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Word: eccentricism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Danny, a fiery cellist with wild red hair, played soccer like a fiend and took young girls for midnight riders on his Honda-destination always a mystery, Deborah, a violinist, was less flamboyant, but ended up in a tortuous love affair with a boy 15 years her junior. Pianists Sven...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Bach-Packing in the Woods | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

There are two character types that American movies have never believably portrayed: the international financier and the Third World revolutionary. By putting both in the same picture, Love and Money hardly doubles anyone's fun. Writer-Director James Toback labors under the delusion that he is a man of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Mar. 8, 1982 | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Thelonious Monk, 64, brilliant and eccentric jazz pianist and founding father of bebop; of a stroke; in Englewood, N. J. As a teenager, Monk honed his highly personal style-skewed melodies, oblique harmonic progressions-in Harlem during the Depression with Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Alto-Saxman Charlie ("Bird") Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 1, 1982 | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

Her fluttering tailspin-reaching bottom at a Dickensian snake pit where she was gang-raped by drunken G.I.s and subjected to every form of torture the psychiatric Establishment could devise, from shock treatment to massive doses of mind-bending drugs and, quite possibly, a transorbital lobotomy-is the stuff nightmares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Morning Comes for Frances | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

Yet these are only gargoyles on Muggeridge's religious edifice, an eccentric structure whose foundations reach back to youth. As a vaguely Christian, mildly leftist correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, he journeys to Moscow to watch Stalin's betrayals of the revolutionary ideal. Like a minute hand, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Curmudgeon | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

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