Word: offbeaters
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...years ago, the groupings were more inventive, but now they seem to have found what pays and have decided to stick with it, serving up a steady diet of Woody Allen, Bogart, and James Bond, with only an occasional surprise thrown in. Downstairs, the two other theaters show slightly offbeat first-run films. They don't always stick to the Spielbergian gospel to that has poisoned the suburbs, but are willing to screen films like Entre Nous, currently showing...
...other theaters which go out of their way to show unusual movies are the Nickelodeon in Boston (600 Commonwealth Ave.) and Coolidge Corner in Brookline (290 Harvard St.), both on modeled and expanded, and it offers a good selection of foreign, offbeat, underground, and gay films. The Coolidge Corner is a little more mainstream, tending towards interesting revivals...
...Tribune has shed almost completely a tradition of Midwestern Republican dogmatism, and it covers Chicago's tumultuous Democratic machine fairly. Among the paper's stars are Columnists Bob Greene, who specializes in offbeat portraits of ordinary people, and Mike Royko, a Chicago institution who jumped to the Trib along with about a dozen others when Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch took over its tabloid rival, the Sun-Times...
...returning to Cambridge, and all the seemingly endless darkness, clouds, and rain, fire murky, malevolent impulses find their perfect expression in the Mather House Drama Society production of Antonin Artaud's The Cenci. The little-known play, set in sixteenth century Italy, details the family problems of the slightly offbeat Duke of Cenci, who in the course of the play turns Oedipus on his ear by killing his sons and sleeping with his daughter...
...traditional standards, Kuralt's stories often are not news at all. They are authentic, uplifting Americana-folksy, but never cute or dismissive. He looks for people, sometimes whole communities, who have offbeat pursuits or experiences, and he takes them seriously. He seeks "stories that confirm that this is a remarkable country." Over the years, Kuralt has profiled an Iowa farmer who built a yacht in his barnyard, a retired West Virginia coal miner who sculpts statuary in coal, and the arcane Florida ritual of "worm grunting," catching bait with the use of wooden stakes and truck springs. Some...