Word: unorthodox
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...stellar career of her own, played up to her potential, which she failed to do against the Crimson the first time around. She set the Ivy three-point mark in the first half and connected on 8-of-16 from three-point land for the game while using an unorthodox scissor-kick shot. Her Ivy career ended with 145 treys, eclipsing the old mark...
While the final shot may have looked unorthodox, Clemente had no problem with...
...measure of Chatwin's flamboyance that, scarcely 11 years after his death, he has already inspired two indelible biographies. Susannah Clapp's With Chatwin, of two years ago, was as sleek and elliptical and unorthodox as its subject, and gave us the man as he looked from across an editor's desk. Shakespeare, a stylish novelist with a gift for exotic locales (in the Acknowledgments he cites sources in 22 countries, from Benin to Nepal), provides every other face. The figure who emerges was a deeply solitary soul, hiding behind his exaggerated performances but genuinely driven by a vision...
This is a story about boxes. In the world headquarters of the unorthodox literary journal McSweeney's--a Brooklyn, N.Y., duplex apartment strewn with printouts, antique books and sporting goods--Dave Eggers is considering the structural integrity of a Dunkin' Donuts box. There's been a snag with issue No. 4, consisting of 14 exquisitely designed miniature books. It's supposed to come in a sturdy custom box, but the prototype won't close, and the printer--which is, no kidding, in Iceland--is scrambling for a replacement. Now, say editor Eggers and editor at large Sean Wilsey, munching...
...election, says Phil Klinkner, director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College, each candidate will have to concentrate on mobilizing a solid, if unorthodox, combination of voters. "You've got this interesting mixing up of voting bases in this race," says Klinkner. "She has some appeal with independent or nominally Republican suburban women," while he may be able to corner some law-and-order Democrats. If she wants to emerge victorious, says Muzzio, Clinton will have to win back the women who have become disengaged with her candidacy, by talking about issues particularly appealing to women, such...