Word: offbeat
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...little avail. Bajour wants to be offbeat and manages only to be off key. When a group of vagrants camp fifty to the square foot in a deplastered slum store and trumpet that they intend to steal New York blind, the $9.60 ticket buyer is bound to speculate wryly that he may be the next victim. And even if he is filled with escapist envy for the gypsy's irresponsible lot, his conscience, drummed by a thousand pleas, dampens his delight. In the climate of today's opinion, play-gypsies-play translates into the specter of migrant urban...
...WOMAN IS A WOMAN. France's Jean-Luc Godard glorifies the offbeat amours of a Parisian stripteaser (Anna Karina) with some gay, giddy improvisations inspired by New Wave esprit and a handful of old Hollywood musicals...
...WOMAN IS A WOMAN. France's Jean-Luc Godard glorifies the offbeat amours of a Parisian stripteaser (Anna Karina) with some gay, giddy improvisations inspired by New Wave esprit and a handful of old Hollywood musicals...
...shop, sewing and selling her own designs. Instantly British teenagers, themselves weary of the butch look, flocked to the tiny Chelsea workroom, emerged looking more like Cossacks and guardsmen, sailors and hockey players. Audacious in concept, vivid in execution and realistically priced ($20 and up), Mary Quant's offbeat styles (a typical dress trimmed red flannel with black lace, included a striped bodice and a quilted hem) caused such a local stir that buyers hurried over from abroad. Today, with a posh London office, a vast European market, and outlets in 45 American department stores, Mary Quant...
...announce in titles: "It is because they love each other that things will go wrong for Emile and Angela." Later, Brialy soliloquizes: "I don't know whether this is a comedy or a tragedy-but it is a masterpiece." It isn't, really. But for fans of offbeat films, it will seem a pungently detailed and disarmingly original effort by a man who makes his joy in his work contagious...