Word: offbeaters
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...Jamaica, stable again after several years of political turmoil. Israel, with diversified activities ranging from inner-tubing down the Hatsbani River to skindiving at Elath, expects more than 300,000 American vacationers, of whom only 50% are Jewish. India is cashing in on its recent film fame with such offbeat ventures as a 15-or 21-day trip, "In the Footsteps of the Mahatma," tracing Gandhi's life (at $85 a day), and vacations at The Lake Palace hotel in Udaipur, where parts of Octopussy were shot. Australia and New Zealand are enjoying a tourist boom, thanks to Yanks...
...Americans, taking advantage of the favorable exchange rate, are spending more time and money in Italy than ever before. For returning visitors bent on escaping the usual roster of sun, sea, pasta and churches, cultural organizations like Alcatraz (no connection with the San Francisco penitentiary) offer courses in such offbeat subjects as ceramics and theater furniture making. Cooking courses abound, notably New York-based Marcella Kazan's in Bologna...
...traditional calling-card film of an ambitious young talent, shaping its dexterity to the restrictive demands of the horror or sci-fi genre. This movie, set in Trenton, N.J., in 1967 and loosely based on the teen-age experiences of Producer Amy Robinson, has the same Sayles eye for offbeat casting and off-the-shoulder comedy, the same ability to infiltrate the minds of charac ters from widely different social strata. Nothing has changed but the budget...
...certainly lavish (290 glossy pages) and diverse. To accompany an entire short novel by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, the magazine bought rights to a dozen new paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared from baseball. More predictably in a culture magazine, there are discerning reviews by Novelist Robert Stone of Joan Didion's Latin American reportage in her book Salvador, and by Staff...
...paper offers offbeat trend stories, like a report last week that laboratories have, for financial rather than humanitarian reasons, cut back testing on animals, but most of the news in USA Today is not reported in depth. Indeed, President Reagan's State of the Union address was dismissed in four small stories, the longest of them just over 300 words; the New York Times gave the story most of three densely packed pages. Editor John Curley's once-over-lightly format has not changed much since the paper's first issue noted the assassination of Lebanese President...