Word: milieu
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...Federated led to bankruptcy for both, or that even his own holding company ousted him from its chairmanship. The movie's makers acknowledge that theirs is a "generous" view of Campeau as an enterprising hometown hero who made fortunes for others before falling victim to a nefarious "Wall Street milieu...
...Visconti just an Elmer Gantry of the New Age? She says no. "This technology came out of the New Age milieu," she says, "and many found this to be interesting and entertaining." She adds, firmly, however, "I found it wasn't just 'interesting...
...that could have been a death warrant. The boys in the neighborhood must wonder if they have any choice but dying poor from drugs or dying rich selling them. Lame as moviemaking craft, the picture is nonetheless a harrowing document true to the director's south-central Los Angeles milieu; he paints it black. Boyz N the Hood functions both as a condemnation of the world outside any big-city movie house and as an inspiration to those aspiring outsiders who would change history by filming...
...live in an established inner suburb of New York City. The patriarch, John Scanlan, is a lively if familiar fictional figure, a power-driven old sinner who started making Communion hosts at 21 and who now has vestment factories in Manila and construction companies closer to home. The Scanlans' milieu has much in common with the author's childhood as depicted in her columns: nuns, summers at the beach and minute, competitive skirmishes among preadolescent girls. Quindlen also relishes skewering pirates like John; to him the Kennedys are merely "second-rate Scanlans with too much hair...
...this semester, Range's career has led him to a slightly less exotic milieu--Harvard's Institute of Politics (IOP), where he is one of six visiting fellows...