Word: decorum
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...worth it?" No one thinks of accusing them of indecently exploiting these tragic deaths for political reasons. Yet when the President talks about his own leadership through and after 9/11, he is accused of exploitation. It is understandable that Democrats would want the proper bounds of political decorum to be defined by talk of job losses and of difficulties in Iraq. But since when do partisans design the playing field...
...more hurting than healing in House of Sand and Fog, which pits Kingsley's Behrani against Kathy Nicolo (Jennifer Connelly). Both have seen better days. He, a lionhearted military man who has lost his country but not his will to power, clings to his pride and decorum, changing into a suit after his grimy, sweaty workdays on a road-construction crew so that he can go home to his wife and son in white-collar dignity. Connelly plays a recovering alcoholic struggling with depression who makes the critical error of failing to pay her property taxes. He uses his savings...
Girl with a Pearl Earring, which concerns the Vermeer portrait of a delicate young woman with an intense gaze, was all sublimated passion and quiet decorum. The Lady and the Unicorn centers on the series of tapestries that today hang in Paris' Musee National du Moyen Age depicting a woman's seduction of a unicorn. Not surprisingly, the proceedings are more overtly carnal. The story begins in 1490 when the painter Nicolas des Innocents, whose appetites pointedly contradict his name, is commissioned by the wealthy Parisian Jean Le Viste to design six tapestries glorifying the nobleman's status at court...
Unfortunately for those who cling to decorum even in their most inebriated moments, some actions just don’t have a place in the code of manners. “Throwing up in someone’s car or on your neighbor—it’s probably impossible to do that politely,” Ms. Mannersmith maintains, recounting the story of one prominent Yalie’s vomit-related faux pas. Ms. Mannersmith’s final judgment on Bush Sr.’s throwing up on a Japanese dignitary while on tour in Japan...
...imply that blonde hair is Britney’s only asset. Starting at the age of 17 in a black push-up bra, she has exposed said assets with increasing frequency on the cover of Rolling Stone. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, on the other hand, displayed far more decorum and less flesh than Spears in their recent cover photo. This is certainly to their credit, but it skirts the issue of why Michelle Tanner was even on the cover of Rolling Stone in 2003. Did anyone seriously think the Olsens would be the break-out stars of Full House...