Word: unorthodox
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Even if the radicals and moderates do manage to triumph over the Communists, Portugal's future will remain precarious. Were Saraiva de Carvalho to emerge as a strongman, Portugal might well escape an East European-type dictatorship only to end up with a perhaps unorthodox but still dictatorial system. Then, too, nobody could discount the possibility that if the drift toward anarchy continues, the old right wing, powerless since the April 1974 revolution, might stage a coup. Indeed, the anti-Communist activities led by the armed forces' moderates provided an umbrella for all kinds of non-Communist groups...
...Some doctors explain that Preparation H works on the face by slightly irritating the skin, thus causing enough swelling to minimize small wrinkles; continued use, they warn, may accelerate skin aging by causing inflammation and scaling. American Home Products Corp., which produces Preparation H, has no comment on its unorthodox use. But physicians warn that like any other medication, it should be used only as directed-and the face, they point out, is not the part of the anatomy mentioned in the instructions on the label...
...Hemingway Play. This is the biggie of the Loeb's summer season, the world premiere of a play that won the National Playwrights Conference Award in 1973. Author Frederic Hunter has chosen to tell the story of Hemingway's life in a rather unorthodox way--four different Hemingways, each representing the writer at a different stage of his life, meet each other during the course of the play, Advance word is that the play is no less than "great," and an excellent cast has been assembled for its debut. Opens at the Loeb Wednesday and continues through August 9, with...
...Town struck its early audiences as highly unorthodox (partly because it lacked the normal theatrical suspense and conflict), but it was welcomed across the country in every city except Boston, where its chilly reception caused the run to be halved. Actually, Wilder's technique here evolved out of his own one-act plays of 1931, especially Pullman Car Hiawatha, where we find no scenery, minimal props, the versatile Stage Manager, and even the very name of Grover's Corners (located in Ohio this time, however), not to mention the prototype of Emily's valedictory apostrophe to the world...
...colonists survived against the most powerful nation of their day, not because of strong national sentiment but rather because of a host of other factors: the extended British lines, the aid of the French, the unorthodox modes of American warfare, the ingenious makeshifts and improvisations of American commanders who had not had the advantage of being bred in a rigid European military etiquette (Americans would actually fight at night, in the woods and on rainy days), and the steadfast, courageous leadership of George Washington. In retrospect it might be more accurate to say that the British lost, than that...