Word: decorum
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Being sued for a million bucks is no cause for Michael Jackson to observe court decorum. Jackson, who's in litigation over his nonparticipation in the money-losing Jackson Family Honors, played peekaboo, giggled and danced before testifying. His lawyer claims he was "nervous...
...resolutely antisensuous as an assembly of naked women could possibly be. Some of them look like seals stranded on rocks. Others are lumpish giantesses. None were painted from actual models because, as his friend the painter Emile Bernard recalled, "he was the slave of an extreme sense of decorum, and...this slavery had two causes: the one, that he didn't trust himself with women; the other, that he had religious scruples and a genuine feeling that such things could not be done in a small provincial town without provoking scandal." Instead, he recycled his old art-school drawings...
...Melanie Griffith fell in love, they demonstrated their affection in ways few could miss. The pregnancy that soon followed made news as well. But the heretofore frenetically expressive couple were married last week in a very private ceremony in London. After all, one ought to maintain some sense of decorum...
...collection is 52 lines, the shortest a mere seven. The poemlets are as richly terse as haiku, while themes in the longer ones reverberate like novels in cameo. Her images are tellingly precise, surprising. In "Mojave Evening," coyotes gather "And not far enough to mean fear/ only decorum/ the periscope ears of three/ no five rabbits. Waiting...
...tight, tense direction makes a good case for the latter. So do actors like Rosemary Harris and George Grizzard, who seem to have lived in their roles for years (only Elaine Stritch, as Agnes' boozy sister, betrays a bit of Broadway shtick). When Grizzard drops his air of befuddled decorum for a climactic aria of rage and resolve ("I want your plague! You've got some terror with you? Bring it in! Bring it in!!"), the heart freezes...