Word: offbeaters
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...once adventurous Royal Court Theater, since the death of Artistic Director George Devine, has been taken over by a feeble clique of conventionally minor playwrights and directors. In this vacuum, the tiny semisuburban, underbudgeted Hampstead Theater Club has attracted critical notice with its recent productions of two stimulatingly offbeat dramas: Tennessee Williams' Two Character Play (TIME, Dec. 22), and its currently featured Bakke's Night of Fame by Playwright John McGrath. In the latter, the action takes place in the death cell of a U.S. prison, where Bakke, awaiting electrocution at midnight, ingeniously and humorously torments his guards...
Though ABC and NBC have also stepped up their coverage of offbeat stories, neither so far has matched Kuralt's diversity or unabashed do-goodness. In Holbrook, Mass., he told of a fund drive for the infant son of a Navy pilot who, by diverting his crippled jet away from a school and residential area, sacrificed his own life. In Westerville, Ohio, Kuralt interviewed John Franklin Smith, 87, who upon retiring as a teacher at Otterbein College stayed on as a janitor; the old man remarked that he was still "looking ahead" because there were so many "good books...
...street from Fisherman's Wharf. "I had a sense of smell," explains Leonard V. Martin, 47, a wealthy Manchurian-born lawyer, who bought the abandoned Del Monte peach cannery in 1963. Martin's nose told him that what San Francisco needed was sidewalk cafes and more offbeat shops, and, with Architect Joseph Esherick, he set out to provide them...
Youth in Command. The most visual, persistent and audacious element of the new fashions is the miniskirt. In the three years since it made its first real appearance in small, offbeat boutiques and far-out discotheques, it has surged onto the campuses, into offices, out on the avenue anywhere at all that youth defiantly chooses to show its colors. By general agreement, a true mini rises to just mid-thigh. But with dresses growing shorter by the season, whole new categories have had to be advanced. "Now," notes one San Francisco designer, "there is the micromini, the micro-micro...
...allegro. Some of his effects were comic: in the finale of Symphony No. 60, the violins are asked to mistune their lowest string from G down to F, then pause in mock horror and raucously retune. At the end of Symphony No. 80, the orchestra comes in on the offbeat so consistently that wrong begins to sound like right; then, with a wrenching jolt, the return to right sounds all wrong...