Word: offbeat
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DANCING. When I was in the tenth grade I knew a girl who was a serious ballet dancer. She looked really smarter than your average girl but in an interesting, offbeat way. So I attached myself to her and she brought me to a ballet class, and that's where I met Christopher Flynn, who saved me from my high school turmoil. He had a ballet school in Rochester. It was beautiful. I didn't know what I was doing, really. I was with these really professional ballet dancers. I had only studied jazz up to then...
CRUCIFIXES AND ROSARIES. I think I have always carried around a few rosaries with me. There was the turquoise-colored one that my grandmother had given to me a long time ago. One day I decided to wear it as a necklace. I thought, "This is kind of offbeat and interesting." I mean, everything I do is sort of tongue in cheek. It's a strange blend -- a beautiful sort of symbolism, the idea of someone suffering, which is what Jesus Christ on a crucifix stands for, and then not taking it seriously at all. Seeing it as an icon...
Today Murdoch oversees a barony of more than 80 publications that stretches from the august Times of London to the brassy London Sun (with 4.1 million readers, the world's largest English-language daily), from yuppie- caressing New York magazine to the Star, a tabloid weekly once specializing in offbeat diets and visits by UFOs that is now trying to climb upscale. The prototypical Murdoch daily is flag-waving conservative, and politicians favored by its owner are featured prominently in the news columns. At a time when newspapers are increasingly concerned with attracting affluent readers, Murdoch presents himself...
GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE, the narrator, a sixtyish widowed doctor and impassioned amateur Flaubert scholar, buttonholes us with a barrage of offbeat facts, quotation from Flaubert's letters, meditations on his art, and opinions on literature in general. He's obsessed with his subject, and gently craws the reader into his obsession...
...ceremony was oversize. The whole business, in fact, is Big Enterprise at work. About 85% of the U.S. record industry is controlled by six mega-diskeries: CBS, Warner, RCA, MCA, Capitol and PolyGram. Even so, 20 of last week's 67 % Grammys were won by the products of such offbeat labels as Arhoolie, Top Hits, Reunion and Delos. These names represent the recording business's vibrant flip side, a growing industry of as many as 2,000 small, independent companies...