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...decorum of Wednesday's festivities was, if anything, a veneer. Yes, Reagan supporters slipped quietly in and out of the crowd without jeering, and yes. Democrats refrained from calling Reagan's Christianity into question. Yet those very same Republicans proudly sported signs with grotesque illustrations of fetuses and slogans depicting Ferraro as a bad Catholic, while their so-called issues-oriented counterparts joined in choruses of "Ronald Reagan, he's no good, send him back to Hollywood" and waved signs imploring their cohorts to "Break Ronald Reagan's Arms" in a tasteless pun on his defense policy...
...that a Council committee was "too tied up in procedures" when discussing the Pi Eta Speakers Club newsletter. The reporter fails to point out that at a Council meeting the night before that committee meeting those same procedures, which tend to safeguard the rights of the minority, and the decorum observed in Council meetings, had permitted many of those "community members" to question in public the president of the Pi Eta regarding his actions and attitudes, and those of his club T as a fair hearing and a reasonable outcome are assured...
...Taste, decorum and an attitudinizing kind of augustness creep in to replace the former intensity, with the unforeseen result that Balthus seems more given to pastiche now than he was 40 years ago. In a painting like Japanese Figure with a Black Mirror, 1967-76, the way he quotes the artificial perspective of Edo prints looks almost complacent, despite the wit ty sense of sexual packaging conveyed by the white obi round the girl's naked waist...
...Lotto's The Annunciation on its own is a joy. It is one of the strangest lyrical effusions of the High Renaissance, a painting that almost (but not quite) ruptures its own decorum in the interests of poetry: the Virgin, momentarily out of her wits, cringes before the prospect of divine insemination, while God makes ready to descend from the sky like a high diver; the ethereal angel, pale blue and ivory, gestures threateningly; a tabby cat arches its back in terror, as well it might...
Such a description befits McGee's relationship with the 160-member House. According to the established written Rules of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the Speaker "shall preserve decorum and order; may speak to points of order in preference to other members; and shall decide all questions of order subject to an appeal to the House." But as party leader of the overwhelming Democratic majority. McGee also enjoys the all-important power to appoint every committee chairman and to fill every leadership position. That in turn means control over salaries: the base pay for a representative is a yearly...