Word: eccentricism
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“Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium” bears a strong resemblance to “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” except that Mr. Magorium, the Mr. Wonka parallel, doesn’t appear to have a personality disorder and doesn?...
But the increased prevalence of the topical articles has come at the expense of the more eccentric pieces “The Atlantic” was known for in the recent past.
When students and residents who live around Harvard Square wish to shop for groceries, their choices are severely limited. There has been no true grocery store in the Square for seven years. It is therefore with relief and growling stomachs that we anticipate the arrival of Market in the Square...
Well before the halfway mark, I found my unengaged mind turning wistfully to another current film about a family gathering in a bucolic setting. That would be Dan in Real Life, in which a damaged figure, (the always excellent Steve Carell), playing a mournful widower, falls comically but painfully, in...
These are heady days for tiny Panama. It is undertaking a massive expansion of the Panama Canal, luring billions of dollars in maritime and high-tech investment that could make it the Hong Kong of the Americas. But here's the other side: in the past few months, scores of...