Word: offbeaters
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...daily, the "live-in" has been a series of haphazard happenings-arguments, jam sessions, talkathons-as well as plain old views of the Schultz family eating, watching TV, reading, and chatting on the telephone. As theater, Life is worth leaving; as peep show, it is an offbeat, sometimes curiously intriguing look at the denizens of bohemia caged, as it were, in their natural habitat. Among their most pressing problems are housekeeping and housebreaking the dogs. Just when things might get interesting, the mutts have the distressing habit of upstaging the cast by urinating on the floor...
...BUTTON sonality Posters. Right now the Monkees are the most popular of his 70 posters; other favorites, each for $1, include Chairman Mao, Dracula, the Hell's Angels, Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Ginsberg in his Uncle Sam suit, and Peter Fonda on a motorcycle. Also prized: the offbeat "You Don't Have to Be Jewish to Love Levy's" subway poster ads for rye bread...
...seem when the moods are manufactured by that offbeat brand of musician, the cocktail pianist. The sign outside says "Music for Hand Holders," but he plays for not only the bewitched but also the bothered, bewildered and just plain bombed. His salon is a saloon with carpeting, usually sporting a get-away-from-it-all name like the Shangri-la or the Windjammer. The lights are low, and the prices are high. And what escape the customer cannot find in the alcohol and easy ambiance, the cocktail pianist provides with a painless medley of ballads, show tunes, light classics...
Kaleidoscopes & Mini Marvels. In Cleveland, there is another Headquarters shop, this one located in the town's beat and offbeat section on Euclid Avenue, just east of the Western Reserve campus. Owner Stan Heilburn considers his store "a propaganda agency for LSD users, to counter the effects of a bad press." The propaganda works-at least in Ohio: 200 to 300 people press in on weekday nights; weekends, up to a thousand customers clamor for medium-priced trivia, including Yugoslavian pipes ($3.00), and off-beat books and records. "We sell a lot of things that are generally available," concedes...
...multiple prescriptions from different doctors. Obviously, most of these extra drugs must have been passed along by the addicts to nonaddicts who wanted to experiment and eventually became hooked themselves. What broke down was not so much the system as the principle of permissiveness itself. The new offbeat generation, helped-so the British say -by an influx of a hundred or more junkies from the U.S. and Canada, exhibited a forbidden-fruit syndrome. Addicts and their experimenting friends found that they got more of a kick from illegally acquired fixes than from prescription pills. They even complained that stuff smuggled...