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What I said was that"...given the milieu the author selected there is ample justification to use a slang...of which obscenities form an important part. The world he presents is an underworld, a subculture alienated from and contemptuous of the norms, values and standards of society at large. People who belong to it...are engaged in flaunting these standards which can be achieved most easily and symbolically by the use of words generally tabooed...
More Than Declarations. To cure such ills, economists believe, Britain must change the very milieu in which its economy operates, acquiring in the process a thirst for efficiency and modernization. The nation that sired the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago needs a new revolution. It can be nothing less than the sort of upheaval that Jean Monnet wrought in France, when in the mid-'50s he was able to shake his nation out of its sloppy practices. The Labor government has made only a beginning: it has offered tax rebates to companies that increase their trade abroad, given...
...Robert Preston) is no American Renaissance man but a Broadway showman in knee britches who treats his inventions-the Franklin stove, the lightning rod, the rocking chair-as enticing props to con the yokels of Louis XVI's court. The court is ostensibly Versailles, but the real milieu is the chandelier-lit ballroom of half a hundred interchangeable musicals in which girls in flowing period gowns go swirling into musical-comedy oblivion...
...three years ago with the stuff in her bra. Balding little Louis Lavalette, chief of the police judiciare for Southern France, has long had a good hunch who was behind the operation: "Monsieur Jean" Cesari, a quick-witted courtly Corsican who, in 20 years of flitting through the Marseille milieu with few visible sources of income, has nonetheless managed to acquire both a 1,000-acre Riviera estate and a handsome $50,000 villa near Aubagne guarded by five fierce police dogs...
Defying the trend on the other networks toward the short and snappy, CBS opened three hourlong dramas. By default, Slattery's People is the best, even if it is a kind of provincial Advise and Consent, taking its milieu-as so many TV shows vulturistically do-from an earlier showbiz success. Slattery, played by Richard Crenna, is a state legislator. The story last week did stir up an at least plausible atmosphere of cameral politics. Slattery turned the chamber into a courtroom, fingering an older senator who had deliberately quashed a bill that jeopardized his personal financial interests...