Even so, subversive political movements attract eccentrics, and eccentrics arrive early.
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Washington Square Park has certainly seen its share of eccentrics.
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He believed that a healthy society is filled with eccentrics.
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Unicode's history is full of attacks by governments, activists and eccentrics.
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Editors' Choice Eccentrics, obsessives and big personalities dominate this week's nonfiction.
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Samson's films look towards outsiders and eccentrics with curiosity rather than judgment.
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This town, in other words, calls out to many kinds of eccentrics.
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There, they meet assorted gentle eccentrics, each further enhancing the nubby realism.
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The new rap eccentrics cloak their peculiarities in au-courant-sounding packages.
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Our culture has names for people who do — freaks, kooks, eccentrics, even perverts.
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The characters, too, are distinctive: six eccentrics all up in one another's business.
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And he's a proper eccentric, which I like because I get on with eccentrics.
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Parfit was one of England's greatest eccentrics as well as one of its greatest philosophers.
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Jazz-age eccentrics like Aleister Crowley took it as a direct line to the occult.
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Just like with people, the history of tropical cyclones is replete with oddballs and eccentrics.
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Historically, bourgeois society regarded artists as disreputable and deviant, eccentrics doomed to the social margins.
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His star attractions turn into a kind of chorus of eccentrics, with minimal back stories.
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Shortly after, I became obsessed with fashion eccentrics like Rei Kawakubo, Rick Owens, and Martin Margiela.
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"I've only met a handful of true eccentrics in my life, and true artists," he said.
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Back then, a string quartet would play as tattered neighborhood eccentrics filtered in for high tea.
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A few artists and eccentrics fought to preserve the ecology of the place and sometimes succeeded.
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The Brexiteer faction as a whole contains a large number of what might politely be called eccentrics.
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Since moving here part time in 2012 at age 67, I count myself among the senior eccentrics.
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An exceptional eccentric in an industry full of eccentrics, Jason Dill is your favorite weirdo's favorite weirdo.
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This collection of eccentrics is perhaps unique in football halftime entertainment for its ability to insult the opposition.
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They trekked through North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, and elsewhere, stopping in small towns and meeting local eccentrics.
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This is a true community, forged in the dark, stitched of artists and retirees, eccentrics and lapsed dreamers.
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Floats with steel drum bands took center stage, with pranksters and costumed eccentrics acting as a side show.
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Scott's stories often explore the personal lives of driven eccentrics whose scientific obsessions leave no room for loved ones.
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More generally, it's obviously great to have a variety of opinions, and all kinds of eccentrics in the United States.
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Johnson owns dusty eccentrics: smart, quirky people surrounded by remnants of others' lives — first obituary writers, then librarians, now archaeologists.
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Mr. Diggs is a crafty and dexterous rapper, an inheritor of West Coast eccentrics from Freestyle Fellowship to E-40.
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Diane Arbus, a photographer, grew up in luxurious uptown apartments, but she sought inspiration among the city's outcasts and eccentrics.
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Sanya Kantarovsky's darkly funny eccentrics; Firelei Báez's empowered mythologies; Chris Ofili's Calypso; Tino Sehgal's interpreters; and Carolee Schneemann's cat collaborations.
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Mr. Saviello had become one of the recurring characters on Mr. Heller's popular Instagram account, which celebrates the city's eccentrics.
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But the breakout collaborator is Rico Nasty, who out-eccentrics the hosts with quick-tongued raps and pop-punk yelps.
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These are the women who flout convention, who shrug off the norms, the eccentrics who do things their own way.
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He was a Main Street mystic, one of those ageless eccentrics who haunt small-town America like real-life Boo Radleys.
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It is not just that the party's Brexit wing contains a lot of people who might politely be described as eccentrics.
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In the years since, with Blanco's assistance, Høiberg's had the chance to produce for some of pop music's A-list eccentrics.
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But since opening in 1983, it has been a destination bookstore for chefs, cooks, academics and eccentrics from around the world.
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Here, he discovered an eclectic scene of drug-fueled club parties and scattered salons where eccentrics met to discuss occult spirituality.
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A lot of local eccentrics will have homemade costumes or they've just bought them online [and] they're pretty much furry costumes.
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Despite their various quirks and eccentrics there was no magic formula to win over this kind of voter or that one.
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"If I miss anything, it's the amount of eccentrics walking around, and hearing about culture everywhere on the street," he said.
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Lately, at the other end, have come the rowdy genre-bashing eccentrics, who've rebaptized the genre as punk, psychedelia or both.
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"Britain is a nation of eccentrics, and people engage in odd hobbies like train-spotting, stamp collection and collecting butterflies," he said.
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But the best material is saved for Tracey, with actress Michaela Coel embracing all of the gawky eccentrics of her semi-autobiographical character.
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It nails what's most endearing about "Thanks for the Trouble": its tacit plea for connection and its affection for all the wounded eccentrics.
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On October 18, Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics: A Collaboration with Nobuo Tsuji and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston opens in Boston.
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Several sustained attempts to endear the public to umbrella hats have failed, even though most umbrella-hat enthusiasts are adorable, forward-thinking eccentrics.
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No longer monopolized by artists and eccentrics, creativity is increasingly recognized as a vital tool for success and well-being in any field.
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Even in Northern California – in a scene populated by what the art historian Susan Landauer calls "arch-eccentrics" — Franklin Williams's unclassifiable work stands out.
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The Out camp may have Mr Gove and perhaps Mr Johnson, but otherwise it is a bunch of cabinet no-names and fringe eccentrics.
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The art world's favorite eccentrics Eckhaus Latta will show in Seward Park; the accessories queen Rebecca Minkoff will take to the streets of SoHo.
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More successful are Kunitz's portraits of the eccentrics who challenged dogma to push sometimes-eccentric notions of fitness and how best to achieve it.
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For years, Mr. Rees-Mogg, 48, has been one of British politics' favorite eccentrics, affecting a languid, antiquarian poshness that verges on performance art.
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Mr. Chandler, 216, a small man who smokes cheap cigars and refuses Budweiser not in glass bottles, is one of the island's waterfront eccentrics.
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They still see a field of eccentrics and seekers, pushing their bodies and minds, which is well and good but certainly not a sport.
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At times, he suggests the embryonic Los Angeles gangster rap of the late 1980s, or even vocal eccentrics like E-40 and Suga Free.
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At the time, in the early 1960s, "ecology was thought to be for eccentrics," Mr. Diamond recalled in a recent article in The Environmental Forum.
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Partly it's because Los Angeles is a strange, alien land full of beautiful eccentrics who use private jets like the rest of us use cabs.
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As a record collector myself, I have always loved the older, dirty, disorganized shops and the cast of obsessive eccentrics who often inhabit those spaces.
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" He began to enumerate Santa Cruz eccentrics: "There was Martin Ray, the first California winemaker to catch the Burgundian bug to the point of obsession.
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It just felt like a tacky and surreal party, filled with eccentrics who happened to be very well-endowed in the chest or trouser department.
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Seeing the prints in person is great, and any event tied to Parker Day is sure to be full of all sorts of peacocking eccentrics.
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This year sees a floral arch for the Queen's 90th birthday, a selection of bizarre garden gadgets in "The British Eccentrics Garden," and a poppies tribute.
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Still: Even off-the-charts greatness can get a little tedious, and the fact is that fans, especially casual ones, are drawn to firebrands and eccentrics.
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Without the legitimizing acknowledgment of their work as "art," outsider artists are often considered by their immediate communities to be eccentrics under the best of circumstances.
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Eccentrics cosplaying as Founding Fathers or wearing pro-pot T-shirts had been replaced by a mass of earnest activists in button-downs and MAGA hats.
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Filthy Gorgeous Camden Town, the 72-page visual archive dials its focus in on Camden's eccentrics, it being, among other things, the stomping grounds of Amy Winehouse.
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"With its otherworldly looks and extraordinary performance, the Miura became the car of rock stars, playboys, and wealthy eccentrics alike," RM Sotheby's said in a prepared statement.
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To own a turtle, then, means accepting that you will be seen as the neighborhood eccentrics, people who have chosen a secondary position in their own households.
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Cage has always excelled playing wacky eccentrics, and this could prove to be one of his more out-there roles, so take a look at the trailer above.
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Diane had a talent for friendship, and she maintained long-term connections with all sorts of people — eccentrics in rooming houses, freaks in sideshows, socialites on Park Avenue.
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MILAN — Amid the boom and revolution of Milan in 803, artists, writers and eccentrics of all stripes fueled their creative ferment with drinks at the legendary Bar Jamaica.
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Ms. Sedaris, playing a version of herself, throws open her house to a rotating cast of eccentrics and frenemies, inviting us in to watch the ensuing D.I.Y. lunacy.
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The lighting changes in each photo (they are not hung progressively) so that in some we are looking at the eccentrics in the audience lit by bright house lights.
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Some of Elgar's older friends are English eccentrics; Richard Baxter-Townsend, making his first entrance and exit on a period tricycle, sports a deerstalker and uses an ear-trumpet.
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We want to take readers on spellbinding adventures, introduce them to powerful jerks they don't know (or don't know enough about), weirdos, eccentrics, and folks in search of redemption.
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England famously loves its eccentrics, which could be why Sedaris, who grew up in North Carolina and lived in France before crossing the channel in 2002, feels so comfortable there.
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Though attendance numbers barely reached the three digits mark, the cabal of costumed eccentrics ranged all-ages from scampering tweens to aging hippies, everyone embracing the festival's "anything goes" mentality.
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IN HAPPIER days for the European Union the arcana of international trade policy were a matter for harmless eccentrics, while the intricacies of Belgium's constitutional arrangements were reserved strictly for masochists.
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The city beneath the city, also known as the New York subway system, is a part-time home to a seemingly endless array of eccentrics, from "showtime" dancers to mariachi bands.
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The Wack Pack, an unpaid and rotating cast of eccentrics, still have plenty of time to heckle one another and the staff, though some have been rechristened with less offensive names.
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The Fourth Avenue book district, which ran from Union Square to Astor Place, was flavorful, its dozens of bookstores run by eccentrics who often seemed to regard customers as an intrusion.
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For those more curious than martial, one useful path through this thicket is to look at areas where extremists and eccentrics from very different worlds are talking about the same subject.
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I'll admit that I spent the show's first 10 minutes or so in a state of slightly irritable resistance, seeing so many curmudgeonly eccentrics assembled for an in-house talent night.
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The Host (Michael Novak) invites a wonderfully motley gathering of eccentrics into his home, sets them performing and even quarreling, and then, when they are gone, starts to create dance poetry.
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Fashion's obsession with eccentric people – and people read as eccentrics due to their marginalization — likely has something to do with its never-ending quest for the new (see also: Pose on FX).
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I think he knew people who were sort of British eccentrics or artists, and then in that kind of staid world, to have some kind of twist or individuality speaks such volumes.
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There is a commonly held misperception that her explorations in the margins of society, communing with professional freaks and mentally unbalanced eccentrics, deepened her depressions and contributed to her suicide in 1971.
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We live on the east side of Mobile Bay in Fairhope, conservative at its core, but with a tradition of welcoming writers, artists and eccentrics, who mingle with the fishermen on Fairhope Pier.
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The Week Ahead Though New York theater has always had a soft spot for Southern eccentrics (paging Tennessee Williams!), the singular, vernacular lyricism of Eudora Welty has seldom been translated to the stage.
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She lives with her unseen, bed-bound mother and careens into local eccentrics with her cousin and best friend, Kurtan Mucklowe (played by Charlie), who has slightly more sense though hardly more ambition.
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England loves eccentrics, but increasingly, and much to the nation's detriment, it also loves banter: an entire country, putty in the hands of anyone who says something outrageous enough to bring the lols.
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This memoir, by a seventeen-year-old author, recounts her childhood in the Chelsea Hotel—"known for its writers, artists, and musicians, but also for its drug addicts, alcoholics, and eccentrics," she writes.
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There are three things fashion people love: eccentrics, glamour, and tragicomedy – that perverse play of humor and sadness so loved in the British (and camp) comedy cannon that we Americans can't get enough of.
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Shame's proximity to relative eccentrics has granted them one of the luckiest ascents to a record deal since Kelly Osbourne magically ended up on the same label as her dad in the early 00s.
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Recently, I've developed a growing addiction to well-written memoirs and biographies, whether they relate to artists, statesmen or failed eccentrics: "Stalin," by Simon Sebag Montefiore; "Kafka," by Reiner Stach; "Nikolai Gogol," by Nabokov.
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And for good reason: Arnold himself is a mellow and generous, Buddha-like character, who wonderfully balances the inner-city eccentrics who surround him, teaching valuable lessons while standing tall amidst life's myriad darknesses.
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As the film editor, I was underwhelmed by the story and the music, though Ms. Settle and the other actors playing the circus eccentrics gave heartfelt performances, and the dancing was interesting at times.
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The intellectuals and artists and eccentrics in her lesser books seem to be moved like lethargic wooden chess pieces, making you feel like you're trapped in the lower intestine of some baroque scholarly superstructure.
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AMERICAN MESSIAHS False Prophets of a Damned Nation By Adam Morris Whenever Americans attach the label "cult" to a religious group, they reveal more about their own anxieties than about the theological eccentrics themselves.
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While golf, tennis, and swimming were idealized as the appropriate sports for female athletes, boxing and wrestling remained on the fringes, practiced primarily by eccentrics or women who had no social status to lose.
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Shot in the least picturesque parts of Paris and peopled with morbid eccentrics and grotesques, this picture, Zulawski's third feature and his first made in France, is in certain respects among his most restrained.
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He spoke widely at peace rallies; befriended Eldridge Cleaver, an early leader of the Black Panther Party; and, in 1971, appeared in the trippy hippie documentary Rainbow Bridge alongside Hawaii-based eccentrics and Jimi Hendrix.
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"The influx of capital and professional expertise has been a step up from untrained eccentrics," said Simon Robinson, the proprietor of Hattingley Valley, who saw winemaking as a way of diversifying his family's agricultural business.
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Save your comedic irony or your Tim & Eric weirdness for lower-stakes sports like baseball or basketball, the ones with a modicum of tolerance for absurdists and eccentrics like Bill Lee or Shaq or Ichiro.
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Then there were the "Eccentrics in Ohio," who, after making a big deal of needing a home under 50 years old and with the number 8 in the address, chose a home that gave them neither.
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The backbone of the sport, however, remains a community founded by proud eccentrics, now warily trying to preserve its insular identity amid an influx of newcomers while maintaining that the activity is uniquely inclusive and accessible.
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TAKASHI MURAKAMI: LINEAGE OF ECCENTRICS Works by this contemporary artist are juxtaposed with pieces drawn from the museum's collection of older Japanese art, with choices made in collaboration with art historian Nobuo Tsuji. Oct. 21–Apr.
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Following Benjamin's lead, the SculptureCenter curator, Ruba Katrib, has organized "The Eccentrics," a circuslike exhibition of artworks and performances by an international roster of eight artists that promises to reveal novel, offbeat and liberating modes of being.
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Although she curated the Philharmonic's American Eccentrics series and conducted educational concerts, the orchestra, which had a weak record with composers of color at that time, stymied some of her projects and never actually played her music.
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But to me, reading Hanson and Srinivasan together offers a good case study in how intellectual eccentrics — like socialists and populists in politics — can surface issues and problems that lurk beneath the surface of more mainstream debates.
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What emerges, though, feels primarily like a blown-up version of a bad sitcom, with Hart sharing the class with a bunch of eccentrics, played by the likes of Rod Riggle, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Al Madrigal.
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It was the early blogosphere instead of Twitter mobs, serendipity instead of ruthless curation, geek culture as an insurgency rather than a corporate establishment, online as an escape for eccentrics rather than an addictive dystopia for everyone.
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And while those makers have long been categorized as "eccentrics," none of them have been pathologized to the degree Sarah Winchester has been, despite the fact that her house remains one of the great accomplishments of American architecture.
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When Nathaniel's parents move from London to Singapore, for the father's job, he and his sister stay behind, in the care of a near-stranger who introduces them to a network of part-time crooks and other eccentrics.
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Clinton was left to face a field largely composed of lovable eccentrics — Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee, and Sanders — and given a short series of debates scheduled for odd weekend time slots when few people were likely to watch.
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"Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics," on view through April 20083, 22008, puts 217 of the artist's paintings and sculpture, as well as multiple studies, in conversation with 21764 Japanese artworks dating from the late 10th through 19th centuries.
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"Under Milk Wood" narrated the story of a small town almost like the one I'd grown up in, full of beautiful eccentrics and furtive secrets and closed minds and the unspoken notion that the entire world is holy.
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"The Chris Gethard Show is a wild, wonderful community of inclusive eccentrics, which is also a pretty spot-on description of many of the folks on Reddit," said Puja Vohra, executive vice president of marketing and digital for truTV.
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"London is my home and I love photographing all the wonderful colourful characters it [has]: the eccentrics, the artists, the crazies, the bohemians, and the crazy nutty woman who lives around the corner who owns 50 cats," she said.
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He was driven in his pursuit of ratings and entertainment, sandwiching hard-hitting political or social segments between interviews with boy bands, eccentrics and local heroes — anything that would grip an audience and keep people talking through the week.
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For some time, I'd been concerned that the party was heading into a dead end of largely symbolic extremism, and Gingrich's surge in a pack that included unelectable eccentrics like Herman Cain and Ron Paul, for me, clinched it.
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Their engagement in the world offers a vivid contrast with both the Jewish caricatures in "Café Society" and the tedious eccentrics populating Alain Guiraudie's "Staying Vertical," about a filmmaker who raises his baby alone after the child's mother understandably splits.
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The child of eccentrics, she made clothing choices that were unusual (flea-market finds, and a bit of T.J. Maxx mixed with Moroccan textiles) and her behavior was sometimes more so, at least to the mean girls who shunned her.
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" She certainly made herself at home in the shabby old-world elegance of the late-20th century grande dame of a hotel, frequently joining a tattered collection of neighborhood eccentrics at the Palm Court, wearing, "the same old purple dress.
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The island is inhabited by fauna and flora with exotic names like "puk-puk geese" and "mushi-mush" trees; the townsfolk are the kind of nonthreatening eccentrics you'd find on "Gilmore Girls"; the only dangerous area is a forest overrun with bloodsucking iguanas.
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"I'm always drawn to the eccentrics in each field of music and I love that a club like fabric, that is such a mainstay of London's clubbing landscape, is also the de facto London home of dance music's foremost eccentric," explained the producer.
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Pat de Groot, a painter who embodied an era when the beaches and dunes at the tip of Cape Cod were peopled with artistic geniuses and incorrigible eccentrics — often in the form of the same person — died on July 2100 in Brewster, Mass.
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Often, they feature eccentrics and visionaries who see things that others are blind to — like Mr. Beane of the A's, or Michael Burry, the misanthropic hedge fund manager in "The Big Short," who made a fortune by betting against the housing market.
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And no matter how dead any of the eccentrics or maniacs or divas appeared to be, how far away from the president their status as fired or resigned or never-hired-in-the-first-place should have logically rendered them, nobody was ever truly gone.
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Editors' Choice Let's celebrate the eccentrics and obsessives this week, the visionaries and reclusive cranks who spend decades on a single project or a singular body of work and wait for the culture — that is to say, for you and me — to catch up.
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Across their next four albums, they continued to dabble with the mainstream, while pushing their music to new levels, including an entire dub version of 2009's Tonight titled Blood and a full-album collaboration with glam rock eccentrics Sparks under the guise of FFS.
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Like earlier Macintyre books set during that war ("Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies" and "Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory"), this volume features an ensemble of eccentrics, mavericks and malcontents.
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Patrick Melrose isn't much of a challenge for an actor who's brilliantly portrayed real eccentrics like Julian Assange and Alan Turing, but it's fun to watch Mr. Cumberbatch riffing through the voices in Patrick's head during his cocaine binges in "Bad News" (more fun than it was to read).
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So Monday night's tribute concert was made in his image, gathering several New York-area rappers and a few out-of-towners, with a range of styles: the rigorous classicists Joey Badass and Action Bronson, the eccentrics Flatbush Zombies and Lil Uzi Vert, pugnacious toughs like Dash and Retch, and more.
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An elite, halfway-underground network of scientists, sages, eccentrics, and psychedelic cognoscenti—including Brave New World author Aldous Huxley and Saskatchewan-based psychiatrist Humphry Osmond—had started experimenting with psychedelics including mescaline and LSD in the mid-1950s, believing the drugs to be powerful conduits to transcendental, other-worldly experiences.
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"I was so annoyed by his challenge," said Mr. Murakami, who had first seen the Shohaku image reproduced in Professor Tsuji's 1970 book "Lineage of Eccentrics" tracing the wild originality of six artists from the Edo period (1615-1868), a volume that Mr. Murakami had found inspirational as a young artist.
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Once consecrated in place of Christianity, he suggests, high culture is now experiencing its own crisis of belief: Like revelation and tradition before it, "the value of a canon … can no longer be assumed," leaving the humane pursuits as an option for eccentrics rather than something essential for an educated life.
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It's about eccentrics and experimenters, like the Welsh trio Rozi Plain, whose serenely minimal songs bristle inside with hints of Krautrock; the D.J.-producer JLin, who pushes the brittle, spasmodic rhythms of Chicago footwork to startling extremes; and the Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes, who moved from abstract vocalizations to rapid-fire rhymes in Chinese.
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There is a song with Cam'ron, "Bright Pink Tims," that alludes to the rapper's preferred color; another track, "Gucci Linen," which takes its name from a Cam'ron lyric (or perhaps an ASAP Yams tweet); and a song, "Candy Apple," that features Paul Wall and Riff Raff, two of Houston rap's white eccentrics.
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Support for a so-called People's Vote on the terms of Britain's exit from the EU was confined to a motley group of die-hards, no-hopers and eccentrics who spent more time feuding over technicalities (should 16-year-olds be given a say this time round?) than they did making their case to the people.
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The irresistible plot turned the major in charge of the company (Marvin) into a sneerer at fatuous military authority and a harsh disciplinarian who nonetheless stood up for every man in his charge; the criminals, more eccentrics than psychopaths, turn out to be heroes when they blow up their target, a luxurious rest house for German officers.
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He's aboard a bus filled with colorful eccentrics -- featuring Keegan-Michael Key, Trevante Rhodes, Thomas Jane and "Game of Thrones'" Alfie Allen -- before mounting an escape, with McKenna leading the squabbling group on a hellbent chase to stop the predator and save McKenna's son ("Room's" Jacob Tremblay), who is in possession of alien tech that his dad (idiotically, it's worth noting) sent him.
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Gus has the good fortune to be born into a family of eccentrics — a character among characters — led by Judith, an only child who grew up with pet iguanas, knew dogs better than children, got married at 30 to John, a 60-year-old divorced British opera singer who doesn't like mess or noise, and eventually settled into a nearby apartment in Manhattan: a two-apartment marriage arrangement.
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A guy who hung out around campus, long-haired, scraggly-bearded, a kind of sloppy, happy-go-lucky, sinister phony, a powerfully persuasive and manipulative guy with a malodorous charm about him, Charlie Manson before anybody had heard of Charles Manson, other than my friend and his coterie of fellow eccentrics and visionaries who circulated among themselves counterculture news and views through a kind of crude precursor of the Internet before anybody else had heard of Internet or Manson.
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The 21st century has delivered two related crises, running concurrently: a humanitarian one, as Michael Greenberg, writing in The New York Review of Books, recently described the housing emergencies that have left more than 60,000 homeless in New York and tens of thousands of others on the edge of vagrancy; and a cultural unraveling that has devalued, if not hostilely rejected, the significance of workers, bohemians and eccentrics (the struggling ones) to the city's operating system.
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If you are wondering whether or not Letterkenny is for you, ask yourself: Do you like the mix of the surreal and totally mundane on the Canadian series Trailer Park Boys; the community of eccentrics on (the also Canadian) Schitt's Creek; dirtbag hangout shows like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; the anarchic vibe of Irish series Derry Girls; or '90s-era, pre-edgelord South Park when it was mostly about foul-mouthed kids making trouble in a "shitty little mountain town"?
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Now, Billy Monk: Defiance and Decadence Under Apartheid, an exhibition of 20 gelatin silver prints made from Monk's original black-and-white negatives, which is on view at The Container, in Tokyo's Nakameguro district, offers compelling evidence that Monk's flash-lit snaps of sailors, prostitutes, transvestites, dock workers, musicians, and young people out for booze-filled, lust-driven nights on the town, which he shot on fine-grain film with a standard, 35mm lens, have begun to earn a place alongside the iconic images of eccentrics and demimonde figures of such noted modern photographers as Brassaï, Frank Horvat, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, and Nobuyoshi Araki.
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