Word: offbeaters
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...Carol Horn, 39, a Coty winner last year, also covers the world-Japan, Rumania, Guatemala, India-but on a budget. A native New Yorker who had no formal fashion training, she uses offbeat fabrics that "people want to touch," and makes inexpensive multipurpose clothes such as a crinkled cotton caftan. "My ideal garment," she says, "is one I can walk around the house in, toss over a bathing suit at the beach, dress up with accessories and wear out at night." Her Habitat ready-to-wear line did $5 million retail in 1975, its first year, and is expected...
...delivery of an offbeat lecture does not explain the scene, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has not yet seen fit to add courses in highway safety to its curriculum. Rather, the occasion is a morning section of English E, "English as a Foreign Language," Harvard's answer to the needs of many foreign students and faculty members seeking to hone their oral and written skills in the English language...
Schuyler's comments (see box) are themselves worth the price of the novel. Vidal has no peers at breathing movement and laughter into the historical past. His book teems with offbeat details: Tilden's dyspepsia and private collection of erotic literature; the Petronian orgy of a White House banquet ("25 courses and six good wines"); the surprisingly low and musical quality of Grant's voice. Even though the results have been in for 100 years, Vidal marshals his research so that the 1876 election reads like a cliffhanger...
...trip represented a once-in-a-lifetime act of massive self-indulgence, plus the chance to experience firsthand "the trains with the bewitching names: the Orient Express, the North Star, the Trans-Siberian." As an added bonus, the trips threw him together with several novels' worth of offbeat characters...
...Columbia's Nicola River Valley. Little known even to Canadians is the Quilchena Cattle Co.'s rococo 18-room hotel and 25,000-acre working ranch, about 250 miles northeast of Vancouver. Guy Rose, owner of the ranch and grandson of its founder, never advertises his off-offbeat hotel, "so we don't get a bunch of people here we wouldn't like." The lakefront hotel was built in 1908, has a bullet-riddled bar, brass bedsteads in the huge rooms and a splendid view of the valley from all windows. It serves guests the same...