Word: offbeaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Upstairs (English). A taut, offbeat thriller, crisply written and directed, about a psychotic scientist holed up on the top floor of a rooming house, and how his fellow lodgers coax him into coming down...
...Beach's Columbus Avenue, a dozen customers once constituted an oxygen problem at the City Lights bookstore, run by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 40, as a combination Beat Haven and publishing house. Now the crush is so great that the bookstore has been expanded, and Ferlinghetti's only slightly offbeat A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions) has sold a surprising 15,000 copies. The really far-out beatniks do even better. Allen Ginsberg's effete epic, Howl, published by Ferlinghetti, is up to 40,000 copies in print, and Fantasy Records is preparing a disk of Ginsberg...
...Upstairs (English). "A taut, offbeat thriller, crisply written and directed, about a psychotic scientist holed up on the top floor of a rooming house, and how his fellow lodgers coax him into coming down...
...fact that Lata does not appear on the screen never bothers her fans. Nor does it trouble them that the studio mixers, who build up her voice electronically to help it ride over the orchestra, rarely manage to synchronize her song with the "singer" on the screen. The offbeat result helps the audience identify Lata. And in Indian movies (TIME, Jan. 5)-three-hour, syrupy soap operas relieved by interludes of pop music-the audience likes to know who is actually carrying the tune. With Lata the moviegoers can hear their favorites in any one of twelve Indian dialects...
Died. Max Sherover, 70, founder (1929) and president of the Linguaphone Institute of America, which offers a $60 phonograph record course in any of 34 languages and such offbeat items as a Dormiphone, which drills a student in vocabulary while he sleeps; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Polish-born Sherover once edited a socialist newspaper in Buffalo, published a five-language trade journal in Japan, built a Brooklyn hotel. Able to converse in twelve languages, he used to startle garrulous cab drivers by correctly guessing their birthplaces...