Word: eccentricism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some ancients also watched the planets out of sheer intellectual curiosity. Ptolemy, one of the greatest of the Greek astronomers, wanted nothing more than to explain the eccentric wanderings of the five known planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Why, for example, did Saturn seem at times to forge...
Kirsten Skrinde as lusty, honest Rita and Eliza Gagnon as imaginative, quiet Carter carry off their roles with greatest success. Skrinde's Rita is the most consistently funny character, but there is a bite to her humor, as in her account of a job interview: after tea and charming conversation...
The Straits are an eccentric lot among megabuck band peers. They're not only studio nimble, they love to tour--at least this half does.
THE NOVEL, chronicling the young reporter's struggle for Truth and the big story in the big city amidst villanous editors, grizzled and/or washed-up veterans and properly eccentric sources, gives a vivid if somewhat melodramatic picture of the most influential--except perhaps for the Peking People's Daily--newspaper...
Only in the land of Tinsel Town could there be such a race. The Republican incumbent, Robert Dornan, 47, is a former B-movie actor and Emmy-winning TV talk show host. His challenger is Democrat Carey Peck, 31, son of Gregory Peck and a former Peace Corps volunteer in...