Word: eccentricism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For openers, though, the story's surface is sufficiently beguiling. Big money is immediately introduced: the fortune left by the late, eccentric Francis Cornish. Meeting in Toronto, the benefactor's nephew Arthur and the four other board members of the Cornish Foundation consider an offbeat project. A graduate student named...
STAY AWAKE (A&M). A collection of tunes from Disney films is a bundle of surprises. Suzanne Vega spooks her way through a Mary Poppins ditty; Tom Waits does a mine-shaft version of Heigh Ho; Ringo Starr and Herb Alpert loft When You Wish Upon a Star: a little...
OF course, the only thing worse than copping the sincere attitude (and in the case of U2 I don't doubt it started out sincere and was eventually co-opted by the forces of commerce) is having an attitude. Enough with Sting's image as the politically correct artiste extraordinare...
The Ecotopians are not like you and me. They favor fanciful hats and eccentric leggings, all made from natural materials. They work only 20 hours a week, smoke marijuana legally, like to give one another back rubs and reject conspicuous consumption. What they really care about is their land, their...
A frustrated mama's boy who spent his life scorning family relations as unhappy when not downright unnatural. A product of a menage a trois who loathed his given name of George because he shared it with both a pathetic father and the self-styled musical genius who became his...