Word: unorthodox
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...This is hardly the first unorthodox tune to make the charts in Japan, but it is the first company anthem. Few teenyboppers would choose to rock out to, say, the theme of Fujitsu Ltd., which exhorts: "We plan on uniting all our new techniques/ Over all the world...
...Disney Hall was born of a $50 million gift given in 1987 by Walt Disney's widow Lillian. The radically curvy building opened six years late and at more than twice its original $110 million price tag because disagreements over Gehry's unorthodox design, coupled with California's economic woes (the mid-1990s version), slowed construction...
...County schools' director of assessment Ginger Davis-Beck says that in anticipation of the revamped test, her district might split Grade 10 into a semester of geometry and a semester of Algebra II for students who didn't get to Algebra I until Grade 9; it would be an unorthodox move that could require hiring more teachers. In Ohio, curriculum specialist Jennifer Manoukian of the Sycamore school system, outside Cincinnati, feels uneasy about the prospect of grammar questions. "Research shows that direct instruction of grammar is not beneficial," she says. "The correlation between that kind of grammar instruction and student...
...three years, Sternberg has been working on a new test to augment the SAT, one that asks students to write captions for New Yorker cartoons, dictate stories into tape recorders and persuade friends to help haul a bulky mattress up a flight of stairs. These unorthodox tasks are designed to measure the creative and practical skills that Sternberg says are crucial to success in college and in life but are ignored by the typical pencil-and-paper exam. If Sternberg succeeds in quantifying these types of intelligence--and linking them to concrete accomplishments--his efforts may change forever...
Some segments celebrated unorthodox combinations of artistic media. One performance juxtaposed a video of spliced shots of prison cells with an original composition of techno music and a live dramatic dialogue...