Word: offbeaters
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...them all: an enormous affair conducted in the Rose Bowl, where bargain hunting now rivals football as the favorite sport. Every second Sunday in the month, year round, some 35,000 customers queue up outside the Bowl to pay the 50? that admits them to a day of offbeat shopping. Inside the stadium several hundred hawkers display their merchandise along the 50-ft.-wide walkway that circles the stadium. They have each rented booth space at $5, $10 or $15 (depending on location) to sell clothes, curios, antiques and all kinds of gadgets and recyclable junk. For the nostalgia-oriented...
Where else, after all, can a reader get the best of both the Post and Times, expertly presented along with comics and commentary? As a bonus, there is also the Trib's own crew of offbeat freelancers who lend the paper a welcome air of leisured whimsy. Souren Melikian, a Persian prince, covers art and artifact auctions with the colorful authority of both expert and buyer. Gastronome Waverly Root writes lovingly of rare, night-blooming mushrooms and the perils of absinthe, interspersed with an occasional reminiscence of Paris whores of the 1920s. Among Trib critics, Henry Pleasants comments...
...hoped that the U.S. tour will proceed in an equally amiable atmosphere. The White House is keeping an anxious watch on events and is arranging for careful security. The team will make standard visits to New York City, Washington and San Francisco, as well as to some slightly more offbeat places, including Memphis and Huntsville, Ala. They are even slated to see California's Disneyland, where, so far, no attempts have been made to supplement Main Street, U.S.A. with the Great Wall, or the pirate ride with the Cultural Revolution. One of the signs of how far U.S.-Chinese...
Movies about decadence are as American as apple pie. It is no wonder that Cabaret has transformed Sally Bowles, the wayward English schoolgirl of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, into an offbeat American princess, and that America, in loving recognition, has responded by placing Liza Minelli, the reigning Sally Bowles, on the covers of both its major news magazines...
...usually bring a briefcase over here and read in the evening. I often read offbeat things selected for me that range from the National Review to the New Republic, the Observer or the so-called little magazines. But if I have to concentrate on composition, I work in the E.O.B.," Nixon explains. "I don't see any movies during the week, but on Monday nights, I watch the second half of the football game. I never watch myself on television. I strongly advise young political people, 'Don't watch yourself on television. You may become self-conscious.' I did watch...