Word: unorthodox
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...Green's unorthodox style bespeaks his resolute individuality. Sir Walter Simpson in 1887 in his definitive The Art of Golf recognized the strengths of the unorthodox stylist: "Do I maintain, the reader may ask, that everyone ought to have the same style? By no means; on the contrary, for you or me to model ourselves on a champion is about as profitless as to copy out Hamlet in the hope of becoming Shakespeare...
...apartment and snatched Wolstencroft's briefcase containing the names of some 300 American depositors in Wolstencroft's bank in the Bahamas. Casper, an undercover informant for the Internal Revenue Service, took the case to an IRS agent, who photocopied the contents. This was all part of an unorthodox IRS investigation known as Project Haven, which was aimed at Caribbean financial high jinks. One of the alleged depositors, listed in the copied documents as having a $100,000 account, was a self-described retired investor, Jack Payner, of Cleveland. He was subsequently indicted on a charge of having falsely...
...second act is a repeat of the first, except this time with all the multi-media possibilities of the Loeb exploited. This part is wholly the creation of director Peter Sellars '80, Harvard's own artist-huckster Christo who as a freshman has foisted this crazy unorthodox production on the mainstage. His concept is a chic one A la Altman and Chorus Line, the director and actors got together during rehearsal in a dance studio filled with mirrors and spent a month improvising, trying to squeeze characters out of the Sitwell poetry, while a photographer snapped glamourous pictures...
Nevelson discussed her methods of creating. "I'm very unorthodox--sometimes I visualize a piece before it's created, and sometimes not. I don't like smocks and I don't like studios; all I need is a lot of different rooms to move about...
...Ambassador Andrew Young kept expressing unorthodox and sometimes personal views on sensitive issues (see following story). One of Young's U.N. appointees caused another stir. At a meeting of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Brady Tyson, deputy chief of the U.S. delegation, publicly apologized for what he described as "the role some Government officials, agencies and private groups played in the subversion of the democratically elected Chilean government." Though Carter himself condemned the U.S. during the campaign for helping to overthrow "an elected government," he reprimanded Tyson for making an "inappropriate" remark...