Word: eccentricism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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1957 WHY DO AMERICAN MOVIEMEN REQUIRE PITH HELMETS, SALT TABLETS, QUININE PILLS TO VISIT THE CAO DAI CAPITAL, TAYNINH [to film The Quiet American- TIME, Feb. 25]? THE CLIMATE IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO A WASHINGTON SUMMER. PERHAPS THE INHABITANTS WERE MYSTIFIED BY THEIR STRANGE ATTIRE AND ECCENTRIC DIET.
Both actors develop their characters particularly nicely in a scene in which the couple participates in an amateur production of Strinberg's The Father. The rehearsals are directed by an eccentric, egotistical fop (Jon Finlayson) who makes Patricia into his new protege and who takes the play so seriously that...
* Go into Macarelli's Bar in East Cambridge and ask the truck drivers and meat packers that drink there what they think of Harvard. They'll tell you that it gobbles up all the property in Cambridge and is populated with strange and eccentric people.
Norma Kamali, who stormed the fashion world with her sweatsuit look in 1981, is now unveiling the "super dirndl," an haute couture version of the traditional peasant dress still worn in Austria and parts of Germany. With their tight torsos and broad, billowing skirts, the Kamali dresses ($96) are sure...
By shaking off his eccentric personae and bringing his inimitable music down to the man in the street, Bowie has gained many new admirers. His old fans should not misconstrue this fresh vitality as selling out.