Word: offbeat
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...like to be privy to everyone else's weird thoughts and ways of looking at things," says Cooperson, in explanation of his love of languages. A tangential interest is drawing--in particular creating cartoons--again reflecting his sense of the offbeat. Last year he helped put together a cartoon book, and he has done the graphics for several of the house T-shirts. Cooperson jokingly traces this interest in the unusual back to his hometown: Wilmington, Delaware. "It's so small and American. I needed the exotic...
...project to mount flowers on trees around Harvard Yard and the revival of a ballet based on the comic strip "Krazy Kat" were among the 10 offbeat proposals selected this week to receive funds from the Harvard-Radcliffe Arts Council...
...Researcher Elizabeth Bland, who assisted Cocks with the story, interviewed the musician-director several times in New York City. Bland says her initial fears about Byrne's daunting reserve were dissolved by the singer's dry wit. In Texas, Houston Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury attempted to hunt down the offbeat characters who played themselves in True Stories, including a man with dancing goldfish...
...culture. Composer Philip Glass has brought the pulsating idiom of rock into the sacred precincts of the opera house, while Theater Artist Robert Wilson's slow-motion dreamscapes have influenced not only a neophyte filmmaker like Byrne but an experienced theater director like Andrei Serban. Performance art, an offbeat amalgam of music, theater, narration and stand-up comedy, has caught flight on the puckish wings of Laurie Anderson. Choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, Lucinda Childs and Laura Dean have pushed out the envelope of movement with each new step they have taken...
...where this film is leading, especially because it is devoid of the obvious, manipulative devices used in so many American movies. Don't look for any sappy moments of oversentimentality here, or any jokes to hit you over the head. But the tone is appealing, and the characters are offbeat and well-defined, even if the plot seems a little slow...