Word: offbeaters
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...many of the offbeat cases, the implicit demand seems to be that all customary standards, tastes, proprieties and practices must yield to the whims and oddities of the individual. Still other cases seem to envision the abolition of all exclusivity, whether its purpose is malign or not. Exclusive societies of professionals (lawyers, doctors, engineers) exist for perfectly decent reasons. And certain groupings of artists for different decent aims. Yet, federal funds were briefly withheld from a Connecticut school on the ground that its boys' choir, by existing, encouraged sexist discrimination-and never mind the unique musical reasons why boys...
...Longest walk: one mile. Baggage checkout: fast. Hotels/Motels: ample. Ten within 10 min. Amenities: excellent. Lounges pleasant and comfortable. Good coffee shop open until 7:30 p.m. (beef tacos, $2.50); crowded self-service cafeteria. Best restaurant: Crossroads West. Six bars, most open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Shopping facilities: offbeat. Western and Indian wares. Spanish shop, flower stall with fresh-cut Colorado varieties. One barbershop. Private changing rooms with basins and toilets. Extra-long lockers and free plastic bags for skis. First-aid station; 24-hr, ambulance. Overall: pleasantly oldfashioned...
...film Dog Day Afternoon: criminals who have been surprised by police use innocent bystanders as tools in escape negotiations. But in the past 18 months, there has been an alarming increase in the number of cases of hostages being taken to express a complaint about society, to publicize an offbeat cause or merely to attract attention to a personal problem. Among such incidents...
Each of the networks has instructed its allotted quartet of floor reporters -known among colleagues as "the four horsepersons"-to keep an eye cocked for offbeat background stories. "I'd like to explain the process by which the Democratic candidate sewed up the nomination and the party before the convention," says Tom Pettit, one of NBC'S floor reporters.* Promises ABC'S Ann Compton: "The delegates used to be faceless people in straw hats, but this year we're going to find out why they are voting the way they...
...Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens) in which that search is always eccentric, the conclusion indefinite. Like Bobby Dupea, the runaway pianist of Five Easy Pieces, Craig is spiritually disenfranchised, in flagrant rebellion against his class. Craig revels in the funky spirit at the Olympic, and Rafelson, with his offbeat sense of humor, his knack for visual surprise, turns the spa into a suitably shabby field of honor. Joe Santo trains for the Mr. Universe competition by pressing weights in a Batman getup. The owner of the Olympic, a toupeed madman who calls himself Thor Erickson (R.H. Armstrong), spies...