Word: decorum
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Homer Bennett's birth family was far from perfect. His mom and dad paid the bills by peddling heroin and cocaine from the living room couch of their three-bedroom home on Chicago's South Side. The parents had a sense of decorum. In front of Homer and his brother Frankie, they would refer to the two drugs as "boy" and "girl." Homer and Frankie never learned which was which, though they knew it was dope. Once, when the police came by, the brothers hid underneath a bed, emerging to beg the cops not to take their...
...There are some indications she'll say yes - could she already be a front-runner? Missouri Democrats say Carnahan's support has jumped over 50 percent posthumously, and of course his opponent, John Ashcroft, has been forced to wait out this race in the shackles of decorum - no attacks, no comparisons, no nothing. It's harder running against a departed opponent than you might think...
...Those wacky Australians! I'll tell you, it's about as likely that we'd have a closing like than in the States as the 100-meter relay sprint team - and it wasn't Mo's fault! It was his buddies, those jerks - behaving with the least bit of decorum. Anyway, about the Closing Ceremonies, I mean it was totally political! Midnight Oil singing "Beds Are Burning," Yothu Yindi singing "Treaty" - singing these songs right into John Howard's reddening face. And then that Parade of Icons: wacky, wacky, wacky! On floats, they had Greg Norman hitting golf balls into...
...sexual assault, and it also violates societal decorum," said Andrew J. Klein '04. "It's scary that something like that can happen here...
...epic if you aren't going to imbue it with at least a semblance of the truth? According to Mel's version, one man basically brought down the British army (the British, meanwhile, were themselves controlled by a single man who was inexplicably sadistic and decidedly un-British in decorum). I got so bored during the film (I even yawned during the infamous cannonball decapitation) that I started thinking about what might have happened if we had lost the American Revolution. We'd probably still be controlled by the British, we'd have better movies, Jude Law would thankfully...