Word: offbeat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Classroom Dialogist. Claremont Men's College, near Los Angeles, has only 626 students, but it also has Bronx-born Political Scientist Martin Dia mond, 46, who has turned an offbeat set of experiences into a classroom asset. He learned how to intrigue a crowd and squelch hecklers while plugging socialist causes on New York street corners when he was the age of his students...
MORGAN! A misfit artist tries to woo back his divorced wife by behaving like King Kong in an offbeat comedy that might easily have run amuck except for polished clowning by David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave, two of Britain's showiest young stars...
MORGAN! A misfit artist tries to woo back his divorced wife by behaving like King Kong in a hilarious, offbeat comedy that might easily run amuck except for polished clowning by David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave, two of Britain's showiest young stars...
Morgan! This wildly offbeat black comedy from Britain, adapted by Scenarist David Mercer from his own BBC television play, tells how an unmanageable, eccentric young painter is destroyed by his love for his mother, Karl Marx, King Kong, and a sleek London socialite named Leonie. Leonie is Morgan's wife, but she has just divorced him. His idea of wooing her back is to put a skeleton in her bed or to wire her boudoir with shattering hi-fi sound effects, hoping that her lover and husband-to-be may die of fright. He steals Leonie...
...exploration vehicle is the Faust theme, which is a pretty striking and typically offbeat Mersey gimmick. Fist (Faust) makes a deal with Chum (Me-phisto), who offers Fist the chance to experience "breakthroughs." All he wants in return is a 26-week option, subject to renewal, on Fist's inmost primeval soul. Oddly enough, when he first steps into the world as the Devil's man, Fist doesn't change much. He starts cutting classes carefreely, naturally. But it is some time before he even gets around to going to a motel with a pretty young high...