Word: offbeat
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...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...
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...
Despite their success, neither man is in business to lose money, and both were appalled at their problems with Starsky and Hutch, a shoot-'em-up centered on two offbeat policemen. Their lawyer, William Hayes, 59, repeatedly asked ABC to help them out. ABC made additional payments, and then refused to give another dollar. According to the D.A.'s report, Hayes says that former ABC Vice President George Reeves told him: "No, I can't help you. Don't even come ask me, because everybody here has had it up to their ears with Starsky...
BREUER'S THEATER is undoubtedly "experimental"-it calls itself that, and unsympathetic audiences will probably label it "offbeat" at best, "crazy" at worst. Purists will argue that in manipulating an actor's voice electronically Breuer is betraying the idea of live performance. They should consider that lighting has been an acceptable directorial tool since the turn of the century; yet when a director shines different colored or powered lights on a performer from different directions, he is doing with vision essentially the same as Breuer is with hearing: manipulating the path a performance travels on its way from the actor...
...craftsmanship were the LP's only virtue, it would be a superior record. But Simon has too much poetry in him to let arranging skill carry his songs alone. Offbeat, ambiguous images pop up in "That's Why God Made the Movies," "Oh, Marion" and "God Bless the Absentee," adding color to the vaguely melancholy feel of the verses. Simon has his occasional missteps--"How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns" is an awkward hook line no matter how cleverly it scans. But the album is more than redeemed by compelling lines like "Who was the witness to the dream/Who...