Word: offbeaters
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...going to be fun watching this family fight their way through this." Not as much fun, unfortunately, as it would be if the actors and plot twists did not look so much like mass-produced goods. One exception: Andrea Marcovicci, as a bitchy Berrenger wife, has an offbeat beauty and a mocking, low-key style that is a flavorful slice of rye in the white-bread surroundings...
...ROOF (Showtime). Jessica Lange was a sizzling Maggie and Rip Torn an offbeat Big Daddy in this lively and well-directed (by Jack Hofsiss) classic. TV's finest posthumous tribute to Tennessee Williams...
...access measure, already passed by the Senate, goes to President Reagan, who is expected to sign it even though he considers the $1 billion grant for math and science training to which it is attached to be too costly. Some observers think the legislation may foster a proliferation of offbeat religious and political meetings on school premises. The bill was drafted in response to federal district court rulings forbidding all student religious gatherings, in cases involving schools in Lubbock, Texas, and Guilderland, N.Y. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review those decisions...
...four-member U.S. women's flat-water kayak team, another "disorganized band of people committed to an offbeat sport," as one of them puts it, also has a clear commitment: to get past a 20-year soggy patch in which the U.S. has won no kayaking medals at all. Not many people in the country know or care about their crusade, and that seems to be just fine with the kayakers. "I think we're tougher than a Mary Decker," says Ann Turner, 27, a tall, striking blond who is the veteran of the crew...
...mishmash of the two, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though it doesn't work here. Slap-dash road violence in the post-nuclear age (or pre-, as the case may be) and the pathetic tribulations of alienated punks--the two mix seamlessly in this offbeat satire of suburban L.A. life...