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  • Mr. Echenoz's most recent books compose what has been called his Eccentric Genius trilogy: brief biographical novels that apply his accustomed jesting and sidelong approach to the lives of oddball, real-life iconoclasts.

    A Window Onto Comic Tedium Sam Sacks 2011

  • Eccentric is given a diagnosis, and if there's any way for a profit to be made, medicated and hospitalized.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • I first heard about the ceremony when I was doing research for a book called Eccentric America.

    Katherine Meusey: Ig Nobel Prizes: Think First, Then Laugh Katherine Meusey 2011

  • After 1950 she went the full decade without showing, though MoMa bought one of her pieces; in 1960 she was in shows in Paris and at the Whitney, then in 1966 the critic Lucy Lippard, who, like so many New Yorkers, had known her effectively as Goldwater's appendage, saw her work, was astonished by it, and included it in the show she was organising called Eccentric Abstraction.

    Louise Bourgeois obituary 2010

  • And the first moving of a planet is made in its own circle that is called Eccentric, and it is called so for the earth is not the middle thereof, as it is the middle of the circle that is called Zodiac.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • I first heard about the ceremony when I was doing research for a book called Eccentric America.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Katherine Meusey 2011

  • After 1950 she went the full decade without showing, though MoMa bought one of her pieces; in 1960 she was in shows in Paris and at the Whitney, then in 1966 the critic Lucy Lippard, who, like so many New Yorkers, had known her effectively as Goldwater's appendage, saw her work, was astonished by it, and included it in the show she was organising called Eccentric

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • After 1950 she went the full decade without showing, though MoMa bought one of her pieces; in 1960 she was in shows in Paris and at the Whitney, then in 1966 the critic Lucy Lippard, who, like so many New Yorkers, had known her effectively as Goldwater's appendage, saw her work, was astonished by it, and included it in the show she was organising called Eccentric

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Nikki had an amazing line of clothes called Eccentric Symphony and distributed her music as the hangtag … I was a fan.

    Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010

  • "Jon [Bon Jovi] and I had this idea for a song, 'White Trash Beautiful', and I said this song sounds like a clothing line - Nikki had an amazing line of clothes called Eccentric Symphony and I was a fan," Sambora said about his inspiration for the range.

    All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News 2010

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