Word: decorum
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...face in a very short skirt” routine is less vaudeville and more ritual humiliation. The movie seems to perpetuate, rather than poke fun at, the ridiculous conventions of the Hollywood romantic comedy. There are some glimpses of the old Bridget: smart, funny, wholly lacking in decorum. But these moments are outnumbered by the formulaic structure of the narrative, to the point where we’re not sure whether this is Notting Hill, Love Actually, or just some hideous amalgam of all the other resolutely WASPy, sickly-sweet Richard Curtis creations...
DeMint learned a thing or two about making a public impression as a child after his mother started the DeMint Academy of Dance and Decorum in the family home. If too few girls showed up for dance lessons, he was pressed into service, standing in for one. He later married his junior high school sweetheart and went to work in her father's advertising firm--as good a training ground for modern American politics...
There are some glimpses of the old Bridget: smart, funny, wholly lacking in decorum. In one of the most compelling indictments against private education ever set forth on screen, Bridget describes Darcy’s alma mater, Eton, as “one of those fascist institutions where they stick a poker up your arse which you’re not allowed to take out for the rest of your life.” She takes on the uptight lawyers at one of Darcy’s work functions, railing against their tiresome Tory belief systems but oblivious to their...
...flung him in, / And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin….My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory / The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori...
...potential to cloud debate on the upcoming referendum. First, the editorial questioned the council’s capacity to maturely deliberate issues of great importance to students because of “hostility and childish antics” at council meetings. In fact (as the editorial later concedes), decorum at council meetings has improved dramatically over the last several weeks. Furthermore, the “childish antics” that occurred in the past were isolated to three or four particularly disruptive council members—who also happened to oppose holding the referendum. The rest of the council...