Word: milieu
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...describing a milieu as familiar to him as the inside of a movie studio is to most Hollywood directors: a Turkish prison. This is not the glossy torture chamber of Midnight Express-no theatrical sadomasochism here, no melodramatizing of the color scheme, no soft-focus sexual groping-but a place where ordinary men endure the restless boredom of confinement. Five of them are given a week's pass to visit their families, and find that the same restrictions face them and their women on the outside. The country is a prison, every liberating impulse is indictable, and the more...
...those tempted to come and I live on the Côte d'Azur, I give a warning: avoid Nice, for it is the privileged haunt of the most powerful 'criminal milieu' in the south of France." So writes Graham Greene, the British novelist, who has lived at Antibes, only a few miles from Nice, for the past 17 years. But the French will not be able to thrill to Greene's charges in his new nonfiction book entitled J'Accuse: Portrait of a Delinquent in His Protected Milieu. The appellate court...
...sunny French Riviera. He became interested in the subject when the daughter of a close friend got involved in a messy divorce. After the couple separated, the estranged husband, Daniel Guy, a real estate operator in Nice, allegedly threatened his wife by hinting of his connections with the milieu, local argot for the Nice underworld. Greene tells a harrowing tale of purported assaults on Guy's wife and her father, the kidnaping of the couple's child by Guy, and threats, including a heavy hint by Guy that Greene might be in an auto accident if he kept...
...events of ordinary lives. The big difference-even if there is nothing new under the sun-is that what would be garden-variety problems for most people become much harder to handle when they happen to a star. Not only are they painted with the flamboyance of their milieu, but they tend to be leaked-or presented-to the world as though they were public situations instead of private ones. Yet, as their stories make all too clear, the stars pass through the usual torments of childhood into sequences of adult problems-familial, professional, financial, emotional-that would not seem...
...Armageddon aftershock. Bikers have terrorized many a decent citizen in movies over the past three decades. And the sociopathic superman has emerged to defend them in distinguished westerns (John Ford's The Searchers) and easterns (Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo). What Miller has done here is create a milieu as dense and tangy as Tolkien's Middle Earth or Céline's demimonde. This is Australia as the Down Underworld, where character is revealed in the gradations between good and awful. Drawn in vivid cartoon strokes, this menagerie can be funny or heroic or scary...