Word: milieu
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Allen's sharpest film in a decade (granted, a pretty weak decade) amasses all the fixings of a sexy thriller: a sly young man on the make, a femme fatale worth killing for, an inconvenient pregnancy, a secret diary. By relocating his milieu to England, Allen has an ideal setting for class animosity and intrigue in the lightly lethal spirit of Kind Hearts and Coronets. There's sultry chemistry between the leads: Rhys-Meyers, who has the pouty sensuality of a Jude Law left out to spoil, and Johansson, with the humid allure of a classic noir blond. When they...
...author flies from his home in Seattle back to visit his folks, various objects or sensations - an orange backpack or the smell of fast food - trigger flashbacks. These mostly center on the terror of living with an alcoholic, abusive father and a beaten mother. White masterfully evokes the milieu of the early 70s and hardscrabble folks that got married too young and gave up too much too soon. Fights would get bad enough that Shane spends stretches at a time with his grandmother, who takes him with her to the bar where she works. While she flirts with customers, making...
Shoppers often enjoy a museum store's ambience. However crowded the gift shopgets, it suggests an artistic milieu impossible to find in, say, a K mart. Says Cindy Marano, a Washington resident who was visiting Chicago's Art Institute last week: "Museum shops are a wonderful place to buy presents. At malls everything seems the same and impersonal...
Within this milieu of women's refuges, fortnightly pensions, brutality and exasperation, Sayer manages not only to survive but to grow. The other side of drifting is freedom and a spirit of adventure. She attends a "free school" in Melbourne where the subjects include creative writing, Indian studies and weaving. The people she meets there draw her out of herself and into the world with speed and direction. Velocity is intoxicating - but don't even think of matching the drinking in it. And heed the advice of a dying man, who advises Sayer to "never mix morphine with metho...
...it’s most important for the top executives on the UC to share a positive working relationship and an at least somewhat unified vision for the Council. There should be a creative tension between the UC President and Vice President, but that tension must exist within a milieu of mutual respect and a common set of priorities. Single-ticket voting will ensure that the President and the VP are ready to work together from the beginning...