Word: rigueur
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...them tells the old man that his children are what he made them. Smiley began reading commentaries about the play, especially by feminists, and was miffed to find that even the most radical rejected Shakespeare's terrible twosome: "A remark condemning Goneril and Regan was de rigueur...
Like the old Joy, the revised volume is illustrated with alarmingly explicit drawings, though these are newly done. In place of the hirsute hippie male (de rigueur in the '70s) and his female counterpart are an ordinary-looking beardless youth who might pass for a stockbroker and a female partner who could be your lawyer. Gone too is the collection of superfluous erotic Japanese prints depicting contortions of improbable physicality; in their place is a portfolio of "art" photos, which are at least fathomable...
...hearings at all? For more than 100 years, the committee did without them. And even after they began in 1925, there were nominees like William O. Douglas in 1939 who waited patiently to be questioned only to be sent home. But while this public bar exam has become de rigueur, its rules have changed from nomination to nomination, with Republicans and Democrats often contradicting themselves on what questions are appropriate. Some examples of Senators who condemn "litmus tests" at one hearing but brandish them at the next...
...roll, born-and-bred rebel music, languishes when it becomes a commercial tool, part of a marketing package. When Dennis Hopper made Easy Rider and Martin Scorsese made Mean Streets, the use of rock 'n' roll on a movie sound track was practically revolutionary. Now it's de rigueur: the rip-snorting Thelma & Louise, with first-rate tunes by the likes of Toni Childs, Marianne Faithfull and Glenn Frey, released its sound track even before the movie hit the theaters. This is good for the movie and good for business, but it makes rock part of a formula. When great...
...glittering guide to the ornaments that women -- and men -- have been wearing since 3000 B.C., this book is dotted with small gems: for example, because of the improvement of French domestic candles in the 18th century, evening soirees increased, and brilliant-cut, light-reflecting diamond earrings became de rigueur...