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...milieu where students voluntarily subject themselves to judgment and competitive social weeding, it is safe to assume that few would “out” social club leaders to the College and compromise their own punch. Punches want, above all, to curry favor with the leadership of their desired club. Club members want to protect their club-mates and friends from punishment. Knowing that club heads could face the Administrative Board if an intoxicated student is brought to University Health Services serves as a disincentive to seek medical attention, especially if students are drunk enough to underestimate the severity...
...married couple falls out of love--and one spouse gets killed--in each of these dramatized deadpan docufarces, with bad-taste maven John Waters hosting as the "Groom Reaper." The tacky milieu, high emoting and lowlife venality may trick you into thinking you're watching one of those good-bad John Waters movies. Alas, you're just watching John Waters watching a not-so-good TV show. Sorry...
...creation of the “Songs of Innocence and of Experience.” The year is 1792 and the Kellaway family has just arrived in London from the village of Piddletrenthide in southwest England. Having recently buried a son, the Kellaway parents hope that the urban milieu will provide a respite from sorrowful memories and crushing rural poverty for their surviving children, 12-year-old Jem and his 14-year-old sister Maisie.Jem’s father finds steady carpentry work at circus impresario Philip Astley’s amphitheater on the outskirts of London...
...just a nose ahead of former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius's 18.54%. "Now we know that the party membership doesn't deform the will of the party's broader electorate," said party official and National Assembly deputy Bruno Le Roux. "We've become a real party grounded in its milieu." Maybe so. But that's a very different thing from a vanguard leading the workers forward into a new world. A Le Monde reporter captured the change perfectly by quoting a 45-year-old woman voter who blew up when the secretary of her party branch in Paris addressed...
...just guessing that the kids from Bristol felt a little stranded in California. But that feeling is in the movie, which is about the hero's displacement when he's thrown into a strange milieu, and his desperate need to find a sense of community in the new Oz. In Chicken Run, the outsider was a brash American rooster who crash-landed in an English hen house. In Flushed Away, the English hero is dumped into a land where the natives scheme, shout and betray, In a word: Hollywood...