Word: offbeat
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NIGHT TIDE. The age-old legend of the mariner and the mermaid brought up to date by Writer-Director Curtis Harrington, whose offbeat first feature turns a Venice, Calif., amusement park into a mystical land of Edgar Allan Poetry...
...begins a fairly hilarious romance between the middle-aged sergeant and the teen-aged twerp. Unfortunately, the romance only lasts about 20 minutes, and the rest of the picture isn't anywhere near as funny. In trying to go offbeat, Director Ralph Nelson has managed mostly to go offkey. But Gleason will amuse anybody who can still be amused by barracks humor...
...Distressing as it may be to A.T. & T. the sale of offbeat handsets is booming. Two companies in New York City account for most of a fast-moving retail and mail order business in rebuilt foreign antiques and reproductions, equipped with dials and plug-ins to fit a phone company jack (Jacqueline Kennedy has one on a 19th century Victorian table in her White House office). Also popular are American antiques-wood-cabinet wall phones and the stand-up type that went out in the late '30s, known in the telephone trade as "the Eliot Ness." Newest dodge...
...additional refueling stop. South African Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman assured everyone that the island-hopping detour is every bit as safe as the old routes. "We are flying and will keep flying," he vowed. The airline has already launched an advertising campaign extolling the scenic charms of such offbeat places as Luanda and Las Palmas, and a Cape Town columnist eloquently extolled the uses of adversity. "Boycotts have turned us into smarter salesmen," the pundit wrote. "Arms embargoes have forced us to make our own weapons, and the air ban has sent a patriotic thrill running down the South...
...Catos & Brutuses." Compared with other artists, his travels were offbeat. He made no pilgrimage to Greece or Rome; instead he went to England, where he fell under the spell of the landscapists, notably Constable, who taught him how to give color increased intensity by breaking it up into fragments so that it would seem to vibrate. He found the glories of Greece and Rome not in the marble masterpieces of museums but in the antique civilization of Morocco, where man seemed to him to be so many "Catos and Brutuses." Whereas in other artists a love of antiquity resulted...