Word: offbeat
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...addition to offbeat areas like the K-Space, students use more conventional spaces for productions. Many houses, such as Dunster, Cabot and Mather, host at least one production per semester in their dining halls...
...Crazy time" is what Johnny Carson calls it when the comedy gets a bit weird on the Tonight show. But the real crazies rarely make it to Carson's stage. Goldthwait did have one Tonight appearance a year ago, when Joan Rivers was guest host, and some of his offbeat contemporaries can occasionally be seen in such hipper network venues as Late Night with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live. But increasingly, the showcase for innovative comic talent is cable, the Off-Broadway of TV comedy...
From Bob Goldthwait to Garry Shandling, offbeat, innovative comics are thriving on cable. -- The last roll call for Hill Street Blues...
Referring to that offbeat ruling, Grover said, "That way when they get to the finish line it's more of a nautical brawl. That's more exciting for the participants and the spectators...
...neighbors, Heidnik was known as an affable, offbeat sort who held "services" in his house for retarded women. He had a history of violence, however, and was convicted in 1978 of kidnaping a mentally handicapped woman. In 1985 he married a mail-order bride from the Philippines, but she left him after only three months, accusing him of spousal rape. He also had a knack for making good investments: police found documents in his house showing that he owned $500,000 worth of stock. Heidnik and a friend who occasionally in the house, Cyril ("Tony") Brown, 31, were charged with...