Word: decorums
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...says decorum is gone from Capitol Hill? After a week of Senate deliberations that might have been mistaken for a schoolyard rumble as they prepared to vote on their balanced-budget amendment, the members arranged themselves into something like a class picture. All were seated decorously at their antique mahogany desks. As the clerk called their names, each rose separately to announce his or her vote. Republican Hank Brown of Colorado even put his hand over his heart as he said, "Aye." You could almost forget that most of them still had slingshots in their back pockets...
...news program to issue an emotional appeal. Saying nothing about his brother, he denounced the Zedillo government for the ``errors of December,'' an unmistakable reference to his successor's disastrous peso devaluation, which sent the economy into a tailspin. While Salinas' statement transfixed Mexicans with its breach of political decorum, it did little to restore the reputation of the former President...
...follows, then, that these celebrities have a responsibility as citizens to maintain some sense of decorum. Leave the indecorous to British royalty. American gliterrati should be as wholesome as boy scout leaders. Oops. Why don't we scratch that last thought...
Arturo Coruzzo leads two lives. In his workaday world, the 33-year-old Verona bank clerk tries to be the picture of decorum. There was a weekend this month, however, when he went just a bit crazy. Two Saturdays ago, he stood halfway up a Swiss ski slope yelling himself hoarse with cries of ``Forza, Alberto!'' As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence. Too late. His hero, rushed by a mob of other brandy-fueled fanatics, ran for protection. Was a blurred whoosh-past by Alberto Tomba...
...short speech, the Republican-managed House ruled her out of order and voted to strike her remarks from the record. The parliamentary scrap immediately brought a phalanx of the people's Representatives to the floor to scream at one another, with Republicans denouncing the speech for lack of decorum and Democrats blasting the g.o.p.'s "totalitarianism." Later, in a bare-knuckles address at a Republican gathering, Gingrich personally took up the fight, calling the attacks on his book deal "disgusting" and taking broad swipes at Democrats, the press and-perhaps reflexively-Hillary Rodham Clinton...