Possible Clues:

• Record revolutionary coming to a point
• Cart-horse bureaucracy, up to a point?
• Bureaucracy, having shifted communist to the right, came to a point
• Like pool cues
• Narrow head of tree monkey with rosy behind
• Tread designed to accommodate drill narrowing at one end
• Came to the point: red tape requires a new order
• Formality rigid (as you might say!) diminished gradually
• Like the pointed end of a pencil
• Became gradually smaller