Word: offbeaters
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...musical loves, Western rock and third-world rhythms. Takamba (a word the Tuareg tribe use to describe a camel's gait) splices hypnotic African grooves with crashing drums. He can even inject a dose of politics: Freedom Fries, a cutting attack on the Bush presidency, welds an offbeat guitar lick to the furious pounding of a Moroccan bendir drum. But call it world music at your peril; Mighty Rearranger is a million miles away from Paul Simon's reverential take on African sounds. "The whole coffee-table aspect of listening to world music is bulls__t," the singer says with...
KIDMAN: After To Die For, he sent me a lovely telegram, and to get that kind of encouragement early on in your career gives you much more confidence to do things that are unusual or a little bold or offbeat. The thing about Sean is that he has an incredibly generous spirit in terms of other people's work, particularly actors...
...performance piece about liberty and equality in the United States, another performer slowly paints the Statue of Liberty with a green spray can. It is fascinating to watch her drawing develop from an oblong triangle to a realistic version of the monument, mixing visual art with performing in an offbeat way. Yet the show’s graffiti element was not exploited to its fullest possibility. It would only have added to the excitement to see more layers of color and shapes blending together...
...says elections must be dull, worthy affairs? Three weeks before Brits go to the polls, the great pageant of British democracy was throwing off moments of offbeat hilarity that derailed the parties' ferocious message machines. The Conservatives have gained traction by pushing an annual limit on immigrants, which is why their Dorset South candidate Ed Matts released a photo of him and former Minister Ann Widdecombe holding posters reading controlled immigration, not chaos and inhumanity. Unfortunately, in the original, he was holding a photo of a family of Malawian refugees, and her poster said let them stay...
...seen. NBC has won the ratings for nine straight weeks, but it has scored highest with reruns of such hits as The Cosby Show, Family Ties and Miami Vice. In fact, the first of four new NBC series planned for the summer, Michael Nesmith in Television Parts, an offbeat comedy using music-video techniques, was dead last in the ratings for three of its four telecasts...