Word: decorums
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...food vanished first. As word spread that the government was drastically raising prices, panicky shoppers snapped up sugar, flour and cooking oil by the crateload, quickly clearing grocery-store shelves. Decorum went next. Chanting "Down with prices!," 5,000 striking steelworkers hurled tin cans and hunks of bread at officials in the southern city of Skopje in the first organized labor protest to hit Yugoslavia since it became a Communist country, in 1945. Cowed officials promptly doubled some wages. In a no less startling outburst, the press and even some Communist leaders intensified calls for the resignation of Prime Minister...
Watching churchmembers go table to table in the dining halls, one could sense a sort of horror. These people had breeched a rule of decorum by bringing religion into the sanctity of the dining room. It is not that religion has disappeared as a topic of conversation at Harvard. But how often is religion discussed in terms of what people actually feel and believe rather than as an abstraction...
Sammy & Rosie is never dull. Indeed, it shrinks from the ordinary as it does from decorum, balance or coherence. Kureishi and Director Stephen Frears, who two years ago collaborated on the low-budget My Beautiful Laundrette, have - no time for the dramatic verities. They're breathless with all the hot news inside them. In his diary that accompanies the film's published screenplay, Kureishi describes Sammy & Rosie as his usual "mixture of realism and surrealism, seriousness and comedy, art and gratuitous sex . . . All the bits and pieces will just have to get along with each other, like people...
...solid back plane and replace it with a mesh support, so that the shapes seemed to hang in the air. The relatively sedate movement of form in Stella's earlier work became an agitated, dense array, and the vividness of color seemed to have gone over the edge of decorum: a demotic yawp of rose, cerise, blue, sulfur-yellow, greens and oranges, scribbled and slathered onto the baroque shapes of French curve and drafter's template, and heightened with jarring patches of colored glitter...
...mention his ex-pupil in his book. But Pacheco was a dry, insipid painter, and Zurbaran's slightly awkward fierceness must have been disturbing to a man whose chief pride lay in being the father-in-law of Velasquez. Zurbaran would not master the sense of secular decorum, the discreet and far-reaching rhetorical power of Velasquez's much greater art. He did not try to, since he was mainly painting for monks, not connoisseurs. He and Velasquez studied together and were born within a year of each other, but their characters as artists were utterly different...