Word: offbeat
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...KNACK. As the gamin up for grabs in a town house occupied by three offbeat British bachelors, Rita Tushingham shines through the sight gags in Director Richard Lester's (A Hard Day's Night) frantic, frequently hilarious version of the New York-London stage...
...relief of middle-class mores, skillfully portrays a vacationing businessman who imagines an intrigue between his voluptuous young wife (Fulvia Franco) and a handsome archaeologist-until he gets a bizarre surprise. Manfredi is nearly matched by Monica Vitti, using every tic of her tragicomic trade in The Victim, an offbeat ode to a jealous wife who harangues her husband out of the house. When his best friend (Jean-Pierre Cassel) stops by, she pours out her troubles while he paws out his sympathy. Result: an orgy of absent-minded surrender...
...such an offbeat opener? "Because," explains Cindy, "we wanted to wake up cultural interests here, not just put them to sleep with the same old safe arias." In transporting Julius Caesar into the 20th century, Conductor Nicola Rescigno, who was imported from the Dallas Civic Opera with Producer Lawrence Kelly, compressed the unwieldy 51-hour libretto into three hours and, to allow for the inclusion of ballet sequences, added several numbers judiciously borrowed from other Handel operas...
...place their products among those 13, admen have switched to new and offbeat ways to capture consumer attention, including pop and op art. The most successful technique is being widely imitated. It is known as the "Bernbach Syndrome" after the ad firm of Doyle Dane Bernbach, and it consists of a wry, conversational, slightly apologetic approach to selling. Doyle Dane is responsible for some of the most fetching current ads, including those for Levy's Jewish Rye bread and the low-keyed, underdog-bidding Avis rent-a-car ads (which led Hubert Humphrey to say: "I try harder...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). War Hunt, an offbeat film about valor and insanity in the Korean War, with Robert Redford and John Saxon...