Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covers the Supreme Court and the Justice Department for TIME. The assignment led him to Sirica's courtroom a year ago, and from there to a close association with the judge. "Sirica has always been accessible to newsmen," Beckwith says, "but he has a highly developed sense of decorum, and is well respected by the press for his discretion." Beckwith spent hours with the judge: in his chambers, in his car and in his den at home. Says Beckwith, who graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1971, "My legal background helped me to appreciate the technical...
Though somewhat less inspired, the courtly side of the plot unfolds with the decorum and irony fitting the overactive imagination of the Count and his sought-after Olivia. As the rejected lover, the Count dons black and hangs his court in purple, while the Lady, mourning her dead brother, parades about in black and purple lace...
Robin, a fox, is a bit of a drag, though, and Maid Marian carries on with the giddy decorum of a sixth-grade class room monitor...
...Varrick, Matthau preserves a certain feckless, shambling decorum. He dispenses his lines with the wry authority of a bartender adding a twist to a martini. There is also an especially sharp performance by Sheree North, portraying a shady photographer. The movie, overall, is smoothly customized entertainment, but Siegel has a weakness for gratuitous cruelty. A few scenes have a seaminess that goes beyond simple atmospherics. · Jay Cocks
...gulf between a natural expression of sex and the overly bawdy or overly arty films that actually get made. Last Tango in Paris, for example, is a film about decadence, but it becomes decadent itself only in its sex scenes, where filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, caught between discarded rules of decorum and unacceptable liberality, filmed simulations and dirty jokes. The petty sex scenes undercut the excellence of the rest of the film...