Word: milieu
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...film runs deep: thirty years ago they caused a small revolution, and today, the directors of the Nouvelle Vague look back with admiration at Zero de Conduite and L'Atalante, for they anticipate (and in many ways supersede) modern French attempts to create a vivid sense of milieu on the screen...
Those readers who insist upon filing contemporary writers to the pigeonhole of a convenient tradition will have no difficulty in detecting the intellectual habits of the school of Donne in such poems as "The Value of Gold." To expand categories slightly, Mr. Gunn's whole milieu resembles that early-seventeenth-century world of religious nightmare, alchemical daydream, and academic short-circuit, in which an inherited logic grinned at itself and morbidity became bumptious. In one of the 1954 poems, "A Mirror for Poets," Mr. Gunn described that age, so obviously like our own as to make the comparison banal...
Like the play, the picture does not rigorously develop a plot. It establishes a milieu, a geography of moral failure, an ultimate, absolute flophouse. And in this flophouse it engenders characters as straw breeds lice: a smalltime crook, a sentimental whore, a police spy who regularly gets beaten by his wife, an alcoholic actor, a slugnutty wrestler, a landlord and landlady like two scorpions in a bottle, and watching them all a funny little old man who laughs and laughs and shakes his head and says, "Oh, the way people live...
...book is very largely made up of conversations among a group of soldiers it follows from an Indo-Chinese prison camp, to a leave in Metropolitan France, and finally to action in Algeria. These conversations sound totally abstracted from reality, because the milieu to which they refer -- and which gives them meaning -- is not described in the novel. Larteguy neither describes the military frustrations of the Army, nor evokes the corrosive feeling of futility which has eaten away its pride and sense. All this -- like feeling for the historical significance the Army's plight -- is assumed in the reader...
With the show-biz-sporting crowd that collects there. Gleason stands around at the bar, communicating in the limited vocabulary of the milieu: "Pal," "Bum," "Tomato." and "Har-de-har-har." Jackie compares Shor's to "the corner candy store when you were a kid, except instead of Jujubes you've got the booze." The famous story is true that Gleason and the 240-lb. Shor once raced each other around the block, running in opposite directions. Gleason was standing coolly at the bar when Shor puffed in. Gleason had used a cab. but Shor, whose giant brain...