Word: offbeaters
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...camera" to film slice-of-life vignettes on city streets. The show also cajoles officials to take the hot seat for questions called in by viewers. The Leningrad channel broadcasts the provocative cultural digest Fifth Wheel, focusing on "superfluous people" in the arts and letters, as well as the offbeat 600 Seconds news show, in which commentator Alexander Nevzorov races against a flashing digital clock to summarize the day's events, from cultural calendar to police blotter. Journalist Ott from Estonian TV has been so successful with one-on-one celebrity interviews that his regional program Television Acquaintance has been...
...warm-up highlights more than two dozen athletes who are at the top of their sport, a television viewer's guide to key events, and an offbeat look at Seoul by Contributor Pico Iyer, whose recent book, Video Night in Kathmandu, examines the inroads of Western popular culture throughout Asia. Perhaps the most arresting feature of the special section is photographic. Picture Researcher Dorothy Affa Ames began assigning photographers to cover pre- Olympic meets in April, and since then has edited 5,000 pictures provided by a dozen photojournalists and a score of photo agencies. A former professional photographer, Affa...
...Calvin Trillin is a man whose passions have always transcended the purely gustatory. The author of such critically touted books as Third Helpings (1983) and If You Can't Say Something Nice (1987), the Kansas City-born humorist, novelist and columnist also has a knack for capturing the offbeat flavor of American life. Last month Trillin contributed a portrait of Atlanta as part of TIME's coverage of the Democratic National Convention. This week Trillin's supple pen is trained on New Orleans, where the Republicans have converged for their own presidential hoopla...
...visitors from overseas are streaming onto U.S. shores this year, cameras and shopping lists at the ready. From California's redwood forests to the South's Gulf Stream waters, from Malibu to Maine, foreign tongues are echoing through all the familiar U.S. tourist attractions -- and some of the offbeat haunts as well...
...offbeat matchup, Jane Amsterdam of upscale magazine fame is named editor of New York' s grittiest tabloid -- the Post...