Word: milieu
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...without whom the cultural life of France in the 19th century cannot be understood; and no writer has done a better job of placing this tetchy, formidable genius, with his astonishing powers of observation iand his bitter tongue ("Whistler, you behave as though you have no talent"), within the milieu of his time. Dunlop writes with warm understanding of Degas's paintings, discussing them without jargon; and his plain, elegantly turned prose does much to catch the "mysterious and fugitive beauty to many of his pictures which is apt to disappear under the scholarly microscope...
...suggested government-sponsored sports programs and concerts with audience dancing as partial solutions to the "repressive milieu" in Massachusetts...
Luna's images are so hypnotic, erotic and beautifully shot (by Vittorio Storaro) that we enter the movie's unpleasant milieu easily and remain captivated throughout. While the film is full of golden Parma landscapes, the dominant visual fixture is the moon: it is the film's metaphor for characters whose mysterious dark sides only gradually reveal themselves. In Bertolucci's brilliant climax, set at an open-air opera rehearsal, his artis tic conceits all converge. As the camera constantly shifts its point of view, we see that Luna 's events form a different drama...
...with preoccupied actresses; but Paris' routine is as hollow as Philip Marlowe's: the dismal bedsitter, the bottle of whisky, the nagging creditors. What distinguishes his adventures, of which A Comedian Dies is the fifth, is the author's wry observations of Britain's entertainment milieu. Brett has a farceur's eye for crooked agents and egomaniac stars, for performers elbowing their way up or trying to take the slide back down gracefully, for network nitwits, for creative geniuses unsung by anyone but themselves...
...technicians," they want to return to traditional services, such as counseling, educating and comforting. In their view, hospitals are too bureaucratic to allow true nursing. Says Nurse Annette Swackhamer of New York City: "Doctors have the misconception that nursing is physical care." In fact, she says, the frenetic hospital milieu does not let nurses listen to a patient much or involve the family...