Word: offbeaters
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...first skates at the age of two and glides hour after hour in lonely ice rinks so she can someday bring home a gold medal. That's yesterday's Olympic profile. It's certainly not Yoko Miyake's story. She's a snowboarder, and this band of offbeat rebels doesn't play by the old rules. Many of the sport's stars didn't even want to join the rarefied Olympian world, when the suits who run the quadrennial ice-fest invited them in four years ago, in hopes of injecting some hipness into the staid Winter Games. "I just...
...mean feat. Even “supporting” characters in Monsters, Inc., are no less realized—take Celia, for example, Mike’s recurring girlfriend who has a voice and personality like Audrey in Little Shop Of Horrors and hair like Medusa. The offbeat animators at Pixar have cleverly inserted many more references into Monsters, Inc., which devoted (and even not-so-devoted) movie buffs will be able to recognize. Toy Story nostalgics will cheer at elements of the Toy Story 2 airport scenes—absolutely no one can make animated chase sequences as comically...
Showrooms started filling with new customers almost instantly. One attraction was the innovative, even offbeat styling of a couple of new models. The compact Santa Fe SUV was designed in the company's California studio to "cut through the clutter" of look-alike products, says O'Neill. The new XG300, a luxury sedan that at $25,000 is the most expensive car Hyundai has ever offered, also has a distinctive appearance...
...Andy Dick Show "He's got a real Midwestern sense of humor, both mainstream and offbeat...
...surprisingly smooth listen for an album that boasts such seemingly disparate influences. Many of the songs have a billowing, dreamlike quality to them; images and melodies twirl around in tiny zephyrs of sound. Twisted (Never Again) sounds like echoes from a carnival, with spinning ferris-wheel-like choruses and offbeat funhouse instrumentation. On the bluesy I Can't Lie, Seger lets herself go, howling some of the final lines with a gleeful abandon that evokes a carefree Janis Joplin...