They are dressed in colorful clothes, usually in an eccentric version of traditional Japanese clothes.

In the late 1970's, while working as a slyly irreverent weathercaster at KNBC in Los Angeles, he presided over an eccentric Sunday-afternoon version that featured non-celebrities.

On the other hand, in his eccentric version of "Fathers and Sons," entitled "Nothing Sacred," the Canadian playwright George F. Walker offers no such disclaimer, though one would seem necessary.

Mr. Tillmans mixes work from previous shows with new images in his characteristically eccentric version of a salon-style hanging.

The former is an eccentric version of a concentric movement, and the latter is a concentric version of an eccentric movement.

Wild Man Fischer recorded an eccentric version that was included on The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records.

Others seem to connect with Americans' inner G.I. Joe: the H2, after all, is an offshoot of the military Humvee transport and its eccentric civilian version, the Hummer H1.

It was viewed as an eccentric version of Greek art, and so forgers had a field day.

Peter Greenaway's visually extravagant, eccentric version of Shakespeare's "Tempest," with John Gielgud as Prospero guiding us through the books he has taken to his island exile.

It is not that this eccentric version of the Pirc Defense was refuted - only one game, the first, was lost with it and the others resulted in quick draws.