Word: eccentricism
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Eva Pasco, who loosely based her novel Underlying Notes on her fragrance addiction, has boxes and trunks and specially made cabinets all over her house for her perfume collection. She calls herself a "fragrance floozy," but she's no eccentric kook. At least half a million people like her subscribe...
First he was a Pivotal Balkan politician, then an eccentric New Age guru. The earnest Janez Drnovsek led Slovenia to independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 and, as its popular Prime Minister and President, built coalitions, revamped the economy and brought the country into NATO and the E.U.--the only former...
Even as the Times demeans itself to entertain the blogosphere for a moment, it also apparently yearns for its glory days. Its eccentric brand of nostalgia is manifest: until the McCain story hit the Web, sitting atop the website’s “Most Emailed” list...
If an eccentric inventor was prevailed upon to create a device that pedestrians could carry in order to exact the most possible inconvenience to other people and threaten the most sensitive parts of the human body, it’s likely that the end result would look much like an...
The Institute of Contemporary Art’s (ICA) latest exhibition, “The World as a Stage,” opens with a most fitting visual prologue. Towering over viewers upon their entrance, Rita McBride’s “Arena” transforms the gallery into...