Word: offbeat
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...Bagpipes. Miller picks the tunes, picks the singers to record them, sometimes even picks the albums to sheath the records. Latest pickings: offbeat instrumentations, e.g., harpsichord background for Clooney, French horns for Crooner Guy Mitchell. Says Miller: "You've got to work out a gimmick that'll get people's attention and hold it. You need that sense of communication." One senseless communication: a Dinah Shore vocal backed by six caterwauling bagpipes. Admits Miller...
...relentless rhythm had already caused at least one homicide (in Mexico), had driven its practitioners to such wild exuberance in Peru that Cardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara of Lima denied absolution to anyone who danced it. In its fast, Afro-Cuban syncopation, the percussion instruments thump down on the offbeat while the brasses go up in high blaring dissonance. Its tunes have such titles as Mambo No. 5, El Ruletero (the taxi driver) and Pachito 'Eche, whose words in typical rhythm, go: "Who is it, who is it? I will...
...Woman of Means, Peter Taylor wrote a mature and modest first book about a difficult boy-stepmother relationship. Hans Ruesch tried an offbeat background and brought off a vivid story of Eskimo manners & morals in Top of the World. Most polished of the preciousness school novels was A Long Day's Dying, by Frederick Buechner, a 23-year-old disciple of Henry James. There was nothing precious about young (24) John Hawkes's The Cannibal, a sometimes powerful experimental novel that tried to capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize...
...created in his mental image, and a great publishing industry was built to produce it. At the head of the industry during the early years stood the house of Beadle and Adams. The history of that house and its publications is the year's choicest chunk of offbeat Americana, a huge, cheerful corpse from the literary morgue...
...fashionable grillroom of Bogota's Granada Hotel the orchestra broke off a tango and swung into a soft, strumming, offbeat rhythm. A singer crooned...