Word: unorthodox
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...help from an unlikely source: a little-read Washington expose that describes him as "an imbecile of fantastic proportions" and suggests that he is gay. Pressler is making the book's rumors, and his contention that his opponent helped spread them, the cornerstone of his unorthodox bid for a fourth term. Depending on whom you ask, Pressler's crusade is either a principled stand against mudslinging or a shrewdly cynical attempt to win votes by presenting himself as a victim...
...most dramatic example of how a wide range of techniques, known collectively as alternative medicine, is winning both popularity with patients and acceptance (or at least increased tolerance) among physicians. As modern medicine moves on to new frontiers, it is uneasily accompanied by a camp following of nonconventional, unorthodox medical practices. Some of them have been around for hundreds, even thousands, of years; others, like biofeedback, are modern techniques that have found useful niches alongside orthodox medicine...
Most of the New Otani employees are immigrants. And the tactics used against the hotel are typical of the unorthodox new weapons of labor's "corporate campaigns." Local 11 of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees sends delegations to Japan and Hong Kong to rally Asian unions against the hotel and urge travel agents to avoid it. It has secured endorsements from scores of the city's Asian and Latino civic and business groups, as well as 11 out of 15 city councillors, and it blocked rush-hour traffic with a sit-down protest last spring that resulted in 57 arrests...
LAST WINTER DANCE CRITIC Arlene Croce wrote a controversial essay for the New Yorker in which she discussed choreographer Bill T. Jones' production Still/Here without having seen it. She justified her unorthodox move by claiming she didn't have to sit through the piece, a treatise on aids and other terminal illnesses, to know what she was going to get--a lot of easy emotionalism. Certain kinds of art, literature and film, Croce argued, are too manipulative to be judged objectively, too predictable, essentially, to be bothered with...
...Perot too, the Powell withdrawal was a godsend. The general had already ruled out a run under the banner of Perot's new third party. Had he run instead as an unorthodox Republican, Powell the nonpolitician would have carried off a good part of the Perot vote. So Perot was happy last week to praise Powell while he buried him. On CNN's Larry King Live, Perot talked about what a fine candidate Powell would have been, while advancing his own agenda. Perot blamed "the dirty tricks, the gutter politics" for scaring off the best contenders...