Word: eccentricism
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After booming in the '90s, the number of ballot initiatives (measures proposed by citizens) and referendums (those put on the ballot by legislators) was down this year--202 measures in 40 states, the smallest figure since 1986. In Oregon, citizens even attempted to get an initiative on the ballot to...
Tina: I feel like they are a variety of people—some eccentric, also some very put together people. People who are very sure of themselves.
What follows is an acute examination of amateur justice and its unintended results. If Friend suffers by comparison to History, it is in its familiar eccentric aunts and faded gentry, who infest Southern literature like kudzu. But Harriet is an original. While grownups like Michael Chabon are moonlighting as kids...
As on Ally, the focus is on matters professional and romantic--here, about new attorneys Lynne (Gretchen Mol), Jeannie (Kathleen Robertson) and Sarah (Chyler Leigh). As on Ally, we see a high-priced law firm, eccentric cases and characters with nicknames like "the Worm." But don't think Kelley is...
"They think she's real," says Eloise's illustrator, Hilary Knight, 75, who first drew the plucky character in the 1955 book Kay Thompson's Eloise. In the next decade, he and the eccentric Thompson produced four more books featuring the 6-year-old imp who resides at the Plaza...