During the decades of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's harsh and eccentric rule, the building housed the prime minister and his top officials.
The demands came as anxiety eased in Tripoli, more than a week after rebel forces seized Colonel Qaddafi's compound here in heavy fighting that marked his political demise after nearly 42 years of harsh and eccentric rule.
Though Qaddafi's was the weakest owing to his eccentric rule that had left him without an effective military defectors from his ramshackle forces had little to rely on to organize resistance to him.
It illuminates and justifies Tuymans's eccentric work rule, with its distant redolence of Jackson Pollock's odd decision to paint in the air above a canvas.
As John Anderson's "Art Held Hostage" makes clear, the place is the brilliant creation of a roughshod eccentric who ruled his dominion with equal measures of snobbery and democratic ideals.
Moscow is largely out of energy and ideas; the conflict may have crossed into a state of intractability.Chechnya itself, the site of two wars and the historic homeland of the Tsarnaev family, has, at least on the surface, been pacified under the eccentric and brutal rule of Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic's 36 year-old president.
But now that Colonel Qaddafi is gone, many believe that the militias' work is done, creating an open, and sometimes contentious, question for the fighters and the interim government that is working to build a new state from the ruins of 42 years of Colonel Qaddafi's brutal, eccentric and narcissistic rule.
But short of tossing chickens or ball bearings in Armstrong's way as eccentric new ground rules, the Tour could not stop the charismatic Texan from taking over the leader's yellow jersey.
Only a year into his trip, while living under the protection of the "white Rajah of Sarawak" — an eccentric Englishman who ruled a little fiefdom on the northern coast of Borneo and who, Slotten claims, furnished the model for Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" — Wallace formulated what became known as "the Sarawak Law".
For just shy of four decades, this daughter of a titled Dutch diplomat and an eccentric Egyptian socialite ruled tout Paris through a cocktail of fear and intimidation, a prickly charisma that left its targets exhausted, and fancy-dress balls on a scale and level of inventiveness that died when she did, at the age of 65 in 1996.
The eccentric Oyarbide, who ruled in record time that the incredible accumulation of wealth of the Kirchners was completely legitimate, was a necessary participant in the aforementioned collection system.
