Word: offbeat
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...question of the moment is whether Letterman's offbeat, sometimes abrasive style will work at 11:30, where the mainstream audience is more accustomed to the enthusiasm that Carson (and now Leno) brought to the job of helping celebrities promote their new movies. Industry prognosticators are cautious, if not downright skeptical. Leno, inheritor of the powerful Tonight franchise, is generally regarded as the front runner, if only because Letterman's show will have a weaker station lineup: more than 30% of CBS affiliates will be delaying his program by half an hour or more to make room for syndicated fare...
Although Brown usually shows what he terms "commercial" films to his students, he plans to choose more offbeat pieces for the Harvard series, he said...
...audience knows it is in for an offbeat experience as soon as the first character appears, sporting an elephant's head. This is Ganesha, the Hindu god who embodies childish playfulness, zest for life and prankish humor. During the course of almost three hours, he appears in countless guises across a tourist's landscape of India, as a Japanese husband and later his wife, as a street peddler, a beggar and a leper, not to mention moments of high-spirited invisibility when he is simply a god. He attaches himself to two suburban American matrons, old enough to be grandmothers...
...said that HRE wants kiosk tenants that fit in with the offbeat character of Harvard Square...
...before integration, it was the place where Black musicians went to play incredible music in smoky dives. After falling into disrepair, it was refurbished by the city in the early '80s, and after a slow start, managed to catch on. Today it's filled with funky restaurants, offbeat stores and music joints (such as B.B. King's). On spring and summer nights, Beale becomes packed with people of all types strolling around. It's one of the few places in Memphis where both Blacks and whites mix in numbers about proportional to their representation in the town...