Word: offbeat
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Another book about the overanalyzed and all too familiar Nixon Administration? Yes. But this time two CBS television newsmen have sliced through conventional explanations with some offbeat conclusions about what went wrong. The most provocative: the single event that did most to ruin Nixon was, of all things, Chappaquiddick...
Such meticulous work may seem gritty and unassuming, especially since it appears thrice weekly on the same Post page that features such stars as Joseph Alsop, Joseph Kraft, and Evans and Novak. Yet Raspberry's strength rests precisely in the quiet, offbeat nature of his interests. Years of street experience have made Raspberry, 38, an expert in three areas usually shunned by general columnists: education, criminal justice and drug abuse...
...loose chemise dominated almost all the Paris presentations. Givenchy brought forth a somewhat slimmer and more refined version with hems stopping just two inches below the knees. Dior's Marc Bohan played a variation on the theme, dubbed the Big Droop, while Cardin swooped in with an offbeat bat-winged dress featuring sleeves starting at the hem. Even Courreges, daddy of the mini, decorously draped the knee in this year's designs, threatening to leave mankind with nothing but fond memories of leg-watching...
...this exquisite setting, the company's excellent veteran musical director Julius Rudel last week introduced an offbeat operatic double bill consisting of Antonio Salieri's Prima la Musica e Poi le Parole (First the Music and Then the Words) and Mozart's The Impresario. Since both works deal with backstage intrigue, and both had their premieres together in 1786 on commission from Austria's enlightened Emperor Joseph II, the two one-acters would seem made for each other...
...fall season, NBC must make the big decision-who will be the man to fill the late Frank McGee's spot on Today? Explains one network insider about the Great Host Hunt: "They're trying to make up their minds whether to go with somebody controversial, somebody offbeat or Mr. Nice...