Word: eccentricism
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CHARGED. PHIL SPECTOR, 64, eccentric record producer who created the "wall of sound" pop style in the 1960s; in the murder of Lana Clarkson, 40, last year; in Los Angeles. The actress was working as a hostess at the House of Blues on the night she went home with Spector...
Back then, after a week-long fast in 1976 on the chilly summit of Hobart's Mount Wellington to protest against the visit of an American nuclear warship, Brown had a growing profile in Tasmania as a slightly eccentric, shy but deeply earnest young man. At Liffey he tried to...
DIED. GEOFFREY BEENE, 77; one of America 's most original fashion designers; of complications from pneumonia; in New York City. The Louisiana native first landed in Manhattan in the 1950s and started his line in 1963, raising the standards of American design with technical innovations, sumptuous fabrics and minimalist creations...
Businesses these days are obsessed with outsourcing, and the fashion business is no different. You could say that the European designers on display at the spring 2005 collection last week in Milan went beyond manufacturing clothes abroad; they outsourced their inspiration. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who had recently traveled...
In Huckabees, Russell mixes an A-list cast (Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Dustin Hoffman) with a surrealist plot, philosophical conundrums and the eccentric and frenetic tale of an environmental activist who hires two “existentialist detectives” to sort out his life, loves and hates.