In early 1976, I was a Talk of the Town reporter for this magazine, doing stories about parties and rock concerts and local eccentrics — and feeling a little restless.
Except if I'm recalling correctly, adolescents secretly like feeling eccentric and freakish and alone, hoarding pop arcana and cultivating ever-dweebier erudition.
This is the most mainstream feature that Mr. Van Sant has done since "Finding Forrester," even if its eccentric flourishes and deep feeling are unmistakably his own.
In "Gabrielle," a film of eccentric beauty and wild feeling, printed words sometimes fill the screen, almost obliterating the puny creatures struggling beneath the type.
By now it is well known that the picture of the scientist as the eccentric personality without human feeling, pursuing truth by the numbers, wearing sterile gloves at all times, is false.
Graphics pop up describing her feelings about her eccentric family, including a "bad advice" counter that has already clicked off into the thousands.
I remember feeling comfortable around their eccentric tenants.
Television has brought us a ceaseless supply of men and women between 22 and 45 who labor to seem eccentric and who express precisely that feeling.
In contrast to cognition and volition, which are "eccentric" and directed towards the "outer," feeling or affectivity [Gefühl or Empfindung] is the awareness of inwardness or interiority.
Ultimately, however, the main excitement of Mr. Büchel's ingenious construction is the Alice in Wonderland feeling of entering a mysteriously eccentric and possibly nonsensical parallel universe.
