Word: unorthodox
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Before Health-Hawker Hauser has half a million Americans ripping out their plumbing to install sitz tubs, or warp themselves like pretzels to sit side-straddle in a bathtub, let me point out that physiotherapists have long advocated sitz baths. And there's nothing unorthodox about soaking your fanny and your feet at the same time...
...worry: his talent is still strong, and backed by a lifetime of ripening experience. Born of wealthy parents, he never had to struggle for a living, always painted as he chose. His parents enrolled him first in Paris' famed Beaux Arts; Segonzac was promptly booted out as too unorthodox. He rented a small Left Bank studio and struck out on his own. When he felt like it, he went off for long painting excursions through the French countryside. But his independence never made him complacent. For his first major canvas, The Drinkers, Segonzac hired two hoboes to pose drinking...
...continued until the Communist conspiracy in our land is smashed beyond repair," and that the job of tracking them down should be turned over to the FBI. "Our police work is aimed at a conspiracy, and not ideas or opinion. Our country was built on unpopular ideas, on unorthodox opinions. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular...
...conductor, he disdains a strict beat (and often any beat at all), breaks every known rule of his art and gets clean away with it. His florid, utterly unorthodox style, his physical grotesqueries on the podium are often taken as vanity or exhibitionism. Admirers prefer to think them the result of his notable freedom from conventional inhibitions. His range of gesticulation may be anything from a full, tense crouch to the subtlest nuance of fingertip or eyebrow. The result, however fantastic to the eye, is nevertheless a brilliant coincidence of musical sensitivity and bodily gesture which comes as an astonishing...
...estimates. Nobody knows exactly how many doctors he has seen, but his mother puts the number at 350. The doctors have tried such standard remedies as sedatives and drugs to slow down the impulses in the phrenic nerve, which controls the diaphragm. Jack has tried many of the unorthodox suggestions from his mailbag, and friends once tried to scare him out of his hiccups by phoning and impersonating the FBI. The scare only made him hiccup harder...