Word: offbeat
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Only You (The Platters; Mercury). The rock-'n'-roll set is gobbling this one up fast. Its gimmick: a regular snapping sound on the offbeat, like a whipcrack. The lead singer, presumably frightened by that whip, shrieks in a quivering, gasping falsetto. A nerve-racking specimen of the continuing rock-'n'-roll dementia...
...which prohibits "beggars, baby carriages, bicycles or foreign cars in the lobby." The freshness of Sylvester's approach stems from innate curiosity, a versatile talent (he has written six novels, one movie script, is collaborating on a musical), and a sharp ear for the irreverent crack and the offbeat anecdote: Some Sylvesterisms : ¶ On progressive schools: "Johnny, stop playing with Joseph...
...plenty of anguished howls from militant lowbrows about Shahn's splendid cover . . . For offbeat TIME covers, however, my money still goes on the job you did during the war on a Japanese admiral, I forget his name, but the artist was Boris Artzybasheff ... It was one of Artzybasheff's best...
...trying to clean up the homosexual theme in Tea and Sympathy by making the young hero-who suffers doubts about his manhood-simply "offbeat," i.e., nonconformist. However, Cinemactress Deborah Kerr is already reported as saying that she will walk out on the picture if the consummation scene with the hero is not left...
...Producer Otto Preminger, working on Nelson Algren's Man with the Golden Arm (about a drug addict), announced that he may release his film without the Production Code seal. Explained one Hollywood observer: "You can't reduce a narcotics addict to an offbeat type...