Word: milieu
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...since 1993. That was when--after dropping out of high school in Pomona, Calif., and learning their craft on music videos--they grabbed Hollywood by the collar with Menace II Society. The film, about black, disenfranchised youth, opened to critical acclaim and big box office. They returned to that milieu in 1995 with the ambitious Dead Presidents, about a black Vietnam soldier returning to a life of crime in the hood. With American Pimp, a controversial 1999 documentary, they took a straight-on view of the gold-medallion and Cadillac...
...These days, she is mostly worried about the future her girls will find in an increasingly religious milieu. "The first thing Islam does is remove women," she says. "Islam and the modern world cannot coexist." She was horrified when her daughters' prestigious private school ordered little Suhaee to cover her head with a white veil every Friday, and when 11-year-old Soonha?whose preferred attire is a T shirt and jeans?was punished for refusing to wear a maroon sash across her chest. "When my daughter wore a dupatta (veil), I saw tears in her eyes," says Attiya...
...divided thematically into two sections-"Social Space" and "Character Studies," each of which occupy one room of the main floor of the ICA. With a few exceptions, both sections include photographs from each of the photographers mentioned above. "Social Space" deals visually with environment. It analyzes the American milieu at any given time, especially in terms of dimension, geometry, orientation and the arrangement of things as they occupy their space. More importantly, it deals with the responses to and negotiations of that atmosphere by the people who live...
...Each vignette has high entertainment value, if not a lot of introspection. One story tells of his "month-long foray into the bewitching milieu of smoking crack cocaine." With a bit of work examining his motivations and feelings he could have built this out to fill the whole book, and made a fascinating read. Instead he keeps it to six admittedly very amusing pages that culminate in a violent battle over who would get to eat some crack residue...
...Yorkin and Lear grew up in such a milieu ? poor but not depressing ? and both reach back to early days for authentic touches to bring their shows home to viewers. Lear's salesman father, though a second-generation Russian Jew, was almost as much of a source for Archie as Alf Garnett was. He used to call Norman "the laziest white kid I ever saw" and order his wife to "stifle" ? both expressions that were to become Archie's. The family shifted restlessly from New Haven, Conn., where Norman was born, to nearby Hartford, then to Boston and New York...