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Urban Adventure A bed-and-breakfast in the city provides quaintness and pampering in a vibrant milieu...
...made Harb a good guy and CaroleAnne an unsympathetic harpy--and anyway, sexual harassment doesn't have the crackle that it had back in the days of, say, Michael Crichton's Disclosure. The pleasure of Bing's novel lies in his masterful, merciless evocation of the executive milieu--the lunches, the banter, the petty slights, the Scotch-soaked male bonding. "Keep in mind, please, that large emotions and reactions are alien to a true corporate workplace environment," Bing urges us. "A great business milieu is like creme brulee, with the tasty custard down below and a fine glazed topping...
...easier to say I couldn't do something than to try it and fail when it was supposedly within my milieu. I had created my own boundaries based on fear of failure. We do it all the time. Sometimes those boundaries are broken down by ourselves, and sometimes they are broken down by a force greater than ourselves. In my case, that force took hold at the corner of De Longpre and Flores. --As told to Barbara Isenberg
Menand’s new home in Cambridge will provide such an intermingled academic milieu...
This review is written by an Asian living in Britain, a point worth mentioning because it may help explain why I found Monica Ali's Brick Lane (Doubleday; 413 pages) as dull as dhal. For those with no personal experience of the book's central milieu - London's Bangladeshi community - it might seem a spicy treat, full of colorful, richly detailed characters and aromatic atmospherics. Indeed most British reviewers have greeted it with effusive praise, many of them endorsing Granta's selection of Ali as one of Britain's 20 best young novelists. But if you've grown...