Word: offbeaters
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Nothing fails like success. Example: The Weekender, a shoestring weekly in Traverse City, Mich., that was mildly successful at reporting offbeat stories and doing a bit of gentle muckraking until last...
Rock music has brought fortunes to hundreds of youthful performers, offbeat promoters and once unknown musical entrepreneurs. As a cultural phenomenon that knows no season, rock has also made the nation's record industry immune to this year's economic slump. Recording companies expect to reach an alltime sales peak of $1.8 billion in 1970, a 14% increase. The company that has profited most from the trend is Columbia Records, a division of Columbia Broadcasting. In the past three years, Columbia has doubled its share of the record market, to 22%, an amount almost as large...
Where do you go in film making after you have made a home movie co-starring Peter Sellers and Princess Margaret? The film maker in question, Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, has found an answer: into offbeat, unblinking television documentaries. His first, dealing with old age and titled Don't Count the Candles, was shown in 21 countries and earned six awards (including two Emmys after its 1968 appearance on CBS). His second, which is called Love of a Kind and concerns Britons' infatuation with pets, can-and should-be seen on NBC's First Tuesday...
Zacher's offbeat passion for the organ comes naturally. All the way back to the great-uncle who lost a church job at the turn of the century for playing the then revolutionary Max Reger, Zacher's family tree has been heavy with organists. His reputation as both an avant-garde and a classical player was established during twelve years as chief organist at red brick Wellingsbütte Church near Hamburg. He moved to his new and prestigious Essen post only two months ago. In recent years he has performed at nearly every one of Europe...
...traditional ways than Mategot, a few hardy pioneers have stopped creating designs for factories and begun making their own free-form wall hangings. They work directly with such out-of-the-way materials as jute, sisal and new synthetic yarns, which they knit, tie and wrap into works so offbeat that baffled customs officials sometimes confuse them with rugs...