Word: offbeat
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...overprotective of the television shows I like, especially when it’s clear from their low production values and offbeat humor that they’re not their network’s biggest priority. Over the last six months, I’ve grown very fond of ABC’s “Modern Family.” So, when advertisements for NBC’s “Parenthood” began to saturate commercial breaks in February, I took it personally...
...later joined by banjoist Earl Scruggs and singer/guitarist Lester Flatt. Bluegrass, whose instrumentation includes guitar, banjo, mandolin, double bass, and fiddle, emerged as a kind of commercially disseminated folk music a decade later. It then began to permeate early rock music in unexpected ways: the offbeat mandolin chop characteristic of bluegrass music, for example, eventually evolved into the snare-drum offbeat in rock and roll...
...GALLERY DE VIE Part shop, part art space, Gallery de Vie, (45 Gough Street) combines an eclectic assemblage of fashion and lifestyle goods - from funky handbags and hipster wristbands to Holga toy cameras and Moleskine notebooks - with regularly changing art exhibitions of a decidedly offbeat nature...
...Claude Debussy’s electrifying trio of symphonic poems. Debussy’s orchestration plays with texture and tone just as impressionist painters manipulate light and color, and the ensemble demonstrated a remarkable talent for this tonal experimentation. From the mystic wind and high string introduction to offbeat trills and pizzicato sequences in the second movement, the orchestra adeptly drifted in and out of various keys and tonalities without losing its crucial sense of rhythmic grounding...
However, your eyes stop at a giant wooden shelf with only one thing on it—an old Yiddish typewriter. “That was given to my wife, who is a novelist and a philosopher, Rebecca Goldstein,” explains Pinker regarding the offbeat decoration. “It might have been used by Isaac Bashevis Singer—it’s from the teens or twenties, and this is one of our prized possessions...