Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush loves Hynes' book, and sent him fan letters, though they have never met, saying the only difference between his war (Navy Air Corps) and Hynes' (Marine Air Corps) was clean linen. Navy carriers have decorum as well as dangers. But onshore, Bush lived in the world vividly described by Hynes as full of booze, womanizing and raunchy songs. Bush, describing the book to me, singled out this aspect of it as extraordinarily accurate -- "the experience in the bars, and the experience in the singing, and the experience of his ((Hynes')) macho guy." But I relayed Hynes' difficulty in imagining...
Even so, for years most Americans were content to imagine the Latin world as a tropical paradise or a giant border town, a torrid zone just across the line of sexual decorum, that most heavily policed boundary in the American psyche. Though that image is being discarded, it is not going without a fight. In a Miami department store not long ago, the Cuban-born fashion designer Adolfo, a favorite of Nancy Reagan's, was pained to overhear two women express surprise that he was the creator of a collection that was elegant and simple. "Obviously," he laments, "they just...
Never before had the British Broadcasting Corporation's on-air decorum been so severely tested. Just as Newscasters Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell were about to begin The Six O'Clock News, four women rushed into the London studio. Their aim: to protest legislation prohibiting local authorities from promoting homosexuality...
...suddenly, we are expected to abandon our notions of civilized decorum and run amok like some base creature of the wild. Abandoning basic norms of human behavior is no problem for most, but even if this initial obstacle can be overcome, the road to a successful, "call waiting" experience remains fraught with danger...
...food vanished first. As word spread that the government was drastically raising prices, panicky shoppers snapped up sugar, flour and cooking oil by the crateload, quickly clearing grocery-store shelves. Decorum went next. Chanting "Down with prices!," 5,000 striking steelworkers hurled tin cans and hunks of bread at officials in the southern city of Skopje in the first organized labor protest to hit Yugoslavia since it became a Communist country, in 1945. Cowed officials promptly doubled some wages. In a no less startling outburst, the press and even some Communist leaders intensified calls for the resignation of Prime Minister...