Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arensbergs had bizarre figures of the Greenwich Village avant-garde like Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, the first New York punkette, who made public appearances with her hair shaved off and her scalp dyed purple. Such creatures would never have been tolerated at Stettheimer's evenings in town, where decorum prevailed, or her picnics in the country, which she painted as fetes champetres full of wispy, epicene figures...
...theater company was not amused. After the performance, the actors lectured my class on the appropriate decorum of a theater audience. Clearly they had mistaken Pygmalion for some other, much more serious, play, No Exit perhaps...
...temptations of sun, sand and free drinks notwithstanding, Redford says, Harvard students are the souls of decorum...
Postmodern, anti-linear decorum suggests that it isn't important to start at the beginning, and chances are you'll arrive in the middle of the sequence. What is important is Hill's coupling of text and video which explores the relationship between space and time, language and reality. These relationships, set forth by Heidegger in the early 20th century, have been severely upset by the advent of electronic media...
...news program to issue an emotional appeal. Saying nothing about his brother, he denounced the Zedillo government for the ``errors of December,'' an unmistakable reference to his successor's disastrous peso devaluation, which sent the economy into a tailspin. While Salinas' statement transfixed Mexicans with its breach of political decorum, it did little to restore the reputation of the former President...