The menu holds the attention from the start, with its eccentric line-up of co-star ingredients.
Over a Côtes-du-Rhône recently at a French restaurant on Duluth Street in Montreal, she said, "I come from an eccentric line of animal people".
Pendleton's bespectacled, jerky charm and eccentric line readings were too often used as self-consciously "quirky" elements, but he moved past that by becoming a prodigious director who got audiences to see movie performers like Elizabeth Taylor in different ways.
Given a solid production, his sly glances, Midwestern-patrician inflections and eccentric line readings should be enough to keep a show going — especially on CBS, where crime procedurals have survived for years on less.
At If SoHo, 94 Grand Street. 5. Stetson, the iconic American hatmaker, and the celebrated South African milliner Albertus Swanepoel have teamed up to create a highly eccentric line of hats.
Details include jagged bannisters that reproduce the eccentric line of the roof, and the walls are painted not in the white of a typical museum but in a soft, glowing mint green.
"I love the disrespect, taking received ideas and saying, 'You know, I'll do what I want.' " Mr. Couturier, in his dapper dementia, could be the last of the Surrealists at home: the end of an eccentric line that began in the 17th and 18th centuries with the rich folly of kings' taste and lastly decorated the dreams of Surrealist art in the 20th century.
What appear to be expressive nudes rendered in a language of gestural, eccentric line drawing, draped in transparent or translucent retro fashions, is in fact nearly the opposite.
As for his notoriously eccentric line readings, Corrigan might also have been speaking of his entire career when he noted, "It's all a roll of the dice.
In the first act his eccentric, whinnying line readings reminded me of a child pounding randomly on the piano keys, making lots of noise without actually making music.
