout star of "Real Housewives of New York" 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

Inisherin may not be a real place, but its eccentric characters, rugged vistas and vivid local legends make it an attractive tourist destination all the same. ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Review: Giving Your Friend the Finger 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

That was because of this absolutely brilliant and eccentric director, primarily a designer, who was one of the triumvirate who ran the Citizens Theater in Glasgow, a very famous repertory theater. Director Maria Aitken, keeping Coward’s blithe spirit alive

A fan-made prequel to Back To The Future imagines just how the series’ eccentric Doc Brown got the fuel to power his time traveling DeLorean—and does so in extremely dramatic fashion. Watch the Trailer for the Fake Back to the Future Prequel That Needs to Be Made 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Alongside his feature film career, Demme indulged a for the odd, the eccentric and the underground. Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme dies aged 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

An inevitable Olympic theme for this eccentric annual amalgam of characters and casters. This week's new events 2012-06-08T23:05:32Z

Aside from the fabrics, two things brought this collection forward: the eccentric flair of the pantsuits and the elongated line of those sleeveless coats. Fashion Review: Collections from Milan Fashion Week, Prada, Fendi, MaxMara and Versace 2012-02-24T23:55:00Z

Seeking a rational explanation for his oddities, he takes up with an eccentric lone researcher, then joins an ill-fated scientific expedition to discover the nonexistent Northwest Passage. ‘The Age of Ice’: locked into an eternity of cold 2013-08-08T19:44:22Z

His eccentric behaviour grew increasingly erratic until, finally, he seemed to vanish. Intermission by Owen Martell – review 2013-02-22T20:00:01Z

British TV viewers are relatively used to seeing irredeemably eccentric characters and TV shows that don't condescend to the audience, but on American TV in 2003, this was all wildly subversive. Arrested Development season four: the return of the greatest sitcom ever 2013-05-20T16:13:33Z

He did not dress like an impoverished bohemian artist but like an eccentric grandee. Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

An enchanting place of eccentric celebration, Apfelbaum’s secular chapel threads the contradictory needle in surprising and pleasurable ways. Polly Apfelbaum's fallen paintings and beads of devotion in her secular chapel of abstract art 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

I am not an eccentric, and I am not some sort of multitrillionaire just interested in buying clothes.” The Year in Style: Daphne Guinness, Fashion?s Wild Child 2010-12-31T04:15:37Z

She’s an idiosyncratic traditionalist, with a high and nasal voice, and sometimes she backs away from big notes abruptly, for dramatic effect or for fear that too much virtuosity would undermine her eccentric charms. Music Review: Elizabeth Cook, With Crew of Characters in Tow 2010-06-22T22:04:00Z

Key West is one of the most eccentric and seductive cities in the nation. These Are the Friendliest Cities in the World 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

"As a gallimaufry of the funny, technical-scientific and deadly earnest, Red Plenty ranks as one of the strangest books ever written on the Soviet Union . . . an eccentric delight; absorbing, pleasingly digressive and superbly written." Critical eye 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

There are few jokes with the classical structure breaking down the difference between men and women, but more investigation into her own eccentric personality. Taylor Tomlinson: A Comic With the Confidence of a Star 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

But it wasn't the eccentric name which spurred me to actually bake the cookies. These three-ingredient peanut butter cookies are hands-down the best cookies in the world 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z

Vida’s San Francisco is ramshackle and eccentric, home to heiresses but also tide pools of counterculture backwash. Her Best Friend Claims They Witnessed a Sex Crime. She Has Her Doubts. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Really hard question to answer, because to be honest, each of them was unique and eccentric and devoted. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a treat to visit Morris’s hippie-ish 1960s childhood, where we meet his parents, two older sisters, a rowdy cast of relatives and other eccentrics. Review | Mark Morris bares his soul in a refreshingly raw and inspiring memoir 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, Frank Oz’s Yoda did not require three movies to make his syntactically eccentric mark on the original Star Wars trilogy. Disney's dilemma: digitally resurrect Carrie Fisher or write her out of Star Wars? 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

It's a fine story, one in keeping with the eccentric Britishness of the show, as it concerns both a global alien threat and a nice village green. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-07-30T07:00:00Z

Ms. Ripley will play Sook, one of a family of eccentrics helping to raise a young boy – the Capote stand-in – in 1930s Alabama, with the plot set around the celebration of a traditional Southern Christmas. Alice Ripley to Star in 'A Christmas Memory' Off Broadway 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Tess lives in a pretty wooden house in a quiet, leafy part of Connecticut and writes decorous murder mysteries solved by the eccentric gray-haired ladies of the Willow Grove Knitting Society. ‘Big Driver,’ a Stephen King Story, Comes to Lifetime 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Renowned for his facial piercings, heavy makeup and eccentric devil-horned hair cut, Flint played a major role in establishing the credibility of dance and electronic music. Music and motorbikes mark UK funeral of Prodigy frontman Keith Flint 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

It’s on the grisly end of the spectrum — victims’ mouths sewn shut, that kind of thing — with studiously eccentric details like Malcolm’s self-shackling, and the Persian carpet and bookshelves in Martin’s apartment-size cell. Fall TV Reviewed: Detectives, Sci-Fi and an Attempt at Romance 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

From the outset, Stephen’s “eccentric” family made no secret of the fact that they didn’t think the marriage would survive. Jane Hawking: ‘There were four of us in our marriage’ 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Moore led the programme, The Sky at Night, with his unmistakable brand of eccentric authority for more than 50 years, the longest a television host has ever presented the same programme. Sir Patrick Moore: the eccentric amateur who became a TV star 2012-12-09T20:31:32Z

As a Dalit, he belongs to a caste once considered “untouchable,” and is treated by the judge and the prosecutor as an eccentric rabble-rouser and public nuisance. Review: ‘Court’ Is Chaitanya Tamhane’s Unsparing Look at Justice in India 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Art and artists, she says, were always part of the mix, even in her early childhood years in eccentric Ojai of the 1960s. With bold brush strokes and luminous neon, L.A. painter Mary Weatherford comes into her own 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

But there is a price to cutting what appears unnecessary or eccentric, and in this case, it would be too high. Theater Review: ?A Map of Virtue,? by Erin Courtney, From 13P Company 2012-02-17T18:07:22Z

The people are eccentric and hale and smiley — maybe too smiley. Review: ‘Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life’ Revives a Snow Globe Town 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

As the title — typical of Mr. Thompson’s eccentric spelling — indicates, flashlights, wielded by Mr. Thompson, provided most of the illumination. Dance Review: An Otherworldly Wildness This Way Comes 2011-01-30T22:12:14Z

Certain leitmotifs emerge to form the pillars of Bill’s eccentric personality. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Given how eccentric the musician was, and the mysterious conditions of his passing, that was probably inevitable. Painkillers and Prince: Opioids now the focus of death investigation as health rumors swirl 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wu, on the other hand, is many things, but he is no eccentric. Fashion Review: Jason Wu, Rag & Bone and Suno Show at New York Fashion Week 2014-02-10T00:14:58Z

Jamie Lidell This willfully eccentric British soul singer has long sanctioned a dissonance between his albums, which skew nifty and earnest, and his performances, which go more for manic sprawl. Playlist: Music From Kris Kristofferson, Jamie Lidell and ?Treme? 2010-05-16T14:06:00Z

Future’s ambitious and eccentric first album, “Pluto,” sold only 40,000 copies in its first week, a middling debut. In Atlanta, Where Hip-Hop Meets Strip Clubs 2012-09-05T17:39:14Z

First, within the context of a comedy about eccentric bureaucrats, it’s developed a believable, relatable story about two ambitious people making a relationship work without sacrificing their careers. TV Tonight: Parks and Recreation Goes Big and Goes Home 2012-09-20T15:55:18Z

Its lessons about human nature are thought-provoking, but perhaps not as memorable as its motley, eccentric display of humanity in extremis. In ‘Snowpiercer,’ the Train Trip to End All Train Trips 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

But their story was largely viewed as an eccentric anomaly, not a thing people made TV shows about. How hoarding and tidying up defined the decade 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

And when extraordinary things are done in unison, not just by one eccentric but by a large group, the effect is amplified. Critic?s Notebook: Fasten Your Seat Belts And Embrace the City 2010-10-14T15:49:00Z

“This eccentric, downright lovable quintet,” John Rockwell of The New York Times wrote in 1978, “provides about the most amusing, danceable experience in town.” The Superbly Original, Gloriously Weird B-52’s Say Farewell to the Road 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

“In other words, it’s a passionate treatment of one of Robinson’s longtime preoccupations” and “a dense, eccentric book of profound and generous gifts.” 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Fine, as long as they retain its eccentric character, keep the queues down – and there's still plenty of room in those hot tubs. Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire 2011-08-15T14:01:32Z

Though friendly with their immediate neighbors, "the boys" generally remain isolated on their property — their primitive view of life, not to mention their stench, made them the local eccentrics. 'Kings of the Earth': three eccentric brothers, a primitive life, a mysterious death 2010-07-07T20:47:00Z

To help her achieve this, her friends buy her a series of sessions with an eccentric lifestyle coach. Perkins to create sitcom for BBC2 2012-08-23T10:49:23Z

Yet if Mr. Wiseau is a bona fide eccentric, he proves to be not an especially interesting one in this incarnation. Review: In ‘The Disaster Artist,’ How to Fail at Moviemaking 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

His playing is not controversial or eccentric; his demeanor is modest and unremarkable. Review: Denes Varjon, a Hungarian Pianist, at Zankel Hall 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Busby was struggling with addiction and the rent, and Stanley Bard, the hotel’s longtime manager and eccentric gatekeeper, gave him an ultimatum. What It’s Like Self-Isolating in a Studio Apartment 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Big cutout shapes — round of corner, uneven of edge and suggestive of large wafers, illegible letters or eccentric throw pillows — are stapled to cardboard surfaces from which similar shapes have been cut. Art In Review: GUY GOODWIN: ?Recent Works? 2012-03-08T22:20:43Z

The role of James is less showy than that of the charismatic Tristan or the eccentric Siegfried, a part that West said he embraced with alacrity, “because I don’t get to be funny very often.” ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Heals Cows and Soothes Souls 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z

I was mildly eccentric, because, well, I was a cartoonist. How I Became a New Yorker Cartoonist 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Barbarisi writes with gusto and portrays the eccentrics he encounters with a candor that never quite slips into mockery; he sums up Beep as “a Renaissance man of the frivolous.” Review | They all think they’re Indiana Jones in ‘Chasing the Thrill,’ a tale of a real-life treasure hunt 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Take Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata, a piece that during Liszt’s years as a touring virtuoso was widely considered an incoherent, unplayable creation of an old, deaf and eccentric composer. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

Any lack of logic seems appropriate in honoring Ohr, a true eccentric who dubbed himself the Mad Potter of Biloxi and was known for his delightfully misshapen, brightly colored pottery. The 16 Best Small-Town Museums in the U.S. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

It was a very eccentric upbringing, with theme rooms and stuff. Art Was There, Through Courtship, Love and Labor 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

Toy-Box Trio will be joined by Mr. and Mrs. Muffins, an equally eccentric outfit whose sound ranges from ethereal bossa nova to quirky chamber pop. Toy-Box Trio creates a lilting, lurching soundtrack to a carnivalesque world 2010-06-11T19:45:00Z

Some familiar faces return, including those of Charlie Day and Burn Gorman as eccentric scientists — one of whose eccentricities have grown pronouncedly more extreme. Review: In ‘Pacific Rim Uprising,’ Scary Monsters and Super Robots 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

Or, to pick a more eccentric, surprising and artificial example, like Governors Island’s. Governors Island as Playground for the Arts 2010-08-13T00:29:00Z

She also has fun with Meta's menagerie of eccentric uncles, including Uncle Schorsch, who is convinced he is really a Venetian nobleman driven underground by the Vatican and the Freemasons. Nowhere Ending Sky by Marlen Haushofer – review 2013-07-13T07:30:01Z

These characters are a series of moderately eccentric poses presented without much wit or psychological insight. Review | Anne Tyler’s ‘Redhead by the Side of the Road’ is light on drama. Not that we could handle more drama now anyway. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

The Slant Step is an eccentric, near-mythic object in the annals of 1960s Bay Area “funk” art. Has art's Slant Step mystery finally been solved? 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Through the 1960s and into the 70s, he became a popular, not to say eccentric, performer on the British folk scene. Diz Disley obituary 2010-04-15T17:43:00Z

The Zero Theorem, a fantasy starring Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz as an eccentric computer genius trying to discover the meaning of life, is about to start shooting in Bucharest. Matt Damon to make bald cameo in Terry Gilliam film 2012-10-11T10:47:08Z

There, they meet assorted gentle eccentrics, each further enhancing the nubby realism. ‘3 Faces’ Review: On the Road in Iran (and Off It, Too) 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

With his folksy style, sharp drawl and eccentric personality, Brown fits the mold of the distinct Southern characters who populate cable TV. Kentucky man catches snapping turtles, TV audience 2012-06-01T15:39:18Z

The two then proceed to run, slide and gyrate all over the set in an epic reenactment of the video’s eccentric choreography, even letting Iggy Azalea in on the fun at one point. SNL: Watch Jim Carrey Dance to Sia and Impersonate Matthew McConaughey 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

One of the pleasures of “Fun Home” is the way it manages to shift seamlessly to a child’s perspective and present as normal some of the more eccentric aspects of Alison’s upbringing. Review | ‘Fun Home’ is pure musical satisfaction 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Joseph Ireland, a Dupont Circle designer, also praises eccentric holiday decor. Small-space living: No room for a Christmas tree? Embrace the unexpected. 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

It's a quirky, ad-free station playing a great range of music – the breakfast show features 1930s southern blues – and has some likably eccentric presenters. PM 2010-04-21T14:25:00Z

A resident of Milwaukee, he was eccentric but far from unsophisticated. 2010-02-06T06:34:00Z

It was the oldest story in the annals of celebrity: a star becomes ever more reclusive and eccentric as his fame grows beyond measure. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Or is the film just an odd duck, too eccentric and narratively hobbled to reach its expected fanbase? High-concept satire Downsizing is dwarfed by its white saviour narrative 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Christopher Gibbs, the London antiques dealer, is a sort of legend among the transplanted eccentrics. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

The most eccentric works in the show are examples of the hundreds of heavy rubber raincoats that he scavenged, personalized with additional buttons, patches and studs and occasionally wore to feel protected and in control. ‘Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic’ and ‘Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

On the first question, Johnson held the eccentric view that since secession wasn’t constitutional, it had, essentially, never happened. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

When Daniel takes over an antiquarian bookstore with three equally eccentric partners, he discovers a community of dealers who secretly dabble in the trafficking of human body parts. ‘The Antiquarian,’ a Macabre Novel About a Search for Truth 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

The most complimentary thing you can hope to be called if you are a woman who doesn’t conform to societal expectations is the E-word: eccentric. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Her character was somebody who was being played as this stock maiden lady in the office — kind of ditsy, kind of eccentric. Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Come soon, though, as oil money rapidly transforms Stanley’s ethnic, economic and social character, driving development in this tiny, eccentric village of about 2,000 year-round residents. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z

But I prefer another organizing principle, my own, based not on the theories but the thinkers: let us name these three types “incorrigible eccentrics,” “delusional hermits” and “oh, no.” Essays That Make Sense of the Infinite and the Infinitesimal 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

He appeared in The Sleeping Quarters of Sophia, a play about split personalities, and delivered a succession of disciplined but eccentric performances for the company over the next 10 years. Eiji Kusuhara obituary 2010-05-27T17:58:00Z

A delightful alternative universe to Sri Lanka, fashioned by an eccentric native. In the Hills of Sri Lanka’s Tea Country 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The eccentric list of recipes stemmed from a thread started by writer Maya Kosoff, who challenged the Twitterverse to share the most “weird inexplicable retro family recipes that end up on your Thanksgiving table.” 'Weird' Thanksgiving side dishes go viral in horrifying Twitter thread 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Buying The Faust Tapes for 48p on the eccentric new Virgin Records in the early 70s changed me forever: buying Graham Collier's Mosaics album for a cut price 80p made a huge impact as well. Paul Morley on free jazz composer and musician John Surman 2010-03-26T12:35:00Z

“I loved everything about it, the characters, the weird eccentric world, and the color of it, and it really stuck in my mind.” ‘The Red Shoes’ Takes the Stage 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Recently, Watson got so pro that, along with chefs from the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, it published a cookbook, an eccentric 231-page tome crowded with what its creators call “recipes for innovation.” Meet Chef Watson, IBM’s futuristic foodie robot 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

The man was clearly creepy – or, to use the British term, "eccentric" – and yet that was part of his appeal. Sick of US news? Don't worry: there are lots of other things to discuss 2012-11-06T16:10:59Z

The show is a Noah’s ark of eccentric creatures, characters and objects — animal, human, animistic — that surreptitiously deliver social commentary. Gaetano Pesce: ‘One-of-a-Kind Iconic Works, 1967-2015’ 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

But he is, to put it mildly, eccentric. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

As they have passed away he's turned to used bookshops for material, stories of eccentric people who lived through interesting times. John Lawton, British mystery writer, talks about 'A Lily of the Field' and Inspector Troy 2010-10-15T20:57:00Z

Around the hits, their albums — notably “Odessa” — floated larger musical and poetic concepts and more eccentric productions. How the Bee Gees Stayed Alive 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

But Storyboard P, of Brooklyn, in “Dream Chaser,” was the evening’s superlative eccentric. Dance Review: ‘Breakin’ Convention’ Shows a New York Style’s Diversity 2013-06-17T21:38:11Z

This collection’s editor, Andrew M. Brown, worries that true eccentrics are becoming rarer. A Book of Cheeky Obituaries Highlights ‘Eccentric Lives’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

But mostly he’s a walking anime character, an eccentric in presentation far more than in sound. Critic’s Notebook: Future, Young Scooter, Trinidad James and Atlanta Rap 2013-02-02T01:50:26Z

De Bont painstakingly lingers on its creepy statues, iron gates and precarious spiral staircase, and the ornate and wonderfully eccentric design upstages the actors in almost every scene. ‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ on Netflix, Is a Family Drama With Scares 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Overseeing Clyde, Alan and the others in a small intrepid band of Pluto-seekers is Constance Lowell, based on the rich and eccentric widow of famed astronomer Percival Lowell. 'Percival's Planet': Michael Byers' novelistic take on the discovery of Pluto 2010-07-28T22:13:00Z

In this romp of a novel, an eager young woman fakes her way into a job at a very eccentric dental practice. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The songs seem to pass through her body as she delivers them in an eccentric theatrical style that includes parlando passages. Music Review: Keeping Torch Songs Ablaze 2010-11-21T22:34:00Z

Reich's eccentric device can be seen as a prism through which to look at the conflicts and controversies of his era, which witnessed an unprecedented politicisation of sex. Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love 2011-07-07T12:15:01Z

The Barclay Brass filled the church with its own indefinable power that night, more austere than Rush but no less eccentric or exploratory. With the Barclay Brass, D.C. takes an outsized role in the small world of classical brass music 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

But in the recent pop mainstream these female artists are far outweighed by the eccentrics, the freaks, the adventuresome. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z

Once he meets a nearby eccentric, he’s granted access to an alternate universe. 33 Works of Fiction and Poetry Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Playing a bohemian painter, when that occupation could seem a gentleman's calling, Forsythe is surrounded by a trio of Vermont eccentrics, all of whom believe they may have killed Harry. Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92 2010-04-03T05:20:00Z

The documentary sometimes gets on a jag of cutting back and forth between eccentric camera angles and symbolic still life—a lamp, a teacup—to distracting effect. Ethan Hawke’s Life-Changing Music Lesson 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

This thriller transports us into the mind of the eccentric horror writer Shirley Jackson. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Shirley’ and Yvonne Orji 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z

She “hung out with the eccentric arty kids,” she said, and took photography classes, doing a series of female nudes for one. Liz Goldwyn, Hollywood Royal Family Member, Takes to Filmmaking 2014-01-12T02:48:43Z

Generally, there seems to be a low tolerance for anything that is eccentric, over the top, lacking in traditional skills or simply forgotten. Art Review: ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe’ Opens at MoMA 2013-08-22T22:04:13Z

She was an eccentric editor in the mode of Diana Vreeland. Anna Piaggi, Italian Fashion Editor, Dies at 81 2012-08-07T21:27:03Z

But it’s wonderful to see some truly eccentric ballet — and to see it full of lively, musical steps. BalletX Flaunts Its Seriously Absurd Style 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

But by “Part III,” the “Godfather” series had served its purpose; the gangster movie had evolved yet again, into something even more grimy, eccentric and alive. How ‘Goodfellas’ and the Gangster Class of 1990 Changed Hollywood 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

In an earlier era of revival, the Bangles were a band like these, too, a few years before “Walk Like an Egyptian” painted them forever as pop eccentrics. New Music: New Albums by Dum Dum Girls and the Bangles 2011-10-03T22:39:47Z

I've always felt the world expects less of me as I get older so I'm free to be more and more eccentric. Marian Keyes: 'I thought I'd never be able to write again' 2013-04-21T08:00:17Z

Instead, there are only inventive forms made from eccentric materials, which Cameron-Weir plainly likes. Lead jackets, copper snakeskins: The sculptural inventions of Elaine Cameron-Weir 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

“The academy is filled with eccentric people,” she says, “because they spend years studying some obscure thing and then you toss them into a committee and say, ‘Everybody get along.’ Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

It will include an installation of five full-size billiard tables based on the eccentric, sharply canted one in Man Ray’s Surrealist painting “La Fortune” of 1938. The New Season: At Museums, de Kooning, Maurizio Cattelan and Sherrie Levine 2011-09-18T04:00:09Z

On the Wikipedia page for Suicide Squeeze Records, Bay Area rap eccentric Lil B is curiously listed as one of the Seattle label’s artists — alongside Northwest indie titans Elliott Smith and Modest Mouse. Suicide Squeeze: Seattle music label defies risks, turns 20 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Tellingly, both are strong female figures forging boldly eccentric and totally distinctive musical paths around their genres – it's no wonder that Abdel-Hamid identifies with them. Ikonika: the woman pushing dubstep forward 2010-04-08T22:20:00Z

In addition to his role on Taxi, Andy Kaufman was an eccentric performance artist who often staged elaborate pranks that entertained, confused and at times frustrated his fans. Comedian Kaufman 'faked his death' 2013-11-14T11:59:34Z

Following its premiere Sunday night, “Jojo Rabbit” was hailed as a masterpiece, an eccentric opus and a worthy heir to Charlie Chaplin’s “The Dictator” by some. Waititi’s ‘Jojo Rabbit’ finds a mixed response in Toronto 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

"I said, 'They're nuts.' But then when I started singing, I realized how eccentric you can get." Johnny Mathis — time for a full-scale comeback? 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

“At the same time, we have very posh or eccentric Korean buyers coming.” Life and Design, Grounded in Pigalle 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Across the board, many worked in large scale, often physically eccentric ways. Painting From the 1980s, When Brash Met Flash 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Cataloging her aspirations and her setbacks, Ms. Brown, a long-limbed British retropop eccentric, painted the picture of a striving outsider vindicated by recent success. Music Review: V. V. Brown?s Parasol Pop at Bowery Ballroom 2010-04-29T21:11:00Z

The characters in “Kentucky” may be wildly eccentric and speak with a twang, but they are otherwise people, coping as best they can with the detritus of disappointed lives. A fractured family tries to piece itself together in 'Kentucky' 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

But the program’s other two offerings, “If You Try” and “Tenderizer,” are — while entirely and wonderfully eccentric — important contributions to dance theater. Review: The Spirit of Hitchcock, Distilled Into Dance 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Andrews’ best work is an eccentric view of himself teaching his young daughter to swim. 'London Calling' at the Getty and the tension between abstract and figurative painting 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

But the most chaotic clips got the widest circulation, and critics would later point out that Cruise's behavior seemed considerably less eccentric with proper context. 20 memorable moments from talk show history 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

It’s oozing with the sort of ingredients that cause a sugar rush of emotional associations: Paris, Provence, charming book stores, eccentric landladies, lost loves, even cats. ‘The Little Paris Bookshop,’ by Nina George, exudes all things French 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it's the project of deeply eccentric do-it-yourself builder? Gallery shows: Candy-colored botanica, forlornly ephemeral houses 2011-11-03T20:06:04Z

The fair’s website helpfully traces this word back to the Art Brut champion and author Roger Cardinal around 1972, acknowledging that it was most often applied to art by “psychotics, mediums and eccentrics.” Art Review: The Outsider Art Fair Features a Global Vision 2014-05-08T21:52:59Z

It’s the first album by the soul eccentric Frank Ocean, a singer and songwriter who is signed to Island Def Jam. Playlist: Tumblr Soul, Rocker Country, Teenage Tartness 2011-03-11T15:35:16Z

The subplot with Linden's fiance grew sour quickly, and didn't seem well-thought-out to begin with; the politician subplot grew even sillier, with free throws in the apartment of an eccentric Seattle billionaire. A former fan cools on 'The Killing' 2011-06-18T09:31:05Z

But sometimes he skews his customary style of perfectionist documentary with an eccentric detail. After the Brexit Vote, Mark Neville Looks at Life in “Little Britain” 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

The eccentric genius of the show is difficult to describe. Lucy Mangan on Arrested Development 2011-02-08T08:00:02Z

At a time of endless half-truths and moral shilly-shallying, Morris's eccentric integrity shines out. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

That's certainly true for Johnson, 19, who summed up the fan family as an extension of Jackson's eccentric life. A year later, Jackson fans still out in force 2010-06-23T16:39:00Z

It has a sweet opening line and an eccentric shape. Adventurous violinist Leila Josefowicz to make a Seattle appearance 2011-03-31T20:38:06Z

Mr. Haverland was reminded of the 14 outbuildings Philip Johnson planted around his Glass House — an eccentric architectural theme park. Big Names, Tiny Homes 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

She was the third generation of Suckleys to live in the house since 1852, and she remained there as it reached a remarkable state of eccentric but cheerful decay. T Magazine: Ghosts of the Hudson Valley 2012-12-19T21:46:44Z

The film is beautifully directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and co-stars Nicholas Hoult as Nikola Tesla, the eccentric third participant in the race, who memorably died broke and alone in a hotel room in New York. 'I didn’t want to do an ITV drama': Matthew Macfadyen on making it big in the US 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

The Bruce Lacey Experience, Camden Arts Centre, NW3, to 16 Sep, camdenartscentre.org The eccentric artist and Goon Show veteran – whose robotic sculptures were a 1960s fixture – is ripe for rediscovery. London 2012 event listings 28 July: what's on during the Olympics 2012-07-27T12:45:12Z

During the postwar period, Colette’s public image softened: She was a famous eccentric, known as much for her love of cats and creature comforts as for her work. The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

Born in 1961 and brought up in Birmingham, Billingham's early exposure to crime fiction came via an eccentric maths teacher who read Sherlock Holmes stories to his class, and from 1970s TV cops. A life in writing: Mark Billingham 2012-08-03T21:55:08Z

Instead, the everyday world is made vivid and strange, rendered in a series of sketches and compositions by an artist with an eccentric and unerring eye. ‘Goodbye to Language,’ the Latest From Jean-Luc Godard 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

The prize panel called the book "beautifully written", and "a rich and astute evocation of a time and a place", recalling a childhood "at once eccentric and endearingly ordinary." Paperboy wins inaugural prize for gay men's books 2010-12-01T13:41:00Z

For a straight-to-the-internet age, he is an unmediated presence — a tough talker and an in-the-clouds dreamer, a visual eccentric who deploys mystery to his advantage. Lil Uzi Vert, a Hip-Hop Star Beyond Gatekeepers 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

He oversaw subsequent editions through the 1990s and was credited with mitigating Mr. Kobbé’s turgid prose and eccentric arrangement of entries. George Lascelles, Lord Harewood, Dies at 88; Wrote Opera Reference 2011-07-26T22:29:27Z

Visitors from Italy and Portland, Ore., will deliver some highly eccentric musical goods in Seattle on Friday. Avant-garde a cappella high jinks at Chapel Performance Space, and the sour-jazzy musings of Professor Gall at The Pink Door 2010-07-07T21:07:00Z

Abandoned by her husband just after she's given birth to their first child, Claire returns home from London to Ireland and to the loving embrace of her rather eccentric family. Marian Keyes: a life in books 2012-12-14T22:55:02Z

And a whole cast of British eccentrics who blithely signed up to fight on both sides, and learned the true, horrible cost of war. 4 good reads from National Book Critics Circle awards' finalists 2012-02-03T20:50:10Z

Mildred drives Dell hundreds of miles north to Saskatchewan, where he is to be put in the care of her eccentric brother, Arthur, who runs a small hotel in a small town on the prairie. Books of The Times: ‘Canada,’ a Novel by Richard Ford 2012-05-21T21:59:38Z

Decades later, her speech is still festooned with quotations from the Bard, an affectation that makes her even more eccentric. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

“The city’s full of eccentric, open-minded people,” she said. 2010-01-29T14:51:00Z

Their quest leads them into the ramshackle shop of an eccentric electrician — a kind of Luandan Doc Brown — whose crazy experiments seem to summon the ghosts and lost memories of Angola’s civil war. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

The interesting, eccentric Swedish people who make up the show are not really based, I think my brother would say, on his in-laws. Amy Poehler Explains What's Funny About Sweden 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Gelb duetted with Martin Carthy on a wonderfully eccentric ballad called It's Not The End of the World, turning the hall's Steinway grand into a buzzing, chirrupping Heath Robinson contraption by preparing it with blocks. The Floating Palace ? review 2012-02-09T18:05:00Z

We are extremely concerned by the emotional and eccentric tone of your complaint regarding a thoroughbred stallion with whom you have been linked. With the greatest disrespect: how Her Majesty's Press offers its candid friendship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

“I’m very aware that it’s sort of an eccentric thing to do, and I love the eccentricity of it,” Hall told me. Rebecca Hall’s Complicated Inheritance 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

To invest precious time and energy enhancing my capacity for rote learning would seem eccentric. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer ? review 2011-04-10T01:30:01Z

Watching the reckless eccentric at the center of "Daddy Longlegs" is like sitting beside a mesmerizing, garrulous kook. 'Daddy Longlegs': A wildly irresponsible father creates chaos 2010-06-24T19:29:00Z

This week Mr. Gvasalia’s influence was palpable on the runways, as designers expanded on his flamboyantly eccentric theme with puffer coats so fluffy and buoyant they seemed all but airborne. The Shape-Shifting Puffer 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

An eccentric city with a live-and-let-live vibe, London is a place where people can be free to be themselves, find the communities to which they belong and write whatever they want. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Cogswell, an eccentric political activist, championed the monorail, but ultimately failed. Seattle provides a backdrop for new film about 2001 City Council race 2010-07-30T05:38:00Z

An eccentric form of literary criticism, perhaps, but it works, even if you’re not a particular fan of of her subjects. Mid-year musts: The best of 2014 – so far 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

An eccentric hero for a drama, then, who as “Leave” campaign director would scrawl possible slogans directly onto walls and use a storage closet as a “thinking space.” Brexit Is Dividing Britain. So Is a Brexit Movie. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

What he did not do: nod to the English eccentric or Bloomsbury, a former pet theme of the house, now often hackneyed in expression. Burberry’s 50 Shades of the British Bourgeoisie 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

That chance came and went in June, when his eccentric, experimental and possibly unprecedented feature had its premiere at the Tribeca Festival. In ‘There There,’ the Actors in the Room Are Far Far From Each Other 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Now for hardened Gallophiles, used as they are to eccentric pronouncements and strange online conduct, all this may elicit a weary roll of the eye of the kind routinely made by Morrissey fans. No more public exposure: Vincent Gallo puts his films away 2011-08-05T12:07:02Z

Whether he’s slowing down time or ignoring its rules altogether, Mr. Kormakur’s eccentric pacing brings its own dividends, as does what really gets him going in the film. | 'Contraband': ?Contraband,? With Mark Wahlberg - Review 2012-01-12T23:08:20Z

The rest of the cast is peppered with expertly played misfits, perverts, eccentrics and even decent people. From Buffy to Boardwalk Empire: your favourite boxsets ever 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

"I don't know whether happy is the word, but he had such an eccentric head that ... contentment was all one could hope for." Pink Floyd founder Barrett put painting before pop 2011-03-17T12:53:39Z

It’s fair to note that not all big novels with lots of eccentric characters are necessarily Dickensian, and not all novels written in garbled syntax are necessarily Joycean. Review: ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing,’ by Eimear McBride

The man accused of using his status as a celebrity and prominent charity fund raiser to commit the crimes is Jimmy Savile, an eccentric BBC presenter who died last year aged 84. Britain's BBC apologizes over sex abuse scandal 2012-10-08T13:06:56Z

“The Burning Shores” begins with the dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, surely one of the most flamboyantly eccentric rulers ever to commandeer a country. Why Libya Continues to Burn 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

To test this out, we visited Il Casale, a strange and almost fantastical farm near Pienza, run by perhaps the most eccentric family in the valley. Tuscany Without the Crowds 2010-03-05T03:55:00Z

The eccentric pop star was called "an inspiration to other artists" in an appraisal written by singer Cyndi Lauper in the US publication. Lady Gaga 'most influential' star 2010-04-30T08:45:00Z

To be labelled as eccentric rather than crazy used to be a privilege only a great deal of money could buy. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

This may allude to his eccentric sense of ritual. Dance Review: Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine Reunite at MoMA 2014-04-15T21:31:12Z

No matter what eccentric detour he takes, his charm, energy and vision will make his shows more than worth the experience. Review | ASAP Rocky’s eccentric detours don’t deter from a spectacular sold-out show at the Anthem 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

It’s not difficult to see her, in another setting and another incarnation, as the eccentric girl in Lawrence’s story “The Princess.” This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

That was by Jonathan Pryce, hitherto known as a British character actor of the eccentric stripe, who was playing the Engineer, a vicious and ambitious denizen of Saigon’s underbelly and the show’s liveliest figure. Review: Return of the Little Copter That Wowed in ‘Miss Saigon’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Former "Will & Grace" actor Eric McCormack is hoping audiences will do just that when he returns to television next week, not as a witty gay lawyer but as an eccentric professor with paranoid schizophrenia. "Will & Grace" star returns to TV in "Perception" 2012-07-05T20:19:14Z

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable – not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way. Privacy settings engaged 2010-10-14T21:00:00Z

Try to step outside your museum’s comfort zone or carefully manicured institutional persona with something eccentric, an intuitive leap. Museums Embrace the Unfamiliar 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a typical Fairbanks solution: breezily practical, but undeniably eccentric. Douglas Fairbanks: extraordinary life of Hollywood founding father 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Patrick provokes the well-mannered Danes, who leave but then return — perhaps he’s simply eccentric — despite every cell in Louise’s body screaming, “Run!” In Horror Movies This Fall, Three Faces to Watch 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

His memoir, “You’re Not Doing It Right,” dispenses with show business altogether and creates a darkly funny, surprisingly eccentric midlife crisis story with a voice that will be grating to some readers. Critic’s Notebook: Following Tina Fey, Comedians Churn Out Books 2012-05-24T20:42:34Z

The Super Furry Animals singer is gentle, sincere and modestly eccentric, and those qualities all rub off on this charming outsider travelogue. Film review: Separado! 2010-07-29T21:04:00Z

As Griffiths obsessively works the case, she tries hard to follow the rule book — really, she does — but cannot help following an eccentric path that her colleagues regard with bemusement, puzzlement, or outright hostility. September crime fiction: UK authors on the case 2012-09-05T22:53:04Z

These drawings are matched by the strikingly eccentric costumes, heavy on polka dots and triangular or oval shapes. 'Nixon' headlines SF Opera's summer season 2012-06-15T18:03:09Z

Just because a man’s eccentric doesn’t mean he can’t also be pragmatic. Crispin Glover: ‘When you raise questions people say, ‘You’re crazy’’ 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Pacino embellishes the part with his whole method-acting arsenal: facial tics, eccentric line readings, a kind of flamboyant recessiveness — sinking into his chair, dropping his hoarse voice to a barely audible whisper at times. The Root of All Evil: Glengarry Glen Ross and Golden Boy on Broadway 2012-12-11T16:00:50Z

Leonard's new book, "Djibouti," is set in the Horn of Africa and is populated by pirates, al Qaeda operatives, an eccentric billionaire, a truth-seeking journalist and her sassy assistant. Author Leonard dislikes eBooks, still loves movies 2010-10-15T19:51:00Z

Michael Jackson as you've never seen him painted before 10 Dec 2009: Always thought there was something slightly eccentric about that Michael Jackson chap? Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z

It’s odd, deliberately limited and eccentric, but also all of a piece. Dance Review: Young Dancers? Workshop of Bloomers and Balloons 2010-12-07T22:15:00Z

Frank Cauldhame lives with his eccentric amateur scientist father in a big, isolated house on the Scottish coast. Ten of the best 2011-03-26T00:05:30Z

Her speech was as eccentric and abrupt as dada, but it was also painfully real. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Miriam, meanwhile, is ostracised and regarded with scorn, but her eccentric lifestyle lets her go under the radar. Beyond "girl gone mad melodrama" — reframing female anger in psychological thrillers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

On board: old-meets-new British dishes like smoked pigeon breast with pickled walnuts and a range of eccentric characters in tweeds. In London, You Can Join the Show 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

When the newly minted mom learns the hard way that her baby won’t spare her from the electric chair, it’s up to Jimmy and his eccentric kin to raise the infant together. When Hope Is a Thing With Diapers 2010-09-17T18:28:00Z

“Naturally, these are arrogant people,” she added in her eccentric English. Marina Abramovic?s Crossover Moment 2011-11-18T23:58:05Z

More typical are works that retain the random twists and eccentric contours of objects discovered on a forest path. Review | In the galleries: Delicate works show concern about the footprints we leave on our planet 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

An eccentric architectural plan thought to have been drawn by George III during his period of "madness" has been discovered at the British Library. George III drawing is uncovered 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

With the 70s and the decade’s accompanying explosion of artistic and commercial activity in New York, eccentric subcultures sprang up across every nook and cranny. The Warriors at 40: the enduring appeal of a New York classic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

With such an eccentric cavalcade of costumed titans set to debut in multiplexes, it surely no longer makes any sense to keep the caped crusader’s long-term sidekick on ice. Is it time for Ben Affleck's 'Batfleck' Batman to bring back Robin? 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

It's Claire, played by an eccentric art-house brunette, who is the conventional one trying to hold the wedding together as it disintegrates into hostility and pathology. Cannes: Lars von Trier at world's end 2011-05-18T15:19:00Z

These men’s friends begin appearing in the house as well, all of them eccentric and accomplished in unpredictable ways, like a houseful of Ricky Jays. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

The racket subsides a bit when the Eight Daoist Immortals appear, bearded, fat and eccentric, like so many Falstaffs. Art Review: ‘Theater, Life, and the Afterlife’ at China Institute 2012-05-31T22:11:08Z

For Fiennes, there was a similar sense that many would expect a film without nuance, that simply shone a light on Jones’s reputation for eccentric behaviour. Sexism and the music doc: 'Grace Jones has had her 15 minutes' 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

For his part, Mr. Borle said he hopes to emphasize the “humanity and sweetness” of the role rather than its more sinister, eccentric qualities. This Broadway Season, Christian Borle Is Taking the Lead(s) 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Because they’re guided by his sensibilities — and where he’s traveled, and what he’s already written about — they’re a bit eccentric in emphasis, like a dinner service that’s heavy on spoons but light on forks. Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Houseago’s eccentric enthusiasms are muffled by his reverence for traditions old and Modernist and by his Postmodernist play with generic formal and stylistic conventions. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z

That is, until a government mandate pushed the eccentric director over the edge. Woody Allen Halts Release of ‘Blue Jasmine’ in India Over Anti-Smoking Rules 2013-10-07T19:01:58Z

The house, in general, felt like a grandparent’s house occupied by an eccentric younger sentimentalist. Salinger’s House, Artist’s Retreat 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The pleasure derives from anecdotes that have the savour of lived experience, albeit by a man with a zeal for the eccentric – although his protestations of truthfulness are unnecessary. Greg Davies ? review 2011-03-22T19:31:00Z

Avenging her father and keeping close track of her family’s expenses are what preoccupy Mattie, a richly conceived and written eccentric, as memorable on the page as she is now on screen. | 'True Grit': Wearing Braids, Seeking Revenge 2010-12-21T23:00:16Z

Stanton was also almost always cast as a crook, a codger, an eccentric or a loser. Character Actor Harry Dean Stanton Dies at 91 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

As alienating as art school might be, it’s also a refuge for our eccentric, orange-haired heroine. ‘The African Desperate’ Review: Double Speak 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

That show was covered by the Chicago Daily News, with a headline quoting the eccentric but deeply religious artist: “My Drawings Are a Spiritual Unfoldment.” Joseph E. Yoakum Isn’t Who You Think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

It’s a dense, eccentric book of profound and generous gifts. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Herzog is at least genuinely interested—in a dispassionately anthropological way—in the struggle of man against nature and the eccentrics that pursue it. What Disaster Films Miss About Death 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Less conspicuously eccentric, though, are landscapes that anticipate Cézanne’s in the way they transmute nature into an abstract idea of nature by cutting its forms loose from space and space loose from gravitational logic. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z

How dare those Disney+ execs forbid us from watching Pedro Pascal’s bucket-headed bounty hunter saunter through a space western full of eccentric character actors! Killing Eve to Game of Thrones: the biggest TV disappointments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Escola is an actor and comedian known for his creative characters and eccentric viral videos, which bear titles like “Mom Commercial” and “The Goblin Commuter of Hoboken.” Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

This is a great old house, clearly owned by a magnificent eccentric. Dolittle trailer – Robert Downey Jr talks his way into all sorts of trouble 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

But this villainess — who carries on her black wings a complex history of women and power — has a surprisingly avid fan base of outsiders and eccentrics, beginning with the movie's 38-year-old star. The baby-cursing Maleficent gets to show a softer, less-wicked side 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

No more was heard of the 16th century author until the rediscovery of a novel featuring an eccentric character called Don Quixote rescued him from oblivion. Hunt on to find Cervantes — Spain's great writer 2014-04-28T13:03:27Z

Toast of London, starring Matt Berry as eccentric middle-aged actor Steven Toast, won Channel 4 the sitcom award. Gogglebox wins Rose d'Or TV award 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

He also edited the private notes of Arthur Crew Inman, an eccentric and reclusive would-be poet, into "The Inman Diary," for which Aaron read through and condensed more than 150 bound volumes. Daniel Aaron, a pioneering scholar of American studies and the first president of the Library of America, has died at age 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

But her extravagantly eccentric performance does manage to hint at the wounded center of a boisterous character. Review: Clashing Lives in Tennessee Williams’s ‘Creve Coeur’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

In HBO’s lovely and eccentric “Somebody Somewhere,” which begins Sunday, a Kansas woman with a song in her heart sets out to find her way, not by leaving but by staying. Review: In ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ Home Is Like No Place 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

He has already cast Charlie Sheen as the president of the United States and Mel Gibson as eccentric billionaire arms dealer Luther Voz. Lady Gaga becomes Robert Rodriguez's latest Machete Kills recruit 2012-07-27T12:02:06Z

Perhaps because of her proximity to these worlds, she conveys a palpable affection for lowlifes, eccentrics and outcasts. Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Through him, it became clear to me that the creativity inspired by the region’s majesty extends far beyond eccentric schnapps and the clever takes on classic Bavarian cuisine that chefs here are famous for. Following a trail of schnapps through Germany’s storied Black Forest 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

But because the story’s premise, and the character of Tetherly, in particular, never seem real — even within the parameters of the play’s deliberately eccentric universe — we never reach that kind of payoff. Review | Actor’s performance only highlight of ‘Things That Are Round’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

The play, filled with eccentric touches from the start, gets stranger as it goes along. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

An eccentric loner outside of class, Tobi smokes pot, knits sweaters and keeps a bowlful of his clipped fingernails. Patrick Stewart's new roles more down to Earth than sci-fi work 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Ms. Schiff writes: A short story is by definition an odder, more eccentric creature than a novel: a trailer, a fling, a warm-up act, a bouillon cube, a championship game in one inning. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Nathan Englander Talks About His New Stories 2012-02-17T20:15:02Z

Anderson, the British designer known for his eccentric takes on men’s wear staples. Festive Footwear and Other Whimsical Duds for the Holidays 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Or was he mainly a painter and sculptor whose frenetic genre-bending and wildly eccentric visual style obscured his seriousness? Rammellzee?s Work and Reputation Re-emerge 2012-02-24T02:36:40Z

The Wack Pack, an unpaid and rotating cast of eccentrics, still have plenty of time to heckle one another and the staff, though some have been rechristened with less offensive names. Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Though his eccentric methods are similar, Sloterdijk's historical purview is a lot wider, and Bubbles is as much an essential guide to modern space as it is a philosophical epic about dwelling and thinking. Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Wieland Hoban - review 2012-02-10T22:55:00Z

This puts him in the cross hairs of both Tommy and a horseman nicknamed Two-Tie for his eccentric neckwear, who has his eyes on the young woman for other reasons. 'Lord of Misrule': Jaimy Gordon's prizewinning novel of racetrack life 2011-01-19T22:02:04Z

In the last 20 years, he’s received more attention for eccentric appearances on reality television shows like “Celebrity Apprentice” and “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” Gary Busey Is Playing God. Seriously. 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tardif is an eccentric and not representative, Mr. Brown said, but, in his observations, the pre-internet dealers did tend to lean right and male. Let the Fountain Pens Flow! 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Alfred also laid out the dictum that will enable him to sit idly by as young Bruce charts a dangerously eccentric life path. 'Gotham' Recap: Batman as a Goth Boy, the Butler as an Angry Young Man 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Another could focus on an atypical vicar, likeable but flawed with some eccentric party tricks, who is uprooted from his natural habitat and plonked into a new parish in inner-city London . Rev and The Interceptors 2010-06-29T07:00:00Z

And Andrew assiduously follows current events in the newspaper, forming his own eccentric and increasingly paranoid ideas about the universe, especially as war approaches. Books of The Times: In Jane Smiley?s ?Private Life,? a Marriage With No Sparks 2010-05-24T21:21:00Z

Heartened not just by the selection but by a sense of aesthetic freedom, I found even more eccentric delights. 2010-01-07T05:44:00Z

The journey is difficult, meandering and pleasurably eccentric, as a short fight with the opposition leads to an extended lope through a deep forest. | '13 Assassins': Swords Drip Red With Revenge 2011-04-28T21:47:36Z

As happens in family gatherings, with a range of eccentrics and geniuses, everybody here nonetheless looks as if they belong, plein air or no plein air. ‘River Crossings,’ a Contemporary Art Exhibition at 2 Historic Sites of the Hudson River School 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Would have been the year's greatest underdog success, had it not been for… A team with no stars and a bald, eccentric manager with a broad Bristolian accent defied all possible odds this year. Web exclusive! All the celeb lists we couldn't fit in the mag 2010-12-17T12:18:20Z

This band of thieves is fascinating — enough to carry a whole play — and the perfect example of Churchill characters, who are often eccentric and inhabit unpredictable worlds. Review: In ‘Sex, Grift and Death,’ One-Acts That Test Perceptions 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

A trio of high school girls — an eccentric animator, a popular model and a business obsessive — form an anime club, a part-time diversion that soon grows, like a radioactive monster, into an all-consuming obsession. Best TV Shows of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

On the day of the show, the story of a young, eccentric woman unfolded as the models walked through the set. Explore Erdem’s Vintage-Inspired Set Design 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Deep in the woods it gets strange, and Slaght’s tireless search for owls is relieved by entertaining accounts of eccentric recluses, hunters and mystical hermits. Through the Russian Wilderness in Search of the World’s Largest Owl 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

Along with an enclosable terrace, the mezzanine contains what was intended to be one guest bedroom, which the architects cropped into an eccentric shape so the house wouldn’t jut out from the slope. The Ultimate Video Art Retreat 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson, a contemporary and colleague of writers like Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Charles Beaumont, was recognizable on the science fiction and comic convention circuits by his unruly beard and eccentric clothing. George Clayton Johnson, Science Fiction Writer Known for ‘Logan’s Run,’ Dies at 86 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

For such a notorious eccentric, he's quite the pragmatist. Crispin Glover: Back to the dissected snails 2011-02-09T21:46:00Z

Before a studio franchise snaps up Helander and ruins him, enjoy "Big Game" now while his muscular, glossy sense of play is eccentric and tongue-in-cheek. 'Big Game' runs amok with outsized acting and eccentric cliffhangers 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The passengers on the Nile cruiser are wonderfully eccentric, with a basketful of motivations for murder. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z

The titular — and longest — story focuses on a young boy named Set growing up during World War I with an eccentric, dysfunctional family that wonders whether the boy has a soul. Best science fiction and fantasy of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Matthews is funny, intriguing, eccentric, articulate, a talented artist — all qualities that many people find appealing. Dating with Asperger’s: A new documentary follows a lonely Aspie’s search for love 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Self-styled dandy and noted British eccentric Sebastian Horsley, who found fame in a botched attempt to crucify himself in the Philippines, died Thursday at the age of 47. Eccentric UK author Sebastian Horsley has died 2010-06-17T20:08:00Z

Ohr’s painterly and eccentric glazes still stump scholars and ceramists alike. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z

I don’t know any other orchestra that could make Mahler’s massive, eccentric Seventh Symphony levitate like this, dancing ghostlike in midair for well over an hour. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

This attitude toward the Zambian Space Program has persisted alongside the paeans to the eccentric genius. The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Or is it a perceptive, if eccentric, collaboration of threatened superpowers that will lead to an ingenious reinvention of that pop reality? Paul Morley on music: Prince 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

Matters are not helped by a production where few of the performers deliver the text with any clarity and where the physical grouping is eccentric. The House of Bilquis Bibi 2010-07-27T01:01:00Z

The last time her photographs were shown in London the identity-shifting artist was posing as women whose eccentric style was downright scary. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z

The man seemed more like your delightfully eccentric uncle. Remembering Jack Beeson, Composer and Teacher 2010-07-09T22:50:00Z

Gauguin evidently was briefly a French version of the eccentric American potter George Ohr. Art Review: In ‘Making Pottery Art’ at the Met, Beauty Is Political 2014-02-13T21:07:22Z

Improbable aristocrats, likeable eccentrics, would-be actresses, circus performers and cabaret workers—no one is ever who they appear to be. French letters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

One was the Black Cat Orchestra, a somewhat eccentric mix of instruments causing Goldston to go “on a wild-goose chase” to find applicable repertoire. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Seven months after the whole spectacle went down, Herman Cain has continued his career as a political eccentric — writing books, landing speaking engagements and hosting his own Web TV network. Life after Herman Cain 2012-07-06T17:35:00Z

One of the most eccentric, but charming exhibitions was another treasure hunt in the Ingegnoli garden center surrounded by Milan’s 17th-century Spanish walls. Design: Milan's Furniture Whirlwind 2011-04-18T14:01:14Z

There’s more than a hint of Crosby’s lifelong admiration for Mitchell in “Holding On to Nothing,” with its calmly strummed, eccentric chords and asymmetrical melody. David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

Although it looks a little like a railway cutting, or some other prodigy of eccentric 19th-century rural improvement, this track predates the Victorians by hundreds, if not thousands of years. Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards – review 2013-07-19T07:00:01Z

Mr. Shannon’s imperious enforcer lacks the eccentric spark he brings to his best roles. Review: ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Has Fire and Fury but Sheds Little Light 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

It is an elegant, eccentric delight and a lovely demonstration of Rivette’s distinctive touch for comedy. Jacques Rivette: a subtle master of slow-burn cinema 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

The line for brunch at the new hip spot stretches across the entire city and suddenly Brownstein’s character finds herself being forced to eat Pop-Tarts by a long-haired eccentric played by Tim Robbins. Brunch, beets and locally sourced chicken: the 10 best Portlandia sketches 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

It is classic Naharin: bursts of uninhibited motion and eccentric gestures framed by various theatrical gambits. Review: Gibney Dances Ohad Naharin, Minus the Inner Drive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

The influence of the Forest Fringe – the festival's free, even more eccentric wing – could be discerned in the rise of edgy new venues such as Summerhall, the space curated by Battersea Arts Centre. Edinburgh festival 2011: The highs and lows 2011-08-28T21:19:00Z

Even more intriguingly, that auteurist labor of love -- and whether you like it or not, "Inception" is clearly that -- is opening opposite another one, eccentric Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's hallucinatory Viking odyssey "Valhalla Rising." "Valhalla Rising": What to see instead of "Inception" 2010-07-16T00:30:00Z

But in the wake of this election such eccentric amiability seems therapeutically right. 'Miss You Like Hell,' an immigration musical for the new Trump era 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

There will be an eccentric villain that provides the crime of the week and also, ideally, illuminates some broader aspect of the narrative. 'Gotham' Recap: Gordon Puts Everything Right, Before the Commercial Break 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Look him up in standard reference works, and he’s likely to be referred to as a “legendary left-field guitarist” whose work is “eclectic” or just plain “eccentric.” Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z

New in paperback: the Seattle author's 2010 story of a special operations soldier whose mother, an eccentric psychologist, is taken captive in Pakistan by terrorists and threatened with execution. Local books: 'The Good Son' in paperback; poetry by Frances McCue 2011-02-14T22:43:20Z

In 1999, she moved back to her native California to create A-Z West, her current HQ in the Mojave Desert, a wilderness punctuated by eccentric, ramshackle dwellings. Artist of the week 93: Andrea Zittel 2010-06-24T14:12:00Z

The last category includes two virtually unknown features by Juleen Compton, an independent director who worked on her own eccentric terms. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

As in Mr. Guest’s films, its story is less important than the presentation of a gallery of eccentrics, ranging from mildly odd to completely loony. Television Review: ‘Family Tree’ on HBO, Directed by Christopher Guest 2013-05-10T21:37:04Z

Mr. Lythgoe has a smarmy show biz manner that suits telethon work, even if he’s not in any way as eccentric and histrionic as Mr. Lewis. ArtsBeat Blog: The TV Watch: No Jerry Lewis, but Telethon Still Offers Suspense 2011-09-05T14:43:34Z

“Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” is about an eccentric woman in her 60s in rural Poland who decides to investigate the murders of members of her local hunting club. Women Dominate Shortlist for Booker International Prize 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

He also worked in Russia last year on a film about the life and times of the eccentric Russian monk Grigory Rasputin. Putin offers French tax row actor Depardieu a Russian passport 2012-12-20T15:12:46Z

We travel to Tangier — long a refuge for adventurers and free-thinking outsiders — where a merry band of eccentric expats are letting their freak flags fly. | Spring Design Issue 2014-04-12T00:00:12Z

The eccentric in retreat isn’t a new character in pop — the motivations can be technological, aesthetic, psychological or simply circumstantial — but it has specific meaning in 2016. Review: With ‘22, a Million,’ Bon Iver Beats a Retreat to Even Quieter Reinvention 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

He is known for often playing eccentric, unpredictable and off-kilter characters. Johnny Depp enters Rowling's magical world in 'Fantastic Beasts' sequel 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Still, the performance, while fascinating, was somewhat eccentric. Music Review: Vienna Players Shine at Carnegie Hall 2010-09-30T06:26:00Z

Williams is famous for her short stories, which are full of strange, witty, fabulous, and often eccentric turns of phrase. My Favorite Books of 2016 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Here he plays Paul Child, a smart, discreet and very masculine character who is a US diplomat in Paris in the 1950s, married to the eccentric and forceful Julia Child, played, of course, by Streep. Beyond the negroni: Stanley Tucci's 20 best films – ranked! 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

It’s an eccentric buddy comedy, on par in color and tonality with Wes Anderson’s works. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

That said, “Three Stages of Amazement” is a fiery, deeply involving book with an eccentric streak that keeps it constantly surprising. Books of The Times: Wife on the Rebound, Husband on the Edge 2011-03-02T23:00:07Z

He had finished one house in Los Angeles, for the eccentric oil heiress Aline Barnsdall. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Why his Los Angeles houses deserve a closer look 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Radner played eccentric characters with raucous abandon and jangly big-kid physicality, but she also projected a vulnerability that made you care for them. Review: In ‘Love, Gilda,’ a Portrait of a Brief and Brilliant Career 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Pare back some of deviant bits they delight in, and there remained inspired pieces, primed for sale but with eccentric spirit intact. Fashion Review: Jason Wu, Rag & Bone and Suno Show at New York Fashion Week 2014-02-10T00:14:58Z

Williams plays an eccentric advertising executive who works alongside his daughter, played by Gellar. CBS adds Robin Williams to veteran hits in fall TV lineup 2013-05-15T16:10:28Z

Chief among these eccentrics is Col, who owns the Stoat and Parot. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

But beginning in “Late Night’s” later years, he developed — unless the right word is “curdled” — into the crotchety main attraction of an eccentric, ever more self-referential psychodrama. The Legacy of David Letterman, Icon of the Grizzled Generation 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

He is, in other words, a boozer and an eccentric — an old-fashioned, classically English type. | Peter Ackroyd’s London Calling 2013-09-12T13:00:12Z

They complained, he wrote, that their founder's "growing celebrity has been matched by an increasingly dictatorial, eccentric and capricious style". WikiLeaks: Strained relation, accusation ? and crucial revelations 2011-01-31T20:00:01Z

One of the glories of our print culture is the Economist, a magazine that combines eccentric, neoliberal editorial views with excellent, well-informed reporting. Publishers take note: the iPad is altering the very concept of a 'book' 2010-12-19T00:06:11Z

My father was more eccentric for sure, but even if his publishing house was very famous, he was still very concentrated on his work rather than being a public person. Ludovico Einaudi: A Classical Artist for the YouTube Age 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

German artist Rebecca Horn, a friend, gave Abramović relationship advice, but there is no reference to Horn’s own feminist performances in eccentric wearable sculptures. How Marina Abramovic's memoir does and doesn't illuminate the artist's work 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

That supposed yoga spot she had chosen, Doe Bay Resort and Retreat, was not actually yoga focused — but it was both eclectic and eccentric. Going frugal in Portland, Vancouver and Orcas 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Had those researchers not made their announcement in February, though, it’s not clear this dense, eccentric book would have found much of an audience. Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Emin’s work has always blazed with a more eccentric, confessional energy. Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch, Leaning Into Pain 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

The producers and director say, "Go as eccentric and crazy as you want, and if we have to pull you back, we'll pull you back." "To help life flow": Mark Dacascos reflects on his strong, flavorful and action-packed career 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

It may be our Seattle — but with that eccentric turn, and others, he's made it his own. 'Seattle Bridges: Monumental Drawings' at Davidson Galleries works on several levels 2012-05-14T20:39:04Z

Without that wilderness, Florida will become what Williams accuses it of being: a cotton-candy county-fair fantasy, the same sideshow attraction suggested by the most eccentric and venal of characters in Pittman’s stories. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

As an eccentric, irrelevant outsider in cultural life, the movement has managed to transform attitudes toward tradition and has wrought major changes in orchestral practice. Early Music Is Enjoying Its Moment 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z

“I had this idea to take this character to the left and make him eccentric and refreshing,” he said. Film: Idris Elba, ?Wire? Star Generating His Own Buzz 2010-04-16T18:19:00Z

The ensemble cast is excellent; James LeGros’s eccentric performance as the emotionally constipated Dr. Harris stands out. Television: As They Were Saying ... (Network Dramas Return) 2010-03-01T06:21:00Z

And it’s unclear exactly how much Smith manipulated her persona—the eccentric, the morbid girl, the warbling singer. The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Despite its brash title and eccentric bent, "A Merry Friggin' Christmas" is, at heart, a pretty traditional holiday picture. 'A Merry Friggin' Christmas' includes Robin Williams shtick 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

“It’s a sort of literary shamanism,” he writes in this wildly eccentric and chatty book, “and it’s been fantastic fun.” 12 New Books We’re Reading This Summer (and 6 Not So New) 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

“Steel Magnolias,” centered on a group of eccentric Southern women, helped make Julia Roberts a star. Robert Harling, Screenwriter, Returns With ?GCB? on ABC 2012-02-29T22:54:28Z

Marking the centenary of someone's retirement would doubtless be regarded as eccentric in some quarters. Hall?/Elder - review 2011-02-27T17:47:54Z

But that’s unlikely to hamper someone as passionate and eccentric as Besson: he has been making films for too long now to start playing it safe. Luc Besson on turning Rihanna into a 28th-century Cleopatra and being stood up by Prince 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Jude, whose demeanor brought to mind Kurt Vonnegut’s eccentric character Billy Pilgrim, went off on a tangent. Abandoning Doubt in Sedona, Arizona 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

His eccentric views exasperated and sometimes infuriated the far more conservative Tolkien. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and 'The Fellowship' of fantasy writers 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

What a parade of beautiful minds, splendid eccentrics, catty squabbles. ‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

For the Victorians, a dominant image was of lone eccentrics, working in their shed with tubes of chemicals and suffering the occasional explosion. Happiness ? and how to find it 2011-04-02T23:13:57Z

Buried next to the church is David Herbert, who was in many ways the doyen of the foreign eccentrics in Tangier, a man of ludicrously good taste and fierce snobbery. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z