Word: offbeaters
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Kahn, who covered the Olympics for the New Yorker for several decades, delivers a much more oddball view of the Games than any other scribe. Kahn's Olympics are a kind of mad but truthful circus filled with offbeat individuals who, for some reason, join every four years to do the most bizarre things...
Attracting a core of writers more interested incult groups than dean searches, The Whatprided itself on timely reporting on topicalissues, colorful essays on out-of-the-way places,and a funky, brash, offbeat style...
RICKIE LEE JONES: POP POP (Geffen). One of rock's most idiosyncratic talents bends pop standards like I'll Be Seeing You and Second Time Around to her own offbeat styling. She comes up with interpretations that career between the telling and the bizarre, but some of the most surprising renditions -- like, for God's sake, Hi-Lili Hi-Lo -- turn out to be the most successful...
...with that, what may be Cambridge's most offbeat resource will continue to offer 21st-century relief to businesspeople, Harvard students and stressed-out Cantabrigians, fighting against their all-too-famous reputation for lunacy...
SESSIONS (HBO, debuting Oct. 6, 10:10 p.m. EDT). A 42-year-old husband and father (Michael McKean) discusses his sexual fantasies and mid-life neuroses with a sympathetic shrink (Elliott Gould). Billy Crystal created and co-wrote this offbeat comedy series, which is frank and frequently clever, though a bit mushy at the center...