TRIPOLI, Libya — It was perhaps only fitting that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi would be as unpredictable on the lam as he was in power for 42 eccentric years.
It was once said Eminem spent his first two albums being truly provocative, and has cruised along ever since commenting on those early, eccentric years in the crosshairs.
Now receding towards the farthest point in its eccentric 75 year orbit, Halley was some 4,200 million km distant in 2003, when its frozen quiescent nucleus was last imaged as a faint smudge a billion times too dim to be seen with the naked eye.
I had a lovely, bright, obedient 6-year-old daughter and a boisterous, energetic and "eccentric" 2-year-old son.
This ended a near 40-year association with the German champions for the successful, if eccentric, 72-year-old doctor, who resigned following Guardiola's comments, along with the rest of his backroom staff.
Bill Cunningham New York marvelled at the tireless 81-year-old New York Times street photographer, and featured Iris Apfel, the eccentric 93-year-old "geriatric starlet" and subject of Albert Maysles's Iris.
When they married in 1991, he was an ambitious but eccentric 26-year-old social climber who had interned at Congress, while she was a widowed 71-year-old socialite and former journalist.
Writer tells about a conversation with their eccentric 93-year-old grandmother.
An eccentric 25-year-old scholar, Knickerbocker relates this comic history of Dutch settlers in the American colony of New Amsterdam, satirizing Dutch-American mannerisms and retelling Dutch legends.
An exuberant and eccentric 70-year-old scientist who is considered the father of India's nuclear missile program was overwhelmingly elected president today by legislators.
