Word: decorums
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...want her to be Queen). He has modernized his office and pays income tax voluntarily. His focus on what we will hand down to future generations makes him an environmental activist, but a constitutional conservative. So it may be that when the time comes, Charles will retreat into a decorum as impervious and uninspiring as his mother's. Which may help explain why he is a workaholic now. The clock is ticking - and Charles is an old soul in a hurry...
...modern life that it was only a matter of time until some watchdog of etiquette claimed the turf and started drawing boundaries and making rules. Still, credit Judith Martin, the author of the syndicated Miss Manners advice column, with considerable alertness in spotting a tiny void in the decorum field and then moving in with well-wrapped parcels of wisdom about the Net and other conveniences of late 20th century life, like the answering machine and the fax. Though one might suspect her of being a grumpy traditionalist in these matters, or even a Luddite, Martin has pleasantly mixed feelings...
Still, there is down-to-earthiness in the women's conversation between assignments. And Writers Borden and Sandra Kaye have created a memorable character in Lucy (Ellen McElduff), the Miss Manners of madams, compulsive in her record keeping and her insistence on tidiness and decorum. One can imagine Lucy succeeding as well in a more lawful form of shadiness -- public relations, perhaps. In any case, McElduff achieves a level of wry social commentary that the rest of the film only aspires...
...exactly up on Usher's latest hits. "You should have seen their faces after we played one of the songs," says Perry Moore, laughing, referring to the Christian rap CD that comes with Real. "They were, like, 'How can this be Christian?' And some religious leaders question the biblezines' decorum. "The Bible is a word that stands on its own," says Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. "Packaging it surrounded by tips on cosmetics and dating and popularity in school is a dangerous precedent." But Thomas Nelson isn't dodging its detractors...
...good things, such as curtailing cannibalism and incessant warfare. "But they also put a stop to a lot of our fun," says Puloka. As well as fanifo, underwater rugby (played among the breakers with hilarity and all manner of monkey business) seems to have been a casualty of British decorum. Traditional culture survives, though only in more formal incarnations, such as kava ceremonies and dance. Despite the hot climate, it is still forbidden for men or women to go shirtless in public...