Word: eccentricism
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Pascal Leclerc Briant has an eccentric flair as well as an ability to make beautiful champagnes. If you inquire ahead (see leclercbriant.com) for a smallish fee you can rappel down into his caves or learn to saber a champagne bottle. Holding the thick sword on the bottle's neck, I...
In the movie, a character named Susan Orlean (played by Meryl Streep) intrepidly investigates the work of eccentric orchid thief John Laroche (Chris Cooper) for a New Yorker article and a book. She also snorts psychotropic orchid extracts, brandishes—and fires—a gun and poses nude...
Menzies has asked itself that question countless times since gold ran out nearly a hundred years ago. While making the town's existential crisis stunningly clear, the sculptures also offer an answer. In a place where employment opportunities are, as Finlayson puts it, "zilch," Gormley's Inside Australia is a...
After an international hunt that lasted more than a decade, U.S. authorities have finally nabbed a slippery fugitive from justice: former chess wunderkind BOBBY FISCHER, 61. (We feel safer already.) Fischer has been a wanted man since 1992 when, in violation of a U.S. ban, he headed to Yugoslavia for...
Some parties are meant to be skipped--like when a convicted tax cheat dons a crown in a federal office building, declares himself the Messiah and claims to have redeemed the souls of Hitler and Stalin. When Salon.com revealed last week that dozens of legislators attended a bizarre event staged...