Word: unorthodox
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...life-style may be odd, the methods unorthodox, but Warren Beatty gets what he wants. And it almost invariably works ?and sells. No actor of his generation, not Redford or Nicholson, has been a star half as long as Beatty has. Few in the film industry make as much money. No one can do so many of the jobs required to create a successful film as he. In the most visible function, acting, Beatty, unlike Travolta or De Niro, began at the top. He has been a sensation ever since he first appeared on the screen, in Splendor...
...introduction that she may have been picked for the task because she wrote long, favorable reviews of his books. It seems more likely that impenetrable discretion won her the job. Gardner was clearly a very eccentric man, an upstart as a boy in California, a brazen and unorthodox young lawyer in Ventura County, Calif. Many of Mason's more bizarre tactics resembled his creator's. In the most famous, Gardner sprang a group of Chinese from gambling charges by substituting other Chinese at the addresses where they were to be picked up; the local prosecutors could not tell...
Enter Mr. Cunningham, who wasn't content with Harvard's three-seat lead at that juncture. "Before we lost the momentum of the 20," Pickering recalled, "Kev quickly shouted out a power-ten on top of it." The unorthodox tactic doubled Harvard's lead and gave the Crimson some breathing room as the boats headed for the final 500 meters...
...South, noted Algeo, partly because there is less infant baptism than up North and nicknames are more likely to get started and stick before the ceremony intervenes. Some pollsters have suggested that the nickname helped Carter with younger voters. But as criticism of Carter has mounted, his seemingly casual, unorthodox approach to the presidency may now be working against...
...independent Palestinian state bent on the destruction of Israel. He recognized that it was sad testimony to the rarefied and hopeless level of the Middle East debate if he were prohibited from saying that 1) the Palestinian people exist, and 2) they have legitimate rights. In his sometimes unorthodox use of language, Carter helped induce others to take a fresh look at the hidebound diplomatic formulas. In short, he shook things up in a salutary...