Mr. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with a gift for mimicry, a host of eccentric personalities and a reservoir of creative energy.
The Sages moved home, adopting a less eccentric style of life in a new, easy-to-clean, open-plan council house.
The British, known for a sometimes eccentric love of animals, have a special affection for donkeys.
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"Tramp art has a quirky and eccentric quality to it, a strangeness of form, " says Gerard C.
"You'll see squishy balls flying around the office, " he says, adding that he is a pretty eccentric entrepreneur, often working out of a sport-utility vehicle retrofitted with a three-foot-long desk, two computer screens, a fax machine and shredder.
Its out-of-place Italianate architecture, which dates back to the 1920s, is a mixture of decorative styles and eccentric designs, creating a fantasy land that was later used as the backdrop to the 1960s British sci-fi drama, The Prisoner.
He finds a patron in an eccentric neighbor who lends him a cherished Tononi violin.
Comprised of silicate rock, the asteroid rolls through its eccentric orbit like a tumbling potato.
Roman is said to be eccentric, maybe a little crazy, but he gets quick results and Wesley's need is urgent.
Mr. CRESSWELL: It's usually someone who comes in who's slightly eccentric, has a great sense of rhythm, and they're the ones that have a great character that stand out that will work in the show.
In their paper, the co-authors argue that gravitational tidal heating caused by the gravitational friction of an earth-like exo-moon on an eccentric orbit around a Jupiter-like planet lying at a Jupiter-like distance from its parent star, could, in fact, create habitable conditions.
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The owner of one of Kahn's more eccentric ventures, a concrete boat designed as a music barge in the 1960s and still in operation, was stunned to be visited by the child he had met so long ago, and dissolved into a tearful embrace.
The decision by Paul Ryan to produce an ideological extremist budget document rather than a real legislative negotiating position is eccentric, but it actually deserves a response and not just criticism.
He's happiest inventing eccentric word combinations like a musical linguist toying with strange sounds.
An eccentric woman arrives in a small town, rents an old house and opens a cram school.
Problem was, my ex was a known eccentric and didn't use communication tools of the modern age.
These Pinots (so-called because of the "pinecone" shape of their clusters) are a pretty eccentric group of fruits.
"We're all a bit odd...all a bit eccentric one might say, " Dickinson says, attempting to explain the group's longevity.
"I do agree that he is a very eccentric multi-millionaire and I also felt fear with him, " he said.
This chamber contains a slightly eccentric cylinder which can be rotated to make either the upper or the lower slots bigger.
My regal mien proposed to passersby that I was a delusionary eccentric.
I'd just turned 21 when I'd chosen a rather eccentric doctoral study.
"Our friends think that it's a slightly eccentric decision to send all our boys there but they all really enjoy it, " she says.
The first known gnome figure in Britain was bought in Germany by Sir Charles Isham, a rich eccentric, and installed at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire in the 1860s.
I'd rather get around on my bike than in a BMW. But to my lasting embarrassment, in my junior year, I traded my friends for a less eccentric crowd.
To see the road not taken, one need only think of that parallel fantasy masterpiece, written in exactly the same decades, and on a similar scale, by a similarly eccentric Englishman: T.
Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England.
"For a guy like me to be very eccentric, to even go to extremes to write a children's book with all the wild things I do and make it believable was pretty much incredible, " Rodman said.
Is it too much to predict some sort of eccentric exit, written by a team of humorists, within 90 days?
Lish, a voluble, eccentric, and literary man, began inviting Carver to his place for lunch and to talk about books.
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