Word: offbeats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RICKIE LEE JONES: POP POP (Geffen). One of rock's most idiosyncratic talents bends pop standards like I'll Be Seeing You and Second Time Around to her own offbeat styling. She comes up with interpretations that career between the telling and the bizarre, but some of the most surprising renditions -- like, for God's sake, Hi-Lili Hi-Lo -- turn out to be the most successful...
...with that, what may be Cambridge's most offbeat resource will continue to offer 21st-century relief to businesspeople, Harvard students and stressed-out Cantabrigians, fighting against their all-too-famous reputation for lunacy...
SESSIONS (HBO, debuting Oct. 6, 10:10 p.m. EDT). A 42-year-old husband and father (Michael McKean) discusses his sexual fantasies and mid-life neuroses with a sympathetic shrink (Elliott Gould). Billy Crystal created and co-wrote this offbeat comedy series, which is frank and frequently clever, though a bit mushy at the center...
When Unplugged was launched in January 1990, it started out by presenting such offbeat performers as Sinead O'Connor, Neil Young and Squeeze. Then an appearance by ex-Eagle Don Henley "upped the ante," according to MTV creative director Judy McGrath. Now the show regularly ranks as one of the network's best-performing programs. In April it scored a coup by snagging R.E.M. for one of only two concerts the band performed in the U.S. to promote its No. 1 album, Out of Time. Last month Unplugged broke musical ground by offering an acoustic jam headlined by rappers...
Beautiful architecture, a lively cultural scene and an ever-growing set of offbeat house traditions (an annual Carribean-style goat roast and frequent bathrobe brunches among them) lend Dunster a unique character. And, boasting a strong bunch of hardcore recyclers, Dunster is rapidly becoming enviro-house as well...