Word: offbeat
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...with things to sell. And while the green-card lawyers were creating a diversion, hundreds of businesses were quietly staking out the territory. Silicon Graphics, a computer manufacturer, uses the Internet to distribute software and answer customer questions. Joe Boxer, a San Francisco design firm that makes colorful and offbeat men's briefs, invites customers to submit "underwear stories" to its Internet address joeboxer.com...
...conservation center—once home to an army dormitory—is adorned with framed movie posters, from “La Dolce Vita” to the offbeat Maggie Gyllenhaal flop “Secretary...
DIED. GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE, 75, inventive Cuban-born novelist known for his offbeat humor and vivid evocations of pre-Castro Cuba; of a blood infection; in London. An exile since the early 1960s, he was best known for his 1967 novel Tres Tristes Tigres (later published in English as Three Trapped Tigers), a loving, pyrotechnic paean to the energetic night life of old Havana...
BMOP brings these new composers to new audiences, performing not only in traditional classical music spaces but also at offbeat venues such as the Moonshine Room at Club Café in Boston...
...speakers and some media-playing software, such as RealPlayer (www.real.com), Winamp (www.winamp.com) or Windows Media Player (www.microsoft.com). These players can be downloaded for free and come loaded with a select list of Web stations. Here's a pick of the Web's best broadcasters of the offbeat and seldom heard...