Word: offbeats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...criminologist about a really offbeat crime, and there's a good chance he can tell you the year. Tylenol bottles laced with poison on supermarket shelves? 1982. Syringes planted in Pepsi cans? 1993. Letters purportedly containing deadly anthrax? 1998. Reason: those are the years when a wave of similar crimes suddenly began appearing across the country...
...several city sights and University offices, making it surprisingly more convenient and pleasant than might at first be apparent. The registrar is on the way, along with the undergraduate economics department and the Student Disability Resource Center offices. Hoofing to and from the Yard also brings travellers by the offbeat beatniks of Cambridge Common and the dapper Sheraton Commander bellhops, as well as within smelling distance of the HUPD headquarters' donuts...
...antics for attention. Every semester, a handful of students manipulate the classroom into an arena for the entertainment of others. Several Harvard student organizations have maximized their visibility this way. While a cappella groups often sing at the start of a lecture to plug an upcoming jam, more offbeat spectacles have taken place. In December, the Phoenix S.K. final club sent its new members to Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights: Five Performance Premieres" to show off their legs and moves while dancing to Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." In another unrelated incident, another final club initiate grunted through...
...Rosie told me one time, "There's nothing wrong with mainstream." I was a little hurt. Because it suggested that I was trying desperately to be offbeat and accepted by only two or three people...
This is only the third time in history that two women have squared off in a general election for the U.S. Senate. But that subject barely surfaces in the daily yin and yang of the campaign. The more interesting story is that while Murray and Smith are both somewhat offbeat, they are polar opposites politically. And at a time in which President Clinton has broken the needle on the country's moral compass, we're about to find out whether one of the nation's largest groups of independent-minded voters goes for the moderate suburban mom who speaks softly...