Word: offbeats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience knows it is in for an offbeat experience as soon as the first character appears, sporting an elephant's head. This is Ganesha, the Hindu god who embodies childish playfulness, zest for life and prankish humor. During the course of almost three hours, he appears in countless guises across a tourist's landscape of India, as a Japanese husband and later his wife, as a street peddler, a beggar and a leper, not to mention moments of high-spirited invisibility when he is simply a god. He attaches himself to two suburban American matrons, old enough to be grandmothers...
...said that HRE wants kiosk tenants that fit in with the offbeat character of Harvard Square...
...before integration, it was the place where Black musicians went to play incredible music in smoky dives. After falling into disrepair, it was refurbished by the city in the early '80s, and after a slow start, managed to catch on. Today it's filled with funky restaurants, offbeat stores and music joints (such as B.B. King's). On spring and summer nights, Beale becomes packed with people of all types strolling around. It's one of the few places in Memphis where both Blacks and whites mix in numbers about proportional to their representation in the town...
Back in the synthetic '70s, when disco and watered-down rock ruled the radio, a band called Steely Dan was making some of the most elegantly offbeat, wickedly incisive music ever to sneak onto the pop charts. Hits like Reeling in the Years and Rikki Don't Lose That Number were only the tip of the creative iceberg; beneath the taut tempos, cryptic lyrics and refreshingly unfamiliar melodies lurked an arcane, darkly sardonic intelligence summed up by the group's name, which was inspired by the moniker for a sexual appliance in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch...
...consciousness. The goal is mass artistic awareness, and for Agitprop, art is everywhere. Living up to its funky monniker, a condensation of "agitation propaganda," Agitprop digs up facets of our culture and packages them for popular consumption. After only two years, this energetic arts group has organized many offbeat events to accomplish their goal...