Despite its ambitious name, the event was confined almost entirely to Italy, where the Contigianis orchestrated a number of whimsical events: a reverse bicycle race in Ferrara (where the last rider was declared the winner); an afternoon of grandfathers reading poetry to children in the main square of Follonica; a celebration of the emblematically slow animal, the donkey, near Livorno.
For television, one hallmark of Sorkin's writer's voice is the repartee that his characters engage in as they small talk and banter about whimsical events taking place within an episode, and interject obscure popular culture references into conversation.
As for the new name, she said it's meant to be "whimsical": "Every event in your calendar marks a starting and stopping point in your day — similar to what a stanza represents within a poem".
Each of these events seems whimsical and arbitrary and yet, as Javier Marías shows in this masterly novel, chance is nothing but the result of our own negligent reading.
He staged events with whimsical themes, like a party he presented in 1984 at the Seventh Regiment Armory celebrating Bidermann's 10th anniversary.
The event has the whimsical title, Claire Rayner: Now with Wings, in spite of the fact that Rayner was a lifelong atheist, with reference to the ground-breaking television commercial she fronted in 1992.
While Mankell's novels, which have sold some 30 million copies worldwide, deal with gruesome murders and the dark side of his native Sweden, the author showcased his whimsical side at Friday's event.
The pliancy of the road novel, its easy subjectivity and whimsical, intuitive relationships with the events it encounters, stands as a metaphor for Doctorow's own flexible association with real-world history.
The closing event is a typically whimsical New Orleans tradition, but one that speaks to the way Williams permeates the city's cultural atmosphere.
With a billet that boasts of everything from folk and indie, to "sweaty rave music," Bestival is a music event that provides a whimsical escapism and erratic fun.
To pay the rent, they hold dinners with circus performances and build whimsical sets for movies and Hollywood events, like a giant fake oak tree in their living area that was used as décor at the Emmy Awards last year.
