Word: decorous
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...Decor...
...line. Let them sing and dance and flaunt their 84 layers of clothing on the tables in Cabot--especially when the dining hall is flooded. Let them smoke up a storm and try to set off the smoke detectors in Currier--if they can. Let them redecorate the hotelesque decor at North House to all black. I don't care...
Falling in love and staying there, these movies say, is a challenge of art and artifice. Like making a comedy of insane decor, or remaking a tale as old as time. The Addams Family turns voodoo into visual wit. Beauty and the Beast casts its own shimmering spell...
...what we hear: the dialogue that makes us laugh, or the music that cues our tears. If we do look at a film, it's to watch the actors' fine faces emoting at high pitch. Everything else, everything that touches our senses more subtly -- the lighting, the decor, the very design of the film -- is just furniture. We go to Macy's for that stuff, not to the movies...
...casual observer, the Freshman Dean's office does not look like it has changed much over the summer, only a few subtle alterations in decor hinting that something is different about the headquarters for Harvard's 1600 first-year students...