Word: unorthodox
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Borderline (Universal-International) is just one more in the long series of movies that try to make 1934's It Happened One Night happen all over again. Thrown together on an unorthodox journey in Mexico and forced to pose as husband & wife, Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor bicker their way into true love. They mistake each other for dope-smuggling hijackers, but each is really an agent of the law who thinks that the other will have to be turned in when they reach the border...
...their "spare time" give help and advice to those who ask for it. Not much is known of them, in France or elsewhere. While not secret, the work of the Missions is kept discreetly quiet, to avoid attracting undue attention from the Communists, and because their priests' unorthodox activities sometimes offend strait-laced Roman Catholics. But on no other front is the church working any harder to reclaim its lost sheep...
...court that the Government had used, then destroyed or concealed data that would prove the whole case was based on inadmissible evidence, his fellow counsel, noisy little Archie Palmer, bounced around the courtroom in his familiar court jester's manner. "I don't know whether your unorthodox tactics are the result of contemptuous buffoonery or personal eccentricity," the judge finally exploded at one point, "but I want them stopped...
...short while later, her unorthodox make-up perfectly accenting her expressive features, Carol Channing took her place behind the footlights, her solemn technique rewarded by waves of laughter pouring in to her from a packed house. To anyone watching from the wings, it was obvious that the new star knew exactly what she was about...
...loyalty oath was issued in order to punish and prevent unorthodox political thinking and opinion, and not to prevent subversive action, is clear when we examine the Federal acts in force at the time of the adoption of the order. There existed at that time, and still exist, statutes punishing sabatoge, 50 USC 104-6; espionage, 50 USC 31-2; treason, 18 USC 1-3; sedition, 18 USC 10; and in addition, conspiracy to commit any of the above was punished under 18 USC 88. Also, Federal Civil Service employees are liable for discharge "for such cause as will promote...