Word: decorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beauty is suspect these days. Any movie that luxuriates in decor and landscape will be seen to dawdle (Aren't these the passages we all skipped over in the novels our English teachers demanded we read?). A pretty face in a pretty picture stirs all sorts of righteous suspicions about artists who wallow in nostalgia for the glamorous artifacts of a despotic past...
...authors of the Massachusetts bill are the odd couple of American feminism. Michigan law professor Catharine MacKinnon is sleek and stylishly dressed-for-success. Writer Andrea Dworkin (Pornography: Men Possessing Women and Intercourse), with her tousled hair and overalls-and-T-shirt decor, looks like a radical from...
Upon entering the club's Member's Lounge, one immediately notices the ancient decor. The wood paneling recalls "the olde days," and antique posters and yellowed photographs of past members grace the walls. A large sign hangs on the stairway landing, boasting the number of U.S. presidents who are former members, from John Adams to John F. Kennedy...
...know this is true because you've seen them. In record stores, the "classical" section is usually separated from the rest of the store; it has a more serious decor, a more serious clientele, and more serious music playing in the background. Sometimes there are even serious video displays, banks of television screens showing overweight people galumphing about a stage and bellowing in a foreign language. The overall impression one gets is that classical music is a very serious affair...
Germantown has the biggest houses, the highest per capita income and the most fastidious taste. It rejected the new national Shell station decor because it was tacky. Cordova--which may or may not be part of Memphis--is just a little livelier. Raleigh, Bartlett and Frayser claim not to be hick suburbs, but you should go see for yourself...