Word: unorthodox
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...awful months will be paid today or tomorrow." Asked whether Shagari and other former officials would be put on trial, Buhari replied with careful ambiguity. His 19-man Supreme Military Council believes "you are innocent until proved guilty," he said, "but our technique may prove to be a bit unorthodox...
...Such unorthodox private support of everything from teachers' salaries to new computers is on the rise in the U.S. as the question of who will pay for public schools becomes ever more complex. Local property taxes once were the chief source of public school funding. But a series of court decisions over the past decade decreed that this method inevitably led to inequity: schools in well-to-do districts were qualitatively better than those in poor areas. Instead, since 1980, states have provided nearly 50% of schools' public funds, while the rest comes from local and Federal governments...
...other superpowers, Eurasia and Eastasia, is constant, although the pattern of hostilities and alliances keeps changing. Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting old newspaper stories to conform to current Party ideology. He uses the official language, Newspeak, a version of English being pared down to make unorthodox opinions impossible to conceive. Privacy has vanished. Waking and sleeping, Smith and all Party members are observed by two-way telescreens; posters everywhere proclaim BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. Suddenly, Smith commits a thoughtcrime: "Down with Big Brother." He also begins a love affair with Julia, a co-worker...
...keen sense of betrayal. He had seen the future, and it worked far too well; the world was being staked out by mirror-image tyrannies equally ruthless in stamping out the individual. The workers in Barcelona had been punished by the Communists for the crime of being unorthodox; they became, until suppressed, a more important enemy than Franco...
...George, resplendent and unrepentant, winking or moue-ing in four-color splendor. His wardrobe is a tip-to-toe tutorial in the applied art of sartorial shock: coats that Scaramouche might have worn had Scaramouche been a color-blind butcher, a rabbi's black felt hat and unorthodox ties that seem to glow radioactively. His makeup is heavy: mascara (more under the eye than over), raspberry-colored lips, lots of foundation and cantilevered eyebrows. "I try to make my eyes look like Elizabeth Taylor's," he says. "And really, I have one picture of myself that looks...