The two-act concept album consisted of six original songs on side one and a whimsical psychedelic fairy tale on side two relating the adventures of " Happiness Stan " and his need to find out where the moon went when it waned.

Usually said specials will present Dora with a bigger, more whimsical adventure than usual or with a magical task that must be fulfilled, or perhaps even offer a series of different adventures for Boots and Dora to travel through.

After a brief period of post-regenerative confusion and amnesia ( chemically induced by the Rani ), the Seventh Doctor thwarted the Rani's plans, and rejoined his companion Mel for whimsical adventures in an odd tower block and a Welsh holiday camp in the 1950s.

Done in the style of the Marvel Family books and similarly whimsical ( this Captain had a large T on his shirt instead of a lightning bolt ), the ads appeared in comic books ( published by both Fawcett and its rivals ) and in Sunday comic strip sections of newspapers.

The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster in two rather whimsical letters to Nature in 1898, in which he coined the term.

In the mainstream of Georgian style were both Palladian architecture — and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie, which were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo.

The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.

She also came from stage acting and had a girlish / whimsical charm to which audiences responded.

The furtive process by which the MOA-AD was designed and crafted runs contrary to and in excess of the legal authority and amounts to a whimsical, capricious, oppressive, arbitrary and despotic exercise thereof.

The foremost dancer is ornamented all over with down feathers, which gives him a monkey-like appearance ; the hindermost has had the whimsical idea of painting his body to imitate the uniform of a Spanish soldier, with his boots, stockings, breeches, and upper garments.

Beck favored a cartoony versus realistic rendering of character and setting, which also came to be reflected in the whimsical scripting ( by Otto Binder and others ).

After Dark was an early screensaver for the Macintosh platform, and later PC / Windows, which prominently featured whimsical designs such as flying toasters.

When Jughead's family objected to Hot Dog living indoors because he was covered in dirt, Dilton Doiley built Hot Dog a doghouse full of whimsical inventions, which was the kickoff plot for the miniseries Hot Dog.

The museum features an eclectic collection of antiques ( particularly electronics and arcade games ) and dozens of examples of proprietor John Preble's folk art, which ranges from the whimsical to the macabre.

In writing to George Devine, who directed the Old Vic production, Beckett suggests that “ the inquirer ( light ) begins to emerge as no less a victim of his inquiry than they and as needing to be free, within narrow limits, literally to act the part, i. e. to vary only slightly his speeds and intensities .” But the role of the light is even more ambiguous, for it has also been seen as “ a metaphor for our attention ( relentless, all-consuming, whimsical )” and a way of “ switching on and switching off speech exactly as a playwright does when he moves from one line of dialogue on his page to the next .” Neither of these analogies conflicts with the more popular views where the spotlight is believed by to represent God, or some other moral agent tasked with assessing, each character's case to be relieved from the binds of the urn by having them relive this relationship, which has ruined all their lives.

Larnie Reid Fox popularised the idea of the DiceWalk, which was featured in the May 28, 2003 edition of sfweekly, students of psychogeography having already pioneered the art or science of random or whimsical excursions.

One of his first publications was entitled Gerania ; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies ( 1675 ), a whimsical sketch to which Swift's Voyage to Lilliput possibly owes something.

At a 1934 dinner for Lewis, Pepper called him " one of the most lovable and whimsical personalities which any of us have met in a lifetime.

A whimsical name – presumably from Scotland or nearby England – was " white wisky John " in reference to its wavy and somewhat unelegant flight, during which its large areas of light plumage are conspicuous.

The word was probably coined as a whimsical adaptation of aerobraking, which is the process of slowing a space vehicle by the use of friction against a planet's atmosphere.

Tinker and Masius had brought a whimsical, soapy tone to the series which they were known for on St.

Seafair begins in early July ; since 1972, its arrival has been heralded by the Milk Carton Derby, a whimsical boat race on Green Lake in which all the boats have been constructed out of empty milk cartons.

In the mainstream of Georgian style were both Palladian architecture — and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie, which were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo.

Later students of the whimsical problem came up with solutions which managed to avoid any inconsistencies, by having the ball emerge from the future at a different angle than the one used to generate the paradox, and deliver its younger self a glancing blow instead of knocking it completely away from the wormhole, a blow which changes its trajectory in just the right way so that it will travel back in time with the angle required to deliver its younger self this glancing blow.

The film's name is a direct reference to American sitcoms, which are noted for their focus on traditional family values and whimsical humour.

During the steamer trunk restoration process when the inside paper covering is removed, you will sometimes find whimsical dated notes in lead pencil made by the original craftsman as well as the circular saw blade impressions made on the rough-cut wood at the saw mill both of which give added character and value to the restored trunk.

It included the whimsical pop tune, " Two Cabs to the Toucan ".

Bowie's influences at this stage of his career included the theatrical tunes of Anthony Newley, music hall numbers by acts like Tommy Steele, some of the more whimsical and ' British ' material by Ray Davies of The Kinks, Syd Barrett's slightly cracked nursery rhymes for the early Pink Floyd, and the Edwardian flam shared by such contemporary songs as The Beatles ' " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite ".

Austin included painted or wooden scenes of palaces, farms, and other settings above the ground level, for a whimsical look.

Influenced by the Madchester style of music of the The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, as well as punk / new wave bands New Order and The Cure, the Numbskulls catalogue included whimsical lyrics juxtaposed against repetitive keyboards, trance-like drumming, melodic vocals and quirky punk guitar hooks.

As the gifted pen-and-ink draftsman " Hogarth, Jr .", Kent created a wealth of whimsical and irreverent drawings published by Vanity Fair, New York Tribune, Harper's Weekly, and the original Life.

Provensen's original art design for the tiger has changed significantly over the years, as Tony the whimsical, cereal-box-sized tiger with a teardrop-shaped head was replaced by his fully-grown son Jr., who is now a sleek, muscular sports enthusiast -- he was a coach for the Monster Wrestlers in My Pocket and a referee for the Monster Sports Stars in My Pocket ( see Monster in My Pocket ).

* Cakes and Ale ( 2 vols., 1842 ), a collection of short papers and whimsical stories

The house consisted of eight rooms that could be whimsical versions of traditional rooms in a typical home ( e. g., a living room, a bathroom, a den or a kitchen ), or complete fantasy rooms, such as " Sherlock's Study ," " Ali-Baba's Bathroom ", a Pastry Shop, or " Frankenstein's Laboratory.

The phrase Uncle Tom Cobley and all is used in British English as a humorous or whimsical way of saying et al., often to express exasperation at the large number of people in a list.

Students' choices of ideal educational goals are not arbitrary or whimsical.

The open books represent the intellectual pursuits of a university, and the wolves heads are a whimsical representation of the University's location in Wolfville.

This idea, while whimsical, is quite difficult to fathom when one is confronted with the fact that at various times in Russian history, the playing of the balalaika was banned because of its use by the skomorokhi, who were generally highly irritating to both church and state.

" Her father did have a natural aptitude for drawing and the sisters were charmed by his whimsical sketches of animals.

A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.

" and " We've Got a Bigger Problem Now " placed the Dead Kennedys as the spokesmen of social protest, while " Dog Bite ", a cover version of Rawhide and various joke introductions showed a much more whimsical side.

The result was both whimsical and practical.

Bizarre and imaginary, invented lands include sci-fi worlds, fairy tale settings or other whimsical locales are common settings.

Jim Henson produced two iconic fantasy films in the 80s, that being the solemn and grave The Dark Crystal and the more whimsical and lofty Labyrinth.

Often whimsical, these pieces display Rossini's natural ease of composition and gift for melody, showing obvious influences of Beethoven and Chopin, with many flashes of the composer's long buried desire for serious, academic composition.

He also penned several short stories, ranging from hard science fiction to whimsical fantasy.

Nasreddin often appears as a whimsical character of a large Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Judeo-Spanish, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Turkish and Urdu folk tradition of vignettes, not entirely different from zen koans.

* surreal, whimsical, esoterically or literary-inspired, lyrics.

Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics " roots rock ", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-based heavy rock.

The psychedelic-influenced and whimsical strand of British folk continued into the 1970s with acts including Comus, Mellow Candle, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Forest and Trees and with Syd Barrett's two solo albums.

Frontman and songwriter David Byrne contributed whimsical, esoteric lyrics to the band's songs, and emphasized their showmanship through various multimedia projects and performances.

The event differs each time and is often caused inexplicably, and is frequently psychedelic and strange, yet whimsical.

Other enduring features have been " Goings on About Town ", a listing of cultural and entertainment events in New York, and " The Talk of the Town ", a miscellany of brief pieces — frequently humorous, whimsical or eccentric vignettes of life in New York — written in a breezily light style, or feuilleton, although in recent years the section often begins with a serious commentary.

::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.

Perhaps its best-known appearance is in Lewis Carroll's whimsical poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter " that appears in his 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass.

The flexible fantasy framework of the show accommodates a considerable range of theatrical styles, from high melodrama to slapstick comedy, from whimsical and musical to all-out action and adventure.