Despite the cultivated kookiness, this is not an operation with a soft centre.

BBC: A targeted message from Obama 2012

Since Kitchen, she has cranked out novels with Honda-like efficiency, always imbuing them with cosmic kookiness and airy musings.

CNN: Fruits of Her Labor

The people who loved me considered my kookiness endearing.

CNN: SHARE THIS

Unlike many of her Hollywood counterparts who wear runway looks exactly like as they are shown on the catwalk, Fan Bingbing knows how to inject an element of surprise and even a touch of kookiness into her ensembles, whether its through an improvised turban like the one she donned at an Elie Saab show or through the many incarnations of her hair style.

FORBES: Is Fan Bingbing the Cate Blanchett or Lady Gaga of China