Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past president of the American League of Lobbyists. "Some have a total distortion of how the business end of things operates." Although former Congressmen are permitted on the floors of the House and Senate, they are painfully aware of the unspoken rule against lobbying there. Sometimes their sense of decorum goes too far: "Many of them are afraid to ask for favors," says Drabble. "They don't want to be heavyhanded, whereas a regular lobbyist will just say, 'Can't we get this exact language...
...committee noted that its action could nullify the voluntary "interclub agreement" of decorum and order during the punching season as well as their in formal agreement with the College to behave responsibly...
Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) has just been busted for disturbing the affluence of Beverly Hills; a few moments before, some bad guys had shattered decorum and a plate-glass window by heaving him through the latter. Now Axel, who hails from Detroit, where the fuzz's lot is mostly scuzz, looks wonderingly around. "This is the cleanest and nicest police car I've ever been in in my life," he murmurs. "This thing's nicer than my apartment." Very politely he requests the arresting officers to pull over if they just happen to spot any movie...
...only the largest canvas of Stubbs' career but the grandest in structure and, to modern eyes, the most suggestive. That immense, glossy brown frame of the horse, floating across one's whole field of vision, has the compulsive power of a dream image. In the interest of decorum, Stubbs left out the wounds and weals on Hambletonian's flanks, but his sympathies remained with the animal: white slaver flecks his mouth, the ears lie back flat, and the pink tongue lolls in the aftermath of exhaustion. The creature is attended, none too reverently, by brown pragmatic dwarfs...
...decorum of Wednesday's festivities was, if anything, a veneer. Yes, Reagan supporters slipped quietly in and out of the crowd without jeering, and yes. Democrats refrained from calling Reagan's Christianity into question. Yet those very same Republicans proudly sported signs with grotesque illustrations of fetuses and slogans depicting Ferraro as a bad Catholic, while their so-called issues-oriented counterparts joined in choruses of "Ronald Reagan, he's no good, send him back to Hollywood" and waved signs imploring their cohorts to "Break Ronald Reagan's Arms" in a tasteless pun on his defense policy...