Off in the distance a searchlight flashed on, its beam slashing the sky.

Off to the west a beautiful schooner slowly beat its way into the wind, headed on a tack toward San Clemente.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

In addition to the EP's controversial artwork depicting a gold Christ figure on a cross of dollar bills, the lyrics contained Biafra's most biting social and political commentary yet, and songs such as " Moral Majority ", " Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

The label agreed to let Parton sing country music after her composition, " Put It Off Until Tomorrow ," as recorded by Bill Phillips ( and with Parton, uncredited, on harmony ), went to number six on the country music charts in 1966.

In fact, Hamlet is the most produced Shakespeare play in New York theatre history, with sixty-four recorded productions on Broadway, and an untold number Off Broadway.

* Jeep Jamboree: Off Road Adventure, a video game based on the then-current Jeep Wrangler YJ model

* 1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

* " King ," a song by UB40 on their debut album, Signing Off

* A Far Off Place, film, starring Reese Witherspoon and Ethan Randall, based on the books A Story Like the Wind and A Far Off Place by Laurens Van Der Post

The band's Take Off Your Pants and Jacket ( 2001 ) and Blink-182 ( 2003 ) respectively rose to numbers one and three on the album chart.

Dial impulses are explained already, but the Dial Off Normal contact is used to short circuit the telephone transmitter circuit out of the telephone loop making the pulsing more distinct and also to remove impulsive clicking on the caller's earpiece.

" She also assisted Rock on the track " Run Off to L. A ."

On the Ferris Bueller's Day Off DVD commentary ( featured on the 2004 DVD version ), John Hughes reveals that he shot the two films back to back to save time and money, and some outtakes of both films feature elements of the film crews working on the other film in each case.

By 1965, while attending Hilltop High School within the Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, Waits was playing in an R & B / soul band called The Systems and had begun his first job at Napoleone Pizza House in National City ( about which he would later sing on " I Can't Wait to Get Off Work ( And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue )" from Small Change and " The Ghosts of Saturday Night ( After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House )" on The Heart of Saturday Night ).

A machine can be in 7 power states from S0 ( fully on ) through S5 ( powered down but plugged in ) and disconnected from power ( G3, Mechanical Off ), with names such as " sleep ", " standby ", and " hibernate ".

** Off Scotland, sinks on rocks ; 206 die.

At the 82nd Academy Awards Sheedy, Hall, Ringwald and Nelson all appeared in a tribute to John Hughes, along with other actors who had worked with Hughes, including Jon Cryer from Pretty in Pink, Matthew Broderick from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone.

For example, with his sister Adele, he co-introduced the Gershwins ' " I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise " from Stop Flirting ( 1923 ), " Fascinating Rhythm " in Lady, Be Good ( 1924 ), " Funny Face " in Funny Face ( 1927 ); and, in duets with Ginger Rogers, he presented Irving Berlin's " I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket " in Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Jerome Kern's " Pick Yourself Up " and " A Fine Romance " in Swing Time ( 1936 ), along with The Gershwins ' " Let's Call The Whole Thing Off " from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

Alternatively, a play might be about the production of a play, and include the performance of all or part of the play, as in Noises Off, A Chorus of Disapproval, Les feluettes or The Producers.

Off all housing units in the RCPA, 82. 71 % were built in 1970 or later, and 55. 1 % were built in 1980 or later.

In 1969 Shelton and three friends from Texas founded Rip Off Press in San Francisco, which took over publication of all subsequent Freak Brothers comics.

* Steve Smith-drums on all tracks except " City ", " She's Gone " and " Goin ' Off the Deep End "

In addition to all of Marlatt ’ s published works she can be heard on the CD Like Light Off Water, Otter Bay, 2008, reading passages from her classic poetry cycle, Steveston.

The movie was the basis for an Off Broadway musical, Little Shop of Horrors, which was made into a 1986 feature film and enjoyed a Broadway revival, all of which have attracted attention to the 1960 film.

In the 1980s, Michael Jackson had record-breaking success with his albums Off the Wall, Bad, and Thriller – the latter remaining the best-selling album of all time – transforming popular music and uniting all races, ages and genders, and would eventually lead a revolution helmed by successful crossover black solo artists, including Prince, Lionel Richie, Luther Vandross, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, and Janet Jackson.

In 2004, the Circle Jerks shot a live concert DVD as part of Kung-Fu Records ' live DVD series The Show Must Go Off !, in which the band played many songs from all six of their studio albums, plus – in nods to Schloss ' other current band and Morris ' salad days, respectively – covers of The Weirdos ' " Solitary Confinement " and Black Flag's " Nervous Breakdown ".

In a PM programme interview on BBC Radio 4 that day he pledged to end the public perception of UKIP as a single-issue party and to work with allied politicians in the Better Off Out campaign, committing himself not to stand against the MPs who have signed up to that campaign ( ten in all at this moment ).

For the rest of the year, there is an Off festival that organizes jazz shows in bars all over Montreal.

On at least one occasion, the contestants performed so badly in Round 1 that Ober decided to have them all yanked " Off the Air " at the end of it.

NOTE: In seasons 2-4, if there was no clear third-place player ( i. e., a three-way tie or a tie for second place ) when the TV went " Off the Air ," nobody was eliminated, and all three players played " Think Real Fast.

Off the field the club has an active social calendar and regularly hold social events for all the family.

In 2007, ScrewAttack ranked ActRaiser # 1 on their " Top 10 Big Names That Fell Off ", which listed games that in days past were extremely popular, whether good or bad, but have since all but faded away ( Actraiser was described in a decidedly good way ).

The first CD included " Velocity Girl ", " Take the Skinheads Bowling " and " Can't Take My Eyes Off You " ( all three songs being cover versions of songs originally performed by Primal Scream, Camper Van Beethoven and Frankie Valli, respectively ) and the cassette featured a live recording of " A Design for Life ".

Despite it being a reprint by the end, Vid Kid lasted until Busters final issue at the beginning of 2000, although Jack drew one final page (" How It All Ends ", which revealed what eventually happened to all the characters ) revealing that the millennium bug had affected Vid Kid's remote, meaning the entire universe was turned off after he pressed " Power Off " on it.

* Pay Off: Removes all of one player's mobsters from the hit list.

Norway, together with the designer Hessell Tiltman, having been discharged by the Airship Guarantee Company ( a subsidiary of Vickers ), after the R101 disaster also junked the more successful R100, decided to found their own small aircraft business: Cobham was an early and enthusiastic recruit: indeed, it was thanks to Sir Alan-who placed early orders for two " Off Plan " aircraft ( the three-engined ten seater Ferry ) for his National Aviation Day Limited company – that Airspeed managed to commence manufacturing at all.

Pham announces his plans to free all of the Focused in the entire Emergent civilization, and, if he survives that, to go to the center of the galaxy to find the source of the On / Off star and the strange technology remnants that have clearly traveled with it.

On April 8, 1994, Babes in Toyland played a benefit show for Rock Against Domestic Violence with 7 Year Bitch, and Jack Off Jill in Miami at the Cameo Theater, the same day lead-singer of American grunge rock band Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, had been found dead in his Seattle home.

" Written by Burke and his then wife, Delores Burke, and John " J. B ." Moore, " a vengeful song about getting past someone who has found a new lover, and ... inspired by Burke's marital strife ", it " features his smooth, solid voice lamenting the death of a love affair ", " Got to Get You Off My Mind " was started on 11 December 1964, just hours after Burke heard that his friend Sam Cooke had been murdered, just after Burke ate with him in a Los Angeles restaurant, and on the same day his third wife, Delores, the mother then of 11 of his children, informed him by mail that she wanted a divorce.

* Meritorious Day Off A day given off for meritorious military service

Truancy is a frequent subject of popular culture ; perhaps most famously Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which is entirely about the titular character's ( played by Matthew Broderick ) day of truancy in Chicago with his girlfriend and best friend.

The next day, Patrick eventually wins Kat over with a performance of " Can't Take My Eyes Off You " in front of her entire soccer team.

The Chicago version of the parade was incorporated into the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, even though the movie's plot indicates that Ferris is taking advantage of his " ninth sick day " of the school semester, and other movie details indicate the day takes place near the end of the school year, not in September.

* Earned Day Off, acronym some private EMS companies use for an extra day off awarded to 24 hour shifts.

Entering the contest were 175 cars, including a 1960s Corvette painted in the Stars and Stripes that received an award for best car, the 1959 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder similar to one used in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off that was bought at a cost of over 1 million USD just to take part in the Gumball, as well as American muscle cars and modern day supercars.

NTL Ireland carried ABC1 24-hours, but for unknown reasons ( a problem at ABC1, according to NTL ) the guide reported " Channel Off Air " at 6: 00 pm every day.

The two have since made a few short independent films together, most notably the live-action short A Day Off, which follows a Michael Myers puppet and documents what he does on his day off from murder.

Such hits as " Funky Sound ( Tear The Roof Off )" kept The Sequence touring with many of the Soul Bands of the day.

His introductory remarks on the state of culture in Singapore were the subject of a Straits Times article "' Hands Off ' Challenge to ' Culture Vultures '" the next day.

" Off the field, he was also involved, along with several other Australian players and a number of English team members, in an affair involving Billy Midwinter, an Australian all-rounder, attempted to play for both Australia and his domestic team, Gloucestershire, on the same day.

* Biz Markie's song " Pickin ' Boogers " from his debut album Goin ' Off features the line " I was chillin one day / with my partner Kane / headed up to the rooftop / ridin ' the D train.

Afterwards, he held a series of cliché struggling actor gigs: bartender, waiter, phone answering service attendant and a handful of Off Off Broadway roles, finally earning a role in the music video for David Bowie's " Fashion " for which he was paid $ 50 a day and got to meet David Bowie.