Word: offbeaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Narrow strips combine khaki color, ruddy brown, and chocolate brown with black for another distinctive pattern of the year. Dramatic paisleys are popular on lightweight cotton challis dresses. Offbeat colors--for example, an olive, turquoise, and pink combination--often add an imaginative touch...
...ignominious strikeout or a sad walk to the showers. As the theme of a novel, this carries its own banality if only because no decent reader would want to quarrel with it. What makes Bang the Drum Slowly unique in current fiction is Author Harris' mastery of his offbeat scene. His charr:ters all talk alike, and so the dialogue begins to sound monotonous, but basically the talk is natural, larded with casual humor, earthiness and more than a touch of locker-room obscenity. If the characters are no more than onedimensional, it is a dimension that Harris...
...been so widely anticipated that the official announcement sold fewer extra papers than an unexpected no might have done. The day's most offbeat headline (over a huge picture of a grinning Ike): the New York Daily News's FORE! ! The most original comment ran on the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser's editorial page. It was an uncaptioned photograph taken months ago at a prankish Arizona reception and blown up big. The picture showed Adlai Stevenson with a hangman's noose around his neck...
...SHAPE'S annual dining-in affair in Paris, glittering with NATO's top brass, slightly offbeat but recognizable supper music rose from the Royal Canadian Signal Corps band under the batons of amateur conductors, choppy General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and his first deputy, stabby Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein...
Only You (The Platters; Mercury). The rock-'n'-roll set is gobbling this one up fast. Its gimmick: a regular snapping sound on the offbeat, like a whipcrack. The lead singer, presumably frightened by that whip, shrieks in a quivering, gasping falsetto. A nerve-racking specimen of the continuing rock-'n'-roll dementia...