Word: offbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...else the papers had fun concocting elaborate fantasies. The San Francisco Examiner invented a staff writer named "Grant Wheat" (tip of the cap there to the late Grantland Rice) who proclaimed the strike settled on Tuesday and then proceeded to march the teams through a schedule full of offbeat surprises-terrible hitters suddenly erupting in orgies of homers, for example...
Gaddes cannot readily explain his success with the offbeat. Perhaps his apprenticeship at the Santa Fe Opera -the prototype of the innovative summer company-has something to do with it, as well as his urbane salesmanship. Gaddes also credits public interest in the exciting young singers who have appeared with the company and admits that the BBC's telecast of the 1978 Albert Herring raised the company immeasurably in the eyes of opera-hungry St. Louisans...
...much that it will precipitate disaster; it is rather that the whole concept of nationalization and Keynesian government intervention seems to belong to an outmoded 1960s-style of economic tinkering that has failed wherever it has been tried. Mitterrand seems to be marching to a distant and offbeat drummer and in the wrong direction. "This [nationalization] project," writes Historian Raymond Aron, "bears witness to the Socialist Party's archaic ideas." Says a prominent French banker: "The French don't do anything like other people. At the moment when all the great countries of the world turn away from...
Kenneth Uston, 47, is an American success story: Phi Beta Kappa in economics at Yale, Harvard M.B.A., a former senior vice president of the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, who in 1975 quit his $50,000 job to follow an offbeat, not to say raffish, entrepreneurial dream-and made it work...
Eyewitness flops as a suspense story, but manages to intrigue with its mix of characters, quirky, offbeat and enjoyable. Writer Steve Tesich and director Peter Yates, the Breaking Away team, transplant their cornfed eccentricities onto the mean streets of New York City. The characters in Breaking Away enchanted with their resilient innocence, their wholesomeness resting naturally in the heart of Indiana. In New York City, the wholesomeness vanishes; the friendly idiosyn-cracies become fatal flaws...