Word: offbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's because this band shies away from heavy songs dripping with meaning, blending instead the music hall tradition of tunes that tell stories (albeit purposely offbeat ones), familiar relationship ditties (such as their micro-hit "I Want You Back" of a year or two ago), and the sort of vague idealism numbers that all bands that critics like must have...
...desired. But as a novel it is above average. Read as pure novel, Texas is not bad entertainment, even if it is long. The reading goes quickly, and even if the outlook it produces is skewed, it does give non-Texans a thorough exposure to a remarkable, offbeat place and its equally remarkable and offbeat people. Anyone who can remember one tenth of the details will be a walking encyclopedia of things Texan from the number of types of cactus in Big Ben National Park to the unlikely origin of "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Texas...
Clad in unusually conservative attire, offbeat rock musician Frank Zappa last night attacked a parents group which is fighting obscenity in popular music...
...offbeat note, the Iorg brothers, Toronto's Garth and Kansas City's Dane became the first pair of siblings ever to meet in championship series history. The Iorgs went two-for-two on the evening...
...Hoops and the Star Wars robot Artoo-Detoo. Since the program concentrates on the U.S., it tends to highlight American mistakes and triumphs rather than those of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, the cold war themes are handled with sophistication and balance. ABC's 40-year journey offers fresh, sometimes offbeat details about many of the terrain's landmarks and a knowing sense of how they shaped the modern world...