Word: eccentricism
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In the drama Eleventh Hour (Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.T.; debuts Oct. 9), meanwhile, genius biophysicist Jacob Hood (Rufus Sewell) advises government agents investigating cases of science gone too far, be they in genetic science or homeopathic drugs (no, really). As is mandatory in the House era, Hood is brilliant, eccentric...
Another study, presented in May at the American College of Sports Medicine, warned that wearing high heels on stairs was especially perilous. The body compensates for the instability by putting an emphasis on the knee-extensor muscle. "It's an eccentric muscle action," says Wendy Miletello, one of the authors...
“The least change in our point of view, gives the whole world a pictorial air,” wrote Emerson almost 200 years ago in the essay “Nature.” Fast-forward two centuries and the edgiest avant-garde cinema is just an...
But that approach risks some loss of flavor. In Life (Fridays, 10 p.m. E.T.; preview debut Sept. 29), Damian Lewis plays Charlie Crews, a cop wrongly convicted of murder who returns from jail with a big cash settlement and a Zen outlook. Because of Lewis' brilliant portrayal of the eccentric...
In June of 2008, hidden on farmland in a small town in Tennessee, a village of nearly 100,000 people was constructed for four brief days, just at it has been every year since 2002. Since its inception, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has grown in both size and...