Word: offbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PASADENA DOO DAH PARADE. It all started as a spoof of the Rose Parade, but this zany California happening has taken on a life of its own. This year look for 125 offbeat groups, including the Synchronized Briefcase Drill Team and Snotty Scotty and the Hankies. Nov. 26; noon...
Before last week's unexpectedly close Virginia contest, Pollster Harrison Hickman got revealing results by making an offbeat correlation. When white voters were questioned by white pollsters, Hickman found, they favored Republican Marshall Coleman by 16 points. But when whites were telephoned by interviewers with recognizably black intonation, they leaned to Douglas Wilder by 10 points...
...Sachs is far more than a collector of critical viewpoints. She sifts through stacks of mail and scans dozens of newspapers for offbeat events to write up in the section. A hot-air balloon pageant in New Mexico caught her eye, as did a ten-day sausage festival in Texas. Says Sachs: "People have tremendous enthusiasm for their events and are genuinely delighted to have them included...
...However offbeat the part -- and she has played everything from a shaved- headed musician in the Auschwitz women's orchestra (Playing for Time) to / the transsexual physician Renee Richards (Second Serve) -- Redgrave never camps up a performance, never tips the audience the equivalent of a wink to distance herself from neurotic excess. She gives every character she plays her loyalty and respect. Trying to puzzle out how she achieves such artless naturalness, fellow actors gather to scrutinize her work. Says writer-director David Hare, who starred Redgrave in his movie Wetherby: "She's the one they all watch. Vanessa...
ALIVE FROM OFF CENTER (PBS, Aug. 30, 10 p.m. on most stations). Meredith Monk transports us to a medieval French village circa 1349 in Book of Days, the penultimate offering of this summer series of offbeat video works...