Word: offbeats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, they have deleted other elements usually all too evident: the funereal music, the somber voice of an offscreen narrator, and the snooty self-importance. Airing weekdays on PBS, the half-an-hour series is aimed at six-to-11-year-olds, but the hosts' offbeat affability and unpatronizing tone have made it a favorite among grownups too. In many areas ratings for Kratts' Creatures have doubled since its debut in June, fan mail for the brothers swarms into PBS offices daily, and CBS and Fox are already hankering to steal the show away...
Since 1979, general education electives have evolved into offbeat courses that professors enjoy teaching...
...divorce itself hasn't reduced America's youth to emotional cripples, then the efforts to restrict it undoubtedly will. First, there's the effect all this antidivorce rhetoric is bound to have on the children of people already divorced--and we're not talking about some offbeat minority. At least 37% of American children live with divorced parents, and these children already face enough tricky interpersonal situations without having to cope with the public perception that they're damaged goods...
...louder, increasingly confrontational volumes. The scene challenges the old cliche that music is the universal language. Often, in fact, it is an expression of what divides us--Shania Twain and Tupac Shakur don't share much of a crossover audience. It's therefore a delight to encounter two engaging, offbeat new rap groups, the Japanese-American duo Cibo Matto and the Haitian-American trio the Fugees. Neither makes overtly integrationist music--no hip-hop covers of We Shall Overcome--but both of them cross cultural and musical boundaries to create a sound that is bold and fresh...
...That's the offbeat, this is one and one and, like it's the 'and' of the beat. Ska is defined by the rhythm section...