Word: offbeaters
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...recently gave that assignment to readers of the British education magazine Where. The first 72 answers were from children aged four to 14. attending schools in both the United Kingdom and its former overseas territories. The unedited results, along with De Bono's commentary, are contained in an offbeat and fascinating new book entitled, naturally. The Dog Exercising Machine (Simon & Schuster...
...Angeles Times, who could be considered a Washington columnist of sorts himself. But there are not many like Donovan. No pundit, he specializes in writing around the news and stresses a new, people-oriented approach in interviews with the famous, the forgotten and the obscure. His low-key offbeat efforts do not aim for headlines, but the Times is now syndicating them to 200 papers...
...city mayoralty races. Some of the elections may produce portents of next year's national politics. Others, because they turn on specific local issues, will more than likely be analyzed and interpreted individually, rather than for any discernible nationwide pattern. Some, too, are notable mainly for refreshingly offbeat candidates. Taken together, four major contests constitute a political pastiche of urban America...
Talese's individualism gained him a reputation as a prima donna at the New York Times, where he began as a copyboy in 1953 and left as a hot-shot feature writer twelve years later. His specialty was the out-of-the-way, the offbeat, the loser, the star that has fallen or faded. Bill Bonanno was a natural for Talese. But how does a journalist get close to the Mafia? Very slowly and very carefully. Research on the book took nearly seven years from the time in 1965 when Talese first introduced himself to Bonanno in a courtroom...
...message, not its music, that is offbeat. That message is preached by the movement's founder, Victor Paul Wierwille, 54, a trim, tanned, fast-talking six-footer who likes to wear Western-cut suits with a scarf around his neck and tool around the countryside on a big Harley-Davidson. A former minister of the United Church of Christ who has studied both at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Princeton Theological Seminary, Wierwille is now a crackerbarrel theological promoter who grandiosely claims to have done the only "pure and correct" interpretation of the Bible since the First...