Word: decorums
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...compassionate eye for the frets and frustrations of middlebrow, middle-class urban America. His first film script is a similarly gentle, knowing throwaway. Director McCarty is careful to make no big deal of it, and his quartet of players is attractively fumble-thumbed in their efforts to have their decorum and shed it too. I Could Never may be the least important - certainly the least pretentious - movie of the year. But it is far from the least amusing...
...people" from participation as that Hamilton had a pessimistic estimate of the people's ability to distinguish between good and evil within the context of a rapidly developing industrial society. Hamilton's disciplined aristocracy should at least have ruled with a sense of tradition, proportion and decorum...
...Nixon appointee who contributed $29,000 to Republicans last year, De Roulet, 47, was no stickler for diplomatic decorum. He liked to vent his conservative views in pithy asides, and several times was overheard referring to islanders as niggers. "He loved dogs more than humans," a Jamaican official said, recalling that for the return of one of his lost pets (a mongrel dog) the ambassador once offered $500, which is more than many Jamaicans earn in a year. De Roulet rattled Jamaicans even more by telling a Rotary Club lunch gathering that the visa section of his embassy...
...outset, John Morris's harp chords and sustained flute convey an ominous mood appropriate for the 16th-century Vienna where "quite athwart goes all decorum." Michael Kahn has added a brief prologue that introduces us to some of the unsavory people in the city--including a blind beggar, a pickpocket, a legless cripple. There is no point in trying to avoid the play's prevailingly rancid taste. Kahn has abridged the text a little, so that the show has a running-time of two and a half hours...
Murdoch love stories are like wild minuets: all decorum on the surface, barbaric ecstasies underneath. The magical music starts, and partners, to their own amazement, find themselves in one another's entranced arms. Just as suddenly the music stops, the trance is over. Then, just as suddenly, there are second partners all round. Before Bradley's pen can reach paper, he falls in love with Arnold's wife and, immediately after, with Arnold's 19-year-old daughter Julian...