| 单词 | milieu |
| 例句 | “Finally, adoption agencies routinely send staff members to evaluate the child’s milieu, and no reasonable agency is going to send an agent to Afghanistan.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The project returned him to the milieu of small science he had left behind after his first few handmade cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I made sure to know where she was going, who’d likely be there, the particular milieu, whether dancing or a sauna might be involved, those kinds of angles. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole milieu was a portrait of affluence and ease, a less-than-subtle reminder of the payoff that came when you committed yourself wholeheartedly to the grind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer recognized that their social milieus were fated to remain distinct. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In real life I am moderately brave, but plenty of brave people shed their courage in POW camps, and maybe something similar goes on in the infinitely more congenial milieu of the low-wage American workplace. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Tchaikovsky wasn’t the first heavyweight Russian composer who wrote in the mainstream international idiom, the same milieu as Beethoven, Berlioz, Verdi or Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She said we couldn’t possibly understand what their social milieu was, before the Portuguese came. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, the environment or the milieu that surrounds an organism contributes to its physical attributes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Another thing that awed me was their almost total lack of information outside their milieu. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the modern music in which convergence is most active has thrived in a relatively prosperous, educated milieu, dominated by the United States and Europe, where something approaching a cultural consensus exists. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Multi-part performance in either the vocal or instrumental milieu is cognitively beneficial, and will increase a child’s musical competence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The film’s emotional core is Acosta’s complex relationship with his late father who - unusually given his macho, humble milieu - sent him to ballet school to keep him out of trouble. Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta stars in own biopic 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z She achieved success despite the hurdles she faced as a woman in a largely male milieu. Idelle Weber, Who Stretched the Meaning of Pop Art, Dies at 88 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Smith had seen pictures of the wallpaper and found it impossibly glamorous, though perhaps its milieu deepened its allure. Possessed: Michael Smith, A Man and His Wallpaper 2013-04-19T20:05:10Z Such is the difficulty of slotting this outsider’s outsider, who has had virtually no exhibition history, into an artistic milieu. Unearthing Rick Barton, a Boho Bard of North Beach 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z She has a sweet and powerful voice that still manages to sound tentative; sadness and tragedy are her milieus. Music Review: Bluegrass Archetypes, With Gentle Voices of Ardor and Melancholy 2011-08-04T00:21:11Z The characters are gratifyingly individual, but they are also recognizable 21st-century urban types, inhabiting a milieu that is hardly exotic to casual browsers in the meadows of independent cinema and off-network television comedy. Review: In ‘Nasty Baby,’ Friends Decide to Start a Family. What Could Go Wrong? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The social milieu of his movies — an enlightening and enlivening retrospective of them has been part of this year’s LatinBeat series at the Film Society — is certainly familiar. Movie Review: In ‘Viola,’ Shakespeare Is Lens to Look at Young Argentines 2013-07-11T21:39:22Z We knew in order for that love to be really revolutionary, we needed to place her in a milieu that was breakable in some way. Tilda Swinton, rock star of the art house 2010-06-19T18:01:00Z Who is the Poet that enters this milieu from elsewhere? Dance Review: From the Classical World of Apollos and Fauns to a Romantic Passion 2011-05-19T21:29:13Z I entered a milieu where sex was appreciated, sought after and openly and proudly discussed in great detail. Women and desire: the six ages of sex 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z The narrowness of their milieu — yes, Brooklyn, again — makes “Obvious Child” feel both claustrophobic and accurate. Jenny Slate Considers Abortion in ‘Obvious Child’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Occasionally, bright colors pop from a subdued milieu, as in a picture of watermen’s buckets and gloves, their plastic hues incongruously hot on a chilly gray day. Review | In the galleries: Artists talk through their hats 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z She was to these milieus what Donna Tartt must have been to Bennington. Patricia Highsmith Lived Extravagantly, and Took Copious Notes 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z And despite the literary milieu, it avoids being one of those films, like Midnight in Paris, where actors in the guise of famous writers are paraded across the screen. A Review of 'Violette': Why Isn't Emmanuelle Devos Better Known in the U.S.? 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z But it can’t totally erase the distinctions between their social milieus. Degas and Cassatt, Paired at the National Gallery 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Even before the pandemic, the elegant theater milieu in which he thrived had all but dried up and blown away. Always Leave Them Smiling: The Art of Al Hirschfeld 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Flouting the proprieties that stifled individuality, he introduced into decorous milieus what was inadmissible — the naked body — and used humor to punch holes in the American dream of the late-20th century. Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z That feeling is intensified by Mr. Walsh’s choice to ground the production in a specific, domestic milieu: a fully realized London apartment, complete with bunk beds and period furnishings. Will ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Take Flight on the Stage? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The half-hour “Locator” takes place entirely in daylight, in middle-class milieus scattered across the Sun Belt, and shares its DNA with daytime self-help talk shows. Television: ?Runaway Squad? and ?The Locator? Make Hiding Hard 2010-04-02T22:40:00Z “Frecknall pulls us into a hedonistic milieu, only to send us out nearly three hours later reminded of life’s horrors,” he added. ‘Cabaret,’ Starring Eddie Redmayne, Sweeps Olivier Awards 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Black sites, Washington corridors, tense SUV rides through dangerous city streets in Pakistan, operation rooms containing corkboards packed with names and faces … this could be a regular new milieu for flawed, maverick, attractive young investigators. Zero Dark Thirty – review 2013-01-24T21:01:01Z For Pinckney, this image has also “obscured the historical truth” of his milieu. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It feels like a missed opportunity to crack open a hothouse milieu, one that’s meant a great deal to American culture high and low. Review: Robert Christgau Reflects on His Career as a Rock Critic 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Brooks films the action in sharply defined images with spare and aggressive angles, conjuring the inner howls of conflicting desires tearing Steve and the sordidly glossy milieu apart during even the simplest of events. Richard Brooks’s “Fever Pitch” Never Got Its Due 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Maybury infiltrates the young British artists of the moment into the 1960s milieu of Bacon's cronies, some of whom perform stagger-on parts as themselves. Love Is the Devil: the view from the art world 2012-11-09T09:00:00Z The film scrutinizes this affluent milieu with a nonjudgmental attitude that makes its impact all the more devastating. Movie Review: ‘What Richard Did,’ With Jack Reynor 2013-05-10T00:23:11Z The early 1950s milieu is as lush as the cashmere sweaters her anxious teen heroes wear. Are you there, world? It's Judy Blume, with 'In the Unlikely Event' 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z But the milieu that makes the SLA and the Hearst kidnapping seem like a mythical or fictional phenomenon goes beyond childhood memories. Patty Hearst’s America: What “American Heiress” gets wrong (and right) about an insane time and place 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But “Bellow,” deeply researched and written with grace and brio, is rich with feeling for its subject and his varied milieus, exactly what’s missing from Leader’s overstuffed, undisciplined book. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Calling it a depiction of a social milieu, they ask, “Had ‘David Golder’ been written in 2009 by Bernard Madoff’s daughter, who would dream of accusing her of anti-Semitic views?” Ir?ne N?mirovsky: New Biography and Short Stories 2010-04-25T23:32:00Z Pozzi is the main character, but only intermittently, for Barnes’s achievement is to retrace the crossing and recrossing paths of dozens of individuals in a milieu that was once ostentatiously up-to-date. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z In this piece, we know virtually nothing of the context of the titular band or the milieu from which they emerged. Review: Too much noise, not enough truth in Whoopi Goldberg's musical 2011-04-10T18:02:10Z Each novel set up a dialogue with its predecessor, technically and formally as well as with regard to character and social milieu. Chinua Achebe obituary 2013-03-22T13:56:09Z While she dwells extensively on the milieu of the harem, she spends little time explaining what led Jahangir to elevate Nur above his other wives. Mughal Men Ruled South Asia — and One Man Was Ruled by a Woman 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z In a sense his “February House,” a recent musical-theater work concerning a Brooklyn home shared by Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee, posits a prehistory for his milieu. Music Review: Gabriel Kahane at Zankel Hall 2012-10-28T21:31:37Z But hopefully from the same directors, as their handle on this milieu feels refreshing and new. John Wick review – a thrill ride driven by a relentless vengeance machine 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The milieu of “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” is new for Moshfegh. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Painful, Funny Novel of a Young Woman’s Chemical Hibernation 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z When he converted to Catholicism and they moved in with his mother-in-law on the west side of town, his social milieu shifted. In Vermeer’s Hometown, Seeking Clues to His Interior Life 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s an alluring milieu — charming, civilized and perfectly, if a shade too flawlessly, arranged. Review: A Boy’s Own Desire in ‘Call Me by Your Name’ 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Sido was the daughter of a mulatto merchant from Martinique and a French woman from Versailles, and had grown up in a bourgeois but politically liberal milieu in Brussels. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z But this book is best remembered for flashes of startling beauty, despite a racetrack milieu of “la crème da la crud.” Books of The Times: Some Time at the Races, With Luck and Change 2010-12-01T22:57:00Z The film’s episodes of violence erupt into a milieu defined by elegant dinners and vigorous verbal fencing matches, a world that keeps going in the aftermath of mayhem, its essential sang-froid undisturbed. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “The private collecting milieu in Jakarta is very well developed, but more often than not the focus is on Indonesian contemporary art,” said Melissa Chiu, director of the Hirshhorn. Indonesia’s First International Modern Art Museum to Open in 2017 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z “I grew up in a milieu where I learned about what prison does,” he said. For the French Author Édouard Louis, His Books Are His Weapon 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z On Nov. 15, the museum will place it on long-term view amid other works by the Wiener Werkstätte circle and hold a symposium about its design and construction and the Viennese milieu. Not All Medieval Sacred Art Was Anti-Semitic 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “I just wanted to go to a concert in Brooklyn, because I’d heard that Brooklyn was so white-hot with all this artistic milieu,” he said, reached by telephone in the orchestra’s offices, in Dumbo. Brooklyn Philharmonic Lands Alan Pierson as Artistic Director 2011-10-01T04:00:06Z It fits into this universe’s milieu with ease and style, while exploring new emotional and narrative terrain. ‘Rogue One’ Reviews: Here’s What the Critics Say 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Schatzberg, himself a former fashion photographer, fills the movie with sharp details of the milieu, and the script, by Carole Eastman, balances boulders of pain on eggshells of identity. Early Meryl Streep and Peak Alan Alda in “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z On a tour as a presidential candidate in 1980, Ronald Reagan compared it to London during the Blitz, and archive footage woven into the show affords a glimpse of this bleak milieu. All beat, no heart 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Inside, as the characters and the camera creep through the eerie, diffused light, Kusama establishes an unsettling milieu that a sly-looking Bell eases into as if born to it. ‘Destroyer’ Review: A Very Good Nicole Kidman Plays a Very Bad Woman 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z He sees as a herald of Calder’s milieu, for example, Henry James’s 1875 novel “Roderick Hudson,” about an American sculptor in Rome. The magical movement of Calder’s mobiles — and mind 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z “It was Nolan’s real vision of not just the clothes, but of the surroundings and milieu that were so important for Aaron,” said Douglas S. Cramer, the executive producer of “Dynasty.” Nolan Miller, Designer of ‘Dynasty’ Looks, Dies at 79 2012-06-08T05:27:35Z But unlike some other dramas arising from the same milieu — “Angels in America,” “The Baltimore Waltz,” “The Normal Heart,” to name three — “Marvin’s Room” may suffer from such perfection. Review: In ‘Marvin’s Room,’ Who Will Care for the Caregiver? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Second, the way Toulouse-Lautrec depicts his chosen milieu is modernist. Toulouse-Lautrec and the real story of the Moulin Rouge 2011-08-17T11:28:54Z Her brother and his wife had made a life ensconced in the heady, liberal milieu surrounding the University of Michigan, and Converse chose Ann Arbor as a place to start over. Connie Converse’s Time Has Come 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z “Girlhood” is fascinating for the mere fact of its depiction of a milieu that is all too easily reduced to a stereotypical series of cinematic emblems. “Timbuktu” and “Girlhood” 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z The tools required to work plywood were common and readily at hand; the skill required to manipulate them was relatively undemanding; carpentry was another “ordinary” everyday skill in the urban late industrial milieu. Odd Man in: The Sculptor Robert Morris, at 86, Is Still Blazing Trails 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z A few years ago Shabaka Hutchings, a rising British tenor saxophonist, discovered a milieu of kindred spirits on South Africa’s vibrant jazz scene. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The opener establishes the claustrophobic milieu as well as the open, visceral intimacy between Robert and Katano, admiration radiating off the student’s face as the teacher blows cigarette smoke out the window. ‘Funny Pages’ Review: Ordinary Life, Complex Stuff 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z It was the same milieu that produced William Eggleston, the wayward genius of modern American photography, whose famous blood-red ceiling graced the cover of the Radio City album. Alex Chilton: rock's forgotten boy 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z With its medieval milieu, it looked a lot like Game of Thrones, but there weren’t any dragons. The Bastard Executioner: why FX's period drama got the chop 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It was a tremendous amount of effort to get the movie to look that specific to the time period and milieu. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of milieu that was often recorded, if not inhabited, by the artists the Whitney collects. Don’t be aloof 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z "Dragon Age II" is somewhat of a creative gamble for BioWare; shifting the typically sprawling role-playing genre into a relatively confined urban milieu is bound to leave some fans grumbling. Review: 'Dragon Age II' creates a new urban legend 2011-03-09T11:35:10Z She wore harem pants, he bluejeans, and both — in a milieu where women almost invariably wear spectacular heels — were in sneakers. Tango Stars Perform at Dardo Galletto Studios 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z There are a lot of issues swimming around in “Moon Knight,” including its treatment of ancient Egyptian culture, its presentation of its Middle Eastern milieu and its depiction of its hero’s mental health issues. ‘Moon Knight’ Review: Raiders of the Lost Identity 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z And indeed, Norman Scott’s grimily claustrophobic set, with its grubby Charlotte Perkins Gilman wallpaper, is a distinctively masculine milieu, untouched by a female hand for many years. An exemplary 'Homecoming' at Pacific Resident Theatre 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The winningly esoteric nature of the concise list matches the food and the milieu. 10 Manhattan Restaurants With Affordable Wines 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Love and death fuel many an opera, but “La Bohème” was one of the first set in an iconoclastic urban milieu. ‘La Bohème’: Puccini’s bohemians live on, in opera and in life 2013-02-14T23:41:36Z But the work’s more general milieu is urban black America, indicated by audio clips from the 1991 film “Boyz N the Hood.” Dance Review: Kyle Abraham’s ‘Pavement,’ at Harlem Stage Gatehouse 2012-11-05T22:53:34Z There are a few surface similarities: middle-class milieu, protagonists who are the “popular kids,” and more. ‘Alex Strangelove’: Boy Meets Boy. Awkwardness Ensues. 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The setting and the milieu inspire Becker to out-Renoir Renoir, or, rather, to make a film that borrows more liberally from Renoir’s father, the painter, than Renoir himself could do. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Marshall fails to fully set the milieu of midcentury American poetry. ‘Elizabeth Bishop’ Details a Poet’s Life. An Author’s, Too. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z It’s known for launching new plays set in those ethnic milieus and for bringing Asian American perspectives to shows from the standard repertory. Asian theater leader Tim Dang to step down at East West Players 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z She fluently sets the western milieu, with its swirling dust and thundering cattle, and catches the boisterous camaraderie of the ranch hands, the playfulness of their jostling with its easy, unselfconscious physicality and intimacy. ‘The Power of the Dog’ Review: Wild Hearts on a Closed Frontier 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z There, both Emily and Davies are at their freest and boldest; there, both filmmaker and subject rebel most conspicuously against the mores of their time and milieu. Terence Davies’s Truthful Fictions About Emily Dickinson 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Even in this milieu the couple are viewed as overeager arrivistes who are the last ones invited to a birthday bash. | 'The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C.': Capital Purring and Preying on Bravo 2010-08-04T17:09:00Z It didn’t bother her, she said, that the show never acknowledged that Bonnie was the only prominent person of color in the series’ otherwise monochromatic Northern California milieu. Sooner or Later, Zoë Kravitz Was Going to Be a Star 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Wanderlust is her ideal milieu, assuming she doesn’t want to do anything more than look good. Wanderlust: Nudists and Jennifer Aniston, Though Not in That Order 2012-02-24T15:45:56Z This show seems to get the Le Carre milieu. ‘The Night Manager’ Premiere: Do You Have to Love le Carré to Like This Show? 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Part of his ambition in placing Marx within his 19th-century milieu is to allow us to understand a man in his times, but also distance him from present controversies about globalisation and capitalism. Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review 2013-06-26T07:00:04Z Taking the seemingly brilliant milieu of the Viennese court in the 1880s, it shows the hypocrisies beneath the polished facade. After Flood, Houston Ballet Returns With a Romantic Masterpiece 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Did he capture this girl’s humanity, her defiance of the ugly and exploitative milieu into which she was thrust? Review: ‘Degas’ Little Dancer,’ at National Gallery If Lohan swings into the Las Vegas orbit -- a dangerous milieu given her addictions -- she reportedly expects a cool million. Lindsay Lohan faces grim career options 2010-08-18T07:49:00Z The uneasy accommodations of a corruptible young aesthete to an ambiguous social world might have resonances too with the turn-of-the-century novels of Henry James, with their moneyed but morally seedy milieux. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z Still, a potential concern for Arab authors writing for an American audience is how to portray Arab patriarchy within a Western milieu of Islamophobic and anti-Arab stereotypes. Review | In Etaf Rum’s ‘A Woman Is No Man,’ the prison of domesticity is hard to escape 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z That such a milieu is hardly original is part of Mr. Iveson’s point. ‘Sorry Robot,’ a Musical Sci-Fi Noir at New Ohio Theater 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the lyrics run the gamut of teen dilemmas from girl problems to haters and trainers, only the milieu, the general ambience, is lighter than Skins or Kidulthood. New band of the day ? No 890: Rizzle Kicks 2010-10-19T16:07:00Z Ms. Suzuki doesn’t dwell on the dark side of this milieu in her catalog essay, but she says enough to evoke the shadows. Toulouse-Lautrec’s Groundbreaking Prints at MoMA 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z At the other end of the scale, the Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 – composed in 1944, during World War II – uses the mighty power of the full orchestra to re-create the propulsive energy of its milieu. A high-wattage evening: violinist Hilary Hahn with Seattle Symphony 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The military social sphere, both in-person and online, is an occasionally awkward but largely peaceable milieu, the climate of which might best be described as strenuously neutral. Don’t speak for my military family: A veteran’s wife on Colin Kaepernick and the Nike boycott 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Thus the grim milieu is graced with something gentler, more playful. Review | Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Mark Howland's lighting dramatically reflects the moral milieu, getting murkier as events unfold. Measure for Measure ? review 2010-11-22T21:30:00Z The remake runs twenty minutes longer than the original—twenty minutes that detail Priest’s audacious maneuverings and their grim effects in milieux left unexplored by the earlier film. “Superfly,” Reviewed: A Classic Remade for a Gun-Mad Age 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Darragh, so excellent as Tom in the Roundabout Theater Company’s revelatory revival of “The Glass Menagerie,” nails both the character’s Brooklyn accent and his growing sense of dislocation in his boisterous new milieu. Theater Review: ‘The Jammer’ by Rolin Jones at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-01-23T23:19:07Z I was thrilled to be there, trying to hold my own in a very accomplished milieu, while Les was one of the stars. Les Plesko to be celebrated at UCLA 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, smaller, more experimentally minded opera outfits have been using the uncertainty of the crisis as the milieu for new work, and hacking the corporate contours of Zoom into a postmodern proscenium of sorts. Perspective | Covid-era opera is getting more intimate, accessible and experimental 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z That Price’s own voice was perhaps a little timid, given the milieu and her place in it, is certainly understandable. Review | BSO’s Hersh leads players in a confident ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Paris is presented as a multilayered milieu, with plenty of bars, flappers, international visitors, Bright Young Things and frivolity. Dance Review: ‘Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises,’ by the Washington Ballet 2013-05-12T22:15:22Z Yet Mr. Morales bristled at such a comparison, noting that much of the frenzied activity around Art Basel was organized by those who parachute into town without any connection to Miami’s homegrown art milieu. Pérez Art Museum Miami Recalls Pink Islands 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z And he belongs to the same liberal, diverse, woke milieu as the show’s characters. Brooklyn’s Favorite Pot Dealer Returns 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z There are endless rabbit holes to fall down, myriad subcultures to peek in on, countless around-the-way superstars who have finally found their dream milieu. Love Music to Surprise You? Jon Caramanica Recommends TikTok Dives 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z But despite that specificity of time and location — and a milieu of predominantly white, educated people — they have achieved broad resonance, including international adaptations and imitations. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z It shows up to work Wednesday night staggering around without caffeine, halfheartedly plopping its tale this time in the worn-out milieu of the carnival sideshow. ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’: Carny cornballs The music world is a glamorous milieu, much the way the Colorado oil business was the backdrop of “Dynasty.” ‘Jane the Virgin’ Ends a Strong First Season 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The lobby location is a downer — no one wants to dine underneath an escalator — but Mr. Garces’ bright, flavorful food transports you far from the humdrum milieu. Choice Tables: Beyond Cheese Steaks: A Tour of Philadelphia Restaurants 2011-01-21T19:55:00Z He realized the social art that many had merely theorized before him; wherever he was, he turned his milieu into a spectacle, with every routine occurrence qualifying as an action, accruing documentation as it went. Andy Warhol, Superstar 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Archival film is seamlessly layered in to help establish the milieu — Son of Sam, “Ford to City,” empty blocks in the Bronx, graffiti-slicked subway cars. ‘The Get Down’ Is ‘West Side Story’ With Rappers and Disco Queens 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Films like this work best when exalting is the task, and when it comes to displaying Mr. Bieber in his milieu — onstage — it shines. Movie Listings for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:07:21Z It affords a glimpse into a rarefied London social and literary milieu. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z But the script by Alan Grossbard, who shows a fond familiarity with, if not great insight into, the racing milieu, has too many half-baked characters and goes soft just when it should get sharp. | 'And They?re Off': ?And They?re Off ,? Horse-Racing Mocumentary - Review 2011-10-30T22:49:25Z It also draws you into a social milieu that is both highly specific and intuitively accessible. ‘The Heiresses’ Review: A Surprising Drama of Status and Sexuality 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Florestan and his court—and we, vicariously—wake up in that milieu of settled power and confidence. Ratmansky’s Beauty Wakes Up 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z An optimistic figure in a flowery frock, Curry’s Lela initially seems at odds with this milieu. Review | Two plays, two vulnerable women in grim circumstances 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z This is the era of Jim Crow and strictly enforced miscegenation laws, a milieu Robinson evokes with small, deft strokes. A Minister’s Troubled Son Takes Center Stage in Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Jack’ 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z It also reflects the milieu of a movie industry embroiled in a battle over release dates and release formats. David Chase might hate HBO Max's "The Many Saints of Newark" — but it’s the wave of the future 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Later he lived in Los Angeles for four decades and worked closely with many Jews; his milieu would never have accepted his antisemitism had it been declared. Christopher Isherwood's Liberation 2012-06-01T21:55:14Z The key perhaps is Mr. Glawogger’s depiction of what are, for most, unfamiliar milieus. A Look Inside the Films of Michael Glawogger 2012-04-13T17:45:00Z Love Ranch has Mirren playing "a wonderfully intriguing character, situated in a milieu in which I don't usually work". Cannes 2010 diary: Mirren becomes a madam and Russell crows about history 2010-05-14T23:40:00Z The milieu includes violent power struggles between labor unions, the developing aesthetics of the Northwest School of artists, and the deprivations and uncertainties of World War II. 'Clara and Merritt:' love and labor unrest in a long-ago Seattle 2010-07-15T20:52:00Z Basically it’s O’Neill without teeth or intensity, diluting the play’s dramatic conflicts and stripping the grit from its sordid milieu as it lurches to an abrupt, love-conquers-all happy ending. Theater Review: ‘New Girl in Town,’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-07-29T22:00:21Z Showalter and his cast lack the style and the nerve to convey either the wildness of the character and her milieu or the pathos of her story. ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Review: Fall From Grace 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z He roomed with Mr. Masekela for a time and became increasingly active in the milieu of A.N.C.-aligned expatriate artists. Jonas Gwangwa, Trombonist and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 83 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Underneath its ghoulish milieu, Penny Dreadful throbs with a big, bruised heart and a baroque web of emotional nuance. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z It was as if during her marriage the pause button was hit, and when it was over she was back in her milieu and being feted for a life well lived.” Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z This time you’ve set a play in a very bland, “Modern Family”-like suburban milieu. | Playwright Thomas Bradshaw on Race, Porn and Suburbia 2014-01-29T23:00:38Z Mr. Strickland’s movie becomes a bit of a vortex at the beginning, though its milieu is too engagingly recreated to dismiss. Movie Review: An Engineer’s Sonic Ordeals in ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ 2013-06-14T00:57:13Z The fact that he was welcomed with open arms by this echelon is telling of that milieu’s ability to overlook almost anything in the name of money and power. Roy Cohn and the Making of a Winner-Take-All America 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Bruce Wagner writes really wonderfully about that whole milieu and its gothic vanity. Emma Cline on the Movie Business 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z I have never really been part of a group, cenacle or even a milieu, or particular trade, or specific sphere, or maybe I didn't realize it. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z The movie is considerably more sentimental than the Camus, which is as arid as its stark milieu and absent a ray of hope. Review: In ‘Far From Men,’ a Teacher Caught in the Crossfire 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z However, the charming series has largely shied from wading into the political and racial realities of the sport of soccer and the cultural milieu in England, a predominantly white country. The contrast between real-life soccer racism and "Ted Lasso" is impossible to ignore 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z “C’est Le Ballet!” the ensemble croons as the show’s 1880s Paris milieu is established in swift strokes. From ‘Ragtime’ to ‘Rocky’ to ‘Dancer’: Flaherty and Ahrens, together 30 years Her milieu is the often overlooked southern New Mexico and West Texas world of frontera families, and the tall tales that flourish there. Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Any sitcom that engages with the current political and cultural milieu practically writes itself. Murphy Brown is coming back to TV: why America needs her more than ever 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Even as downbeat a person as Joyce Carol Oates considered Yates's fictional milieu "a sad, gray, deathly world." Richard Yates and Easter's rising despair 2010-04-01T13:00:00Z As the piece starts, this character is completely a denizen of the “RainForest” milieu, but by the end he seems to be commenting on it and inflamed by it. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z It also looks fantastic, finding a way to make the southern California sun look menacing and the moneyed blue-collar milieu convincing. Animal Kingdom: nihilistic feast of bros, bare butts and bad behavior 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z If there’s a consistency to Payne’s work, it partly stems from that milieu. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z That the people in her particular village were “the most marginalized,” and often those furthest from her own milieu of “incredible social privilege” was what set her apart, Dr. Jacobs said. The Gimlet Eye: A Socialite Who Helped AIDS Patients 2010-08-04T21:17:00Z The familiarity of its milieu, its characters and their hurts and grievances, recall any number of other movies. | 'Fireflies in the Garden': ?Fireflies in the Garden,? With Ryan Reynolds - Review 2011-10-13T23:38:46Z The director’s perceptions are finer and subtler, his sense of milieu truer, his compositions both more precise and more relaxed. The Oscars 2015: For the Birds 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Bloom’s first impulse was to set a musical TV show in the entertainment milieu, like “Empire.” The Great American Musical, Side B, in ‘My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The milieu is fresh; the setup, more familiar. A Roaring, Full-Throttle Thriller, Crackling With Tension and Charm 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z That’s less a reference to the picture’s homogeneous racial and ethnic makeup, which reflects that of the music milieu it seeks to replicate. | ‘Rock of Ages': Review: ‘Rock of Ages,’ a Musical Starring Tom Cruise 2012-06-14T15:54:25Z She said, too, that the language of the adaptation should fit with its milieu. Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen? (The Fans Might Play a Part.) 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z “Gigi” is set in the demimonde of the last fin de siècle, a milieu Colette often revisited, most notably in her masterpiece, “Cheri.” Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z And while the accompanying catalog may not be the monograph the artist deserves, it is the biggest yet and contains a great deal of information about him and his milieu. They Hold Weeds, and an Artist’s Sublime Vision 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z But the director’s comfortable approach to his material and its milieu seems unforced, and yields a frequently enjoyable movie. Review: In ‘Love Beats Rhymes,’ a Hip-Hop Artist Transformed by Poetry 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The entire milieu seemed to insulate him from unpleasantness and controversy. An art loan from Bill Cosby draws the Smithsonian into a national debate I read less philosophy, possibly because I move in a less intellectual milieu than in the past. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z That Ms. Oliveros might find common cause with a courageous, assertive female leader, thriving in a futuristic milieu of instantaneous long-distance travel and telepathic communication, could only strike longtime followers of her work as prescient. The Composer Pauline Oliveros Stays Busy at 80 2012-08-11T22:02:08Z Around the same time, and within the same downtown Manhattan milieu that served as a backdrop for “Desperately Seeking Susan,” a nightclub called the Knitting Factory sprang up on East Houston Street. Weekend Miser: ‘Desperately Seeking the Exit’ Memorializes a Flop 2014-03-20T22:02:59Z And while some patrons regarded the Glyndebourne milieu as elegant, others found it stodgy. George Christie, heir to Glyndebourne opera, dies at 79 Rooney’s people are reflective of their time and milieu — like most convincing characters — and it’s true that some of their qualities will be perplexing to those north of 40. Sally Rooney and Love in the Time of General Systems Collapse 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z There are frequent depictions of battle, sometimes in milieus we haven’t often seen, like the gallant and doomed Polish defense of the Danzig post office. Review: In ‘World on Fire,’ War Is the Virus 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z But that's a minor lapse in a book that elsewhere so successfully rekindles the horror of the King assassination and the milieu in which it happened. Book Review: Rev. Martin Luther King's Assassin 2010-04-29T14:56:00Z While Mamet’s milieu was a seedy real estate operation, King’s is the contrived glamour of beauty products. Review | ‘White Pearl’ is an amusing take on the beauty business. But watch out — things get ugly. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The artist’s milieu — the bohemian fringe-dwellers, drag queens, musicians, writers and filmmakers whom she’s been portraying since leaving home at the age of 14 — is depicted in her Berlin work through affectionate yet gritty snapshots. In Transit: Goldin Pays Tribute to Berlin's Creative Underground 2011-01-23T11:00:02Z Photo: PR Musical set in the drag queen milieu of cult doc Paris Is Burning. This week's new films 2012-07-27T23:05:00Z The record business is a great milieu for intrigue, but music is merely the occasion for drama on this show. Omarion and K. Michelle, on Parallel Tracks, Release Albums 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Men who would bridle at that suggestion are usually men who want to fit into whatever milieu they want to be in. Liberace to Carmen Miranda 2013-06-06T09:58:14Z The faultless ’60s art direction helps to bring the milieu to life, as do Mr. Ejiofor’s and Ms. Newton’s typically stormy performances. Chiwetel Ejiofor Stars in ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Olsen, the director of historical services at Woodlawn, adds that Harkness was not alone in wanting a mausoleum in the same style, and created with the same hands, as his lifetime milieu. The Past and Future of Cemeteries 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Rather, he tries to capture the fathers’ distinct personalities and their social milieu, casting a light that readers might use to illuminate connections for themselves. Colm Toibin on the Fathers of Geniuses 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s a grubby milieu that screams poverty and hardship, yet as always the O’Casey characters are joltingly alive. Abbey Theatre charges through KenCen with ‘The Plough and the Stars’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It’s a revenge story of a vivid energy and a vital ferocity, in which the codes and norms of an indifferent and depraved milieu are turned against it. What to Stream This Weekend: Ten Farewell FilmStruck Films 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z But though Andrea likes the new buildings and the neighborhood, she recognizes that this sort of carefully engineered milieu is an environment that doesn’t exactly feel natural, even to the people who live here. Chicago’s housing experiment 2012-09-01T16:00:00Z Apparent in the 1940s and obvious by the 1970s, the dynamic, growing multicultural milieu of Los Angeles was the undeniable wave of the future. 'Zoot Suit' writer Luis Valdez: How Gordon Davidson changed my life, and American theater, forever 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Andrew R. Cohen’s set, with its gray surfaces and hanging bulbs, accommodates the plotlines’ contrasting milieus and the no man’s land of cyberspace. Review | ‘The Wanderers’ roams with a hungry heart 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The three Passion plays under examination take place in disparate milieus, although Ms. Ruhl’s language freely mixes period syntax with contemporary slang and her own timeless lyricism. | 'Passion Play': Sarah Ruhl?s Play Within a Play at Irondale Center 2010-05-13T03:53:00Z But its scrappy/quirky spirit is very much alive and a welcome addition to the barhopping milieu on the Hill. Cafe Racer reemerges on Capitol Hill, grunge vet hits late-night TV and other music news 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z You sense this at the very top of the show, when you get a scenic milieu disturbingly reminiscent of some Las Vegas version of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Drury Lane gets stuck following 'Aida' into slick, shirtless temptation 2011-03-25T20:19:30Z Coppola’s fondness for cosseted milieus is reinforced by a propensity to sanitize the past. Why Hasn’t Sofia Coppola Gotten the Respect an Auteur Deserves? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Emma is a turmoil of emotions in a milieu where all should be proper and everyone knows everything about everyone else. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z The Philippous’ kinetic style mashes genre cinema with beloved intellectual property, douses the combination with accelerant and lights a match; it’s the product of their personalities as much as YouTube’s milieu. With ‘Talk to Me,’ Directors Leap From Phone Screens to the Big Screen 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z That she’s chosen this milieu to make her mark is apt: nowhere is more welcoming to arrivistes and pretenders of all stripes than the art world. Television Review: ‘Gallery Girls’ Follows the New York Art World on Bravo 2012-08-12T21:35:06Z Far from the madding crowd, within the realm of nature, the hero discovers the otherworldly heroine who satisfies his longing as the women of his own milieu do not. Dance Review: Vail Dance Festival Has an International Evening 2013-08-06T22:05:19Z When “Blues Suite” was new, it was hailed for its social observation, for putting “real people” onstage, characters from the milieu of Ailey’s Southern childhood, then underrepresented. Review: Alvin Ailey, at City Center, Maintains Polished Approach to Familiar Footwork 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The Negotiator Ms. Walicka-Maimone was especially interested in the differences between Donovan’s American milieu and the European setting he finds himself in. The Hats of ‘Bridge of Spies’ 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z As much as I enjoyed the show, directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones, it left me with lingering questions about the depiction of the African milieu it evoked. 2010-01-29T03:33:00Z Man and milieu understand each other here, and they exhale a shared, crusted loneliness and a thick funk of impure thoughts and deeds. Theater Review | 'A Behanding in Spokane': Packing Heat, and a Grudge 2010-03-05T04:55:00Z In this milieu, trompe l'oeil had a social function. "Is It Cake?" feeds viewers visual catharsis for uncertain times 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z “I hate four-inch heels,” she chirps on “Goodbye California,” the song in which she swaps milieus but doesn’t abandon her good mood. Playlist : New Music From SpaceGhostPurrp, Jana Kramer and 2:54 2012-06-22T16:00:00Z The design scheme — clothes of a contemporary style indicating no definitive milieu, a menacing mound of black electrical cords suggesting the stalled war machine — promises a 21st century grappling with this lesser Euripidean drama. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z This complex portrayal, he wrote, traces the poet’s development by paying “scrupulous attention to the milieu that fed it” and the existential dilemmas that both motivated and frustrated it. What’s on TV Monday: ‘America’s Got Talent’ and ‘Ashley Garcia’ 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z In its chugging rhythms, ornate curls and hymnlike chords, Mr. Dargel’s string writing amounted to considerably more than a translation of his customary milieu. Music Review: Fragments of Egyptian Statuary Set Stage for Songs of Fragmentation 2011-01-24T22:37:30Z Mr. Lund, who hails from cowboy stock in Alberta, mines his milieu with a catch in his voice and a keen eye for detail. Playlist: New Music by Rumer, Donald Vega, Keith Jarrett and Corb Lund 2012-08-10T13:59:29Z Sci-fi, on the other hand, is able to create a new consciousness involving the free play of intellect in a self-defining milieu of infinite pliability. Cowboys & Aliens ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:27Z Television’s “Mad Men” returned Morse to the “How to Succeed” milieu of Manhattan office politics, 1960s-style. Robert Morse, two-time Tony-winning actor, dies at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But even in its more familiar mode, when the play merely translates “Richard III” into an unexpected milieu the way “Clueless” does with Jane Austen’s “Emma,” it remains enjoyable. Review: In a Teenage Take on ‘Richard III,’ Now Is the Prom of Our Discontent 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z In the Modern Philology paper, she and a co-author, Elizabeth Picherit, weave together an argument on Austen’s late-in-life health and her social milieu based on her novels, her life and the glasses. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z I suppose this is commentary: in the driver’s milieu, disgrace is binding, whether it’s deserved or not. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z “The Town,” which brought Mr. Renner his second nomination in two years, depicts a similar milieu, but with Boston bank robbers. Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z “Jupiter Orbiting,” the latest work from Pether, exists in a dystopian sci-fi milieu populated by many colorful toys that he examines as if artifacts from a strange, happier world. 12 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z It feels mildly out of place in the slightly sordid milieu of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, but the musical theater lovers basking in the audience are not likely to complain. Theater Review: ?Pipe Dream,? From Rodgers and Hammerstein, at Encores! 2012-03-29T21:28:11Z One was a courtesan, the other a divorcée; both flouted the conventions of their milieux. They were both humbly born, dependent on men, and, one suspects, frustrated artists. A Tribute to Women Who Reinvent Themselves, in Two Wardrobes at the Met 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z “Anything that was sort of ridiculous was in his milieu,” Roz Chast, one of the magazine’s star cartoonists today, said in an interview. James Stevenson, Ex-New Yorker Illustrator, Dies at 87 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z With an all-black crew, he sails to the icy South from a near-future much like our contemporary milieu, fraught with increasingly frequent ecological catastrophes and terrorist attacks. Fantasy set in frozen places: Graham Joyce's 'The Silent Land' and Mat Johnson's 'Pym' 2011-04-27T21:55:05Z The milieu is also conspicuously moneyed, and it’s exemplary of the movie’s class politics that the only true villain is a workingman in a service job. “Booksmart,” Reviewed: Olivia Wilde’s Toothless Teen Comedy 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z They settled on a story about the unlikely engagement of the now-teenage Wednesday to a shockingly normal guy, and the appalled reaction of her fiance's square parents to the creepy Addams milieu. From cartoon frame to 5th Avenue Stage: 'The Addams Family' (snap, snap!) 2012-10-17T21:51:13Z Photograph: HBO This is not after all the gangster milieu as fully formed myth. Empire state of mind 2011-01-20T07:57:00Z A leader now in a milieu where college, if not graduate school, is the rule, he makes self-conscious jokes about that blank on his résumé. Even Billy Eichner Likes This Guy 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z “Mad Men” offers a far more commonplace milieu — the rat race — and finds comedy in the distortions of a rear-view mirror. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z Amazon debuted as a “broadcaster” with Alpha House and Betas, comedies set in the particular milieus of GOP politics and software startups. 2013 TV in Review: The Rise of Craft-Brewed Television 2013-12-10T13:50:07Z Despite the realism of its milieu and the events, this film is highly stylized. Review: ‘Where Is Kyra?’ Portrays a Descent Into Poverty 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z It's obvious that Coppola knows this milieu, what these kids wear and how they speak. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-06-12T20:04:09Z The next step for Eötvös was to take a research trip into the gay New York milieu of Angels. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z Two solo shows explore a similar milieu: the lives of gay men in the 1980s. Theater to Stream: ‘Assassins’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Though some critics found the book polemical, others praised its dreamlike milieu, musical language and ambitious scope. E. M. Broner, Jewish Feminist, Dies at 83 2011-06-23T05:09:08Z Over the next decade, Mr. Gurney seldom strayed far from the milieu that had inspired so much of his early work. A.R. Gurney, Playwright Who Explored Upper-Crust Anxieties, Dies at 86 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z How could I dare think I could be in that milieu or in one of those worlds? Jacqueline Bisset on her latest film and career typecasting: "They would say I was too pretty" 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z And yet much of the dialogue — when it can be heard among the sounds of leather hitting leather — seems to do little more than establish Mr. Neveu’s admirable grasp of this testosterone-drenched milieu. In ‘The Opponent,’ a Boxer and Trainer Square Off 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z In some cases Fragonard’s names reference known people, including important figures within his social milieu. Review | A recently discovered document unlocks the mystery of Fragonard 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Amid the milieu, I embraced old habits quickly, shaking hands with a lawyer who walked up to our table and laughing alongside others as Smith worked the room. Navigating the shifting protocols of a not-quite-post-pandemic world 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z What this book does have — grim scenes in a crack house and behind a 7-Eleven in Newark aside — is an elite, stylized Manhattan milieu. Books of The Times: ?Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man?: a Memoir by Bill Clegg 2010-06-15T23:13:00Z “Equity” itself, however, is bracing, witty and suspenseful, a feminist thriller sharply attuned to the nuances of its chosen milieu. Review: In ‘Equity,’ No Room for Sisterhood Amid Gloves-Off Wall Street Warfare 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z He is a bleeding-heart liberal comfortably ensconced in a fundamentally conservative milieu, a court jester whose proximity to power underscores his impotence, a critical intellect whose aloofness renders him ineffectual. ‘Mank’ Review: A Rosebud by Any Other Name 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z The writers narrate their own letters, usually beginning with a salutation like “Esteemed Mister Editor” or “Honorable Mr. Editor” — vividly summoning a milieu in which newspapermen counted as worthies, or at least passed for them. Books of The Times: ‘A Bintel Brief’ Is Liana Finck’s Graphic Book of Letters 2014-04-22T22:00:27Z At the start of her career, Ms. von Bonin frequently made the social milieu of Cologne into fuel for her art. ‘Cosima von Bonin,’ Swimming Against the Tide 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z A chance meeting in the park with a fedora-wearing fellow opens the door to an alternate universe: a gated community dedicated to recreating the social and cultural milieu of the straitened but structured American 1950s. Critic?s Notebook: Louisville Dreaming: Characters Exploring Boundaries 2011-04-04T21:55:20Z This is the outdoor milieu in which I really thrive, and it seems as if finding your nature, out of all the types of nature there are, is one way to unlock its magic. During a pandemic, the outdoors is the safest place you can be. But what if you hate nature? 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Some call that milieu "underground variety" — a loosely connected web that takes in vaudeville, circus arts, trapeze, cabaret, sideshows, burlesque, alternative music, clowning, juggling and elaborate physical comedy. Variety performers seek solace together after Cafe Racer shooting 2012-06-04T02:00:07Z The milieu is specific to Jewish New York life. Theater review: 'Brooklyn Boy' explores coming home again, but not quite belonging 2010-03-31T21:07:00Z In Toronto, Cotillard’s effortless glamour seems worlds away from the gritty milieu of “Rust and Bone.” ‘Rust and Bone’ brings Marion Cotillard face to face with orcas 2013-01-02T21:46:23Z There is also a fascination with the milieu, in which speculators, owing to tulips’ value at the time, would bid on bulbs, prizing rare varieties and creating a soaring market that ultimately crashed. Review: ‘Tulip Fever’ Delivers a Wilted Period Piece 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The first generation of Black Mask writers — Dashiell Hammett, in particular — had seen men die in battle, or worked as Pinkertons, or knew the rough and criminal milieu they wrote about. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces Mr. Berkson moved easily in this heady milieu, his striking good looks and insatiable appetite for the new affording him instant entree. Bill Berkson, Poet and Art Critic of ’60s Manhattan In-Crowd, Dies at 76 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Although Tom lives in Lakeland now, he often visits Key West, soaking up the island's milieu. Key West: A Writer's Town 2011-04-14T14:50:16.727Z Saddled with too many expat American characters, the show longs to focus on the far more interesting British characters and their social milieu. Review | Send your regrets to Hulu’s ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ (and a sympathy card) 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The books were inspired by Robert Runcie’s milieu, if not his adventures, after the Second World War. The Unholy Pleasures of “Grantchester,” The Original Hot-Priest Show 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Director X has a larger budget and a more expansive milieu to deal with here. Review: ‘Superfly’ Adds Bling to an Old Tale 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z But one British academic has managed to penetrate this elusive milieu. Superyachts and bragging rights: why the super-rich love their ‘floating homes’ 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z But the robust acting and sharp sense of the Bay Area milieu glides us nicely over the film's few soft patches. Cannes 2013: Fruitvale Station – review 2013-05-17T09:53:09Z That's a very clear indication of the kind of prescription that goes on in that kind of milieu. Tilda Swinton, rock star of the art house 2010-06-19T18:01:00Z “We were living our invented lives. In many ways, we were strangers to our families. We reinvented ourselves enough that we had our own world, our own milieu.” His Name Was Blame: A Legend of London Fashion Remembered 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z The obelisk symbolized, for her milieu, abstract geometry. Review: ‘From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola,’ a Bicontinental Couple 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The path from struggle to resolution is so well worn, albeit not often in an immigrant Korean milieu, that there is little chance of surprise or adventure. Review: ‘Kim’s Convenience’ Shares Family Ties, for Better and Worse 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z But while the postindustrial English milieu of “The Last Ship” would seem to place it in an oddly populous genre — “Billy Elliot,” “Kinky Boots,” “The Full Monty” — it studiously avoids specific period references. Sting and Jimmy Nail on the Musical ‘The Last Ship’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z When she moved to New York four years later, she entered a worldlier milieu of artists, writers and musicians. The Changing Face of J. Mae Barizo’s Kitchen 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “Life With Groucho,” published in 1954, captivated readers with its sharp but affectionate portrait of Groucho — who peppered the narrative with kibitzing footnotes — and its shrewd account of the show-business milieu in which he thrived. Arthur Marx, Who Wrote About Groucho, Dies at 89 2011-04-15T01:17:54Z Perhaps she believes quiet is her real milieu. New Music: Albums From Bruce Springsteen and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland 2014-01-13T23:21:05Z That milieu is an English “young offenders’ institution,” roughly the equivalent of a juvenile detention center. Review: Fathers, but Not Yet Men, in the Prison Drama ‘Shook’ 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Palmer simply says his intention wasn't to eulogise the venue, but to illustrate the social milieu that produced it. Tony Palmer's Wigan Casino film comes to DVD 2010-04-15T21:35:00Z If the period and milieu of “The World of Tomorrow” feel familiar, well, that’s because they are. ‘The World of Tomorrow’ captures swirling New York in 1939 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z There’s an echo of Luis Buñuel’s “The Exterminating Angel” in “The African Desperate,” though Palace’s stuckness in her off-putting milieu is less surreal than tragically banal. ‘The African Desperate’ Review: Double Speak 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Still, as upper-class, educated women, Sayers and her friends “were simultaneously insiders and outsiders” in their professional milieus, Moulton writes, arguing that this duality was formative: “I suspect they would have been somewhat boring men.” An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The artists found a generally supportive milieu; but, art historically, the postwar School of Paris languished in the engulfing shadow of the ascendant New York School. 'Kinesthesia' exhibit in Palm Springs spotlights kinetic art in breathtaking new dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z But the bloody, bullying milieu of Howarth’s imagination reveals how difficult it can be to make that leap. Review | Two Australian boys seek revenge for their parents’ murder in this blood-soaked tale 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Balanchine Revealed In a Dance Inside a Play “Nikolai and the Others,” Richard Nelson’s new play at the Beaumont Theater, recreates one very particular milieu of Russophone exiles in America just after World War II. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ a Theatrical Portrait of Balanchine 2013-06-10T21:45:47Z Carter situates the development of Keynes’s economic thought in relation to his social milieu. John Maynard Keynes Died in 1946. An Outstanding New Biography Shows Him Relevant Still. 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Notoriously difficult to stage convincingly, the three acts of “Hoffmann” each take place in a different milieu, but somehow these vignettes have to hang together in a cohesive story. ‘Tales of Hoffmann’: Speight Jenkins goes out on a high note 2014-05-05T16:26:58Z Ms. Ahrens, a precise and skilled lyricist, also evokes the milieu effectively and provides welcome moments of felicitous humor. ‘Little Dancer,’ With Tiler Peck as Degas Muse 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The centerpiece of Blank Forms’ project is the book, “Organic Music Societies,” available on Friday, which collects oral and visual history as well as critical writing and lustrous photographs of the couple’s milieu in Tagarp. A Fresh Look at the ‘Organic Music’ of Moki and Don Cherry 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The Irish author returns here to a charming Dublin milieu of favorite characters from past novels, with some important new ones: chiefly the infant girl of the book's title. Maeve Binchy's 'Minding Frankie': one motherless baby, many willing minders 2011-02-03T00:02:03Z Now 84, he has cut a singular figure on Manhattan’s social scene for decades, cultivating his place within the city’s most rarefied socio-economic stratum, while often serving as one of that milieu’s most stringent critics. Tom Wolfe’s Papers Pop Up at the New York Public Library 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “Don’t Forget the Driver” gets to you, in large part, through its bleakly lyrical depiction of the fading, but in its way still lovely, seaside milieu of Bognor Regis. Review: ‘Don’t Forget the Driver’ Is a Comedy for Our Moment 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The production was a success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a milieu for which its charms seems tailor-made. Theater Review: 'Faith Healer' Casts Its Spell Again 2011-02-22T13:30:04Z It's hard to go back from such intellectual heights to the dumb milieu, especially given Carrey's very long shadow. 'Dumb and Dumber To' just a chip off the older blockheads 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z As creative activity in that milieu dried up, he shifted into private practice, co-founding the planning and architectural firm of Shankland Cox. Oliver Cox obituary 2010-06-02T17:49:00Z These acute character details create a rich triptych of the ails of a social milieu that’s precise in stroke, impressionistic in structure. ‘Toros’ Review: Why Are We Still Friends? 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z It is clear that she can be ruthless in defense of her family’s interests, but she is also limited by the patriarchal codes of her milieu. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The afterlife is a tricky milieu for any writer; maybe even trickier than the souls of wolves. Books of The Times: ‘A Million Heavens’ by John Brandon, Set in New Mexico 2012-07-17T21:16:28Z The show is set in a timeless yet modern, vaguely North African milieu; Paul Zoller’s stylish set is a large wooden box with shifting walls that keep literally closing in on the tortured, ill-fated characters. Critic’s Notebook: Very Old and Brand-New Operas at French Festival 2012-07-23T21:53:26Z He worked in publishing for several years, found a bohemian milieu in London, and in 1934 married Violet Pakenham, a famous and vivacious beauty and the daughter of a belted earl. ‘Anthony Powell’ Captures the Rich, Long Life of the Man Behind an Epic Series 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z As with her other novels, Jiles is in command of this historical milieu, evoking her scenes and characters with precision and detail. Paulette Jiles’s New Novel Goes Deep in the Heart of Texas 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The series’s personal conflicts are well-grounded, but the details — the upscale Jewish New York milieu, the fashions, the repartee — are idealized. Review: ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Takes Its Time, as Fast as It Can 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The milieu, with its vertical stripes and elaborate outfits and harsh footlights, came well-suited to the director’s house style. From tragic to magic: what's the best Disney remake so far? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z As their friendship blossoms into love, their milieu, and their differences in circumstance, start to encroach on their relationship. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The lifetimes of Merchant and Ivory spanned generations in which the cultural landscape changed slowly but radically; they both came from milieux in which being openly gay wasn’t common or acceptable. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Its milieu is esoteric even by Bravo standards: unpaid work facilitating the sale of aesthetic goods for staggering sums of money. Scenes from the Class Struggle in Reality Television 2012-08-14T12:58:45Z It provides the social milieu and therefore the context for interpreting the political meaning of "Joker." "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Given the racist, male-dominated milieu in which they live and work, these three women manage insults and injuries with true grit. ‘China Dolls’: Lisa See’s novel about friendship in a nightclub in the late 1930s “Honestly, it’s rare to see someone so smart in this milieu,” Mr. Bern said. Charlotte Casiraghi: Carrying On the Grimaldi Tradition 2012-05-20T17:10:14Z His delivery and his physical comedy are top-notch even in this low-brow milieu. 'Horrible Bosses 2' has horribly funny moments, but too few 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The acting ensemble overflows with camaraderie, and the design vividly conjures the unique milieu of the play. In 'Casa Valentina,' cross-dressing men show their feminine side 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z You are returning yet again to the world of late night with a character who is in that milieu or behind a desk in some way. "Maisel" and "Veep" star Reid Scott on why he loves playing "the bully types" 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Depending on the social milieu we grew up in or are enmeshed in, it might be impossible for us to leave our sexist milieu. How do strip clubs hurt me? 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The documentary “Algorithms” applies the durable “Spellbound” template to the milieu of blind chess in India. ‘Algorithms’ Follows Blind Chess Players in India 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z I was at the time enmeshed in an extremely Brooklyn, extremely mill-your-own organic baby food milieu, and Aunt Sandy was a comforting antidote. Sandra Lee makes dinners on TV for people raised on TV dinners 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z But “Reflections: The Expressionist Origins of Lisette Model,” an elegant survey at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery, which has just acquired Model’s estate, grounds her firmly in a European Expressionist milieu. Art in Review: LISETTE MODEL: ?Reflections? 2011-10-27T21:34:33Z “In a milieu of competition, abstraction, individualism and hard work, this section was a little bit of an oasis than most students get to enjoy in 1L.” Love and Law: Recent Mergers in 1L, Section 6 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z But that’s merely a milieu — the real vividness in “Hindsight” is in the storytelling and acting, which is earnest without being cloying. ‘Hindsight’ Is a New VH1 Series 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z It works here, too, but mainly because Kobek knows that milieu isn’t everything. Before the Internet ruined everything, we were real artists 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z We see it in the surrounding industrial milieu, not particularly bleak but removed from the life of the city, despite the up-to-date office interior; this mode of capitalism is obsolete. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Evan Bartoletti’s beautifully detailed set, which includes a fully functioning kitchen, is the somewhat claustrophobic milieu in which the two women bustle, bicker, snipe and, most frequently, richly amuse each other. Pie-making as theater: One really gets made while the secrets slip out on this Burbank stage 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z In a milieu populated by poseurs and wannabes, Peabody’s bohemian cool was the real thing, a hard-earned byproduct of four decades at the epicenter of the underground Washington literary scene. ‘The Richard Peabody Reader’ 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z “Long before anyone in our milieu had heard the word ecumenical,” he wrote in The Catholic Historical Review in 2007, “we kids were ecumenical in our social relations.” John W. O’Malley, Leading Catholic Historian, Dies at 95 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Patterson also insists that Wharton wasn’t “preoccupied with her own looks” and that her “appearance wasn’t problematic” in her own milieu. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z In that milieu, he got to know future night-life players like Jason Strauss, another Boston University student who is now one of the owners behind Marquee and Lavo. Up Close: The Velvet Rope Comes Down 2010-10-27T18:04:00Z Rockmore, a revered New Orleans artist of his era, was a fixture in the French Quarter bohemian milieu that enchanted Ms. Clevenger when she was a young woman working in the neighborhood’s bars and restaurants. The Queen of a Cherished New Orleans Restaurant Calls It a Night 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “I quickly came to treasure Ackmann’s ample descriptions, her deep knowledge of the poet’s milieu,” Megan Marshall writes in her review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z For “Edie,” which didn’t just capture Sedgwick’s life, but the entire New York artistic milieu of the 1960s, Ms. Stein spent a decade interviewing subjects — returning to some individuals as many as 15 times. Jean Stein, oral historian who chronicled the fate of Edie Sedgwick, dies at 83 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The relative exoticism of the milieu and all the healthy young people who soon fill the ensemble generate more enthusiasm for the viewer, as does the arresting black-and-white imagery. ‘Cold War’ Review: Love Without Borders 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z To judge by the clothing, the principal milieu is the mid-20th-century United States. In the galleries: Chinese ink paintings, enhanced with water and words 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Reports indicate that it’s set in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, the milieu in which Anderson grew up. New Fall Movies 2021: Here Are More Than 125 Coming Soon 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The intellectual and cultural milieu of the Scholls is evoked through scenes of theatre within theatre in which Dostoevsky and Goethe are dramatised as part of their discussions of political morality. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z For all Ms. Boggs’s sensitivity to diversity, she seldom strays from her own artist milieu to do her interviews. Review: ‘The Art of Waiting,’ What to Expect When You’re Still Not Expecting 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z But what an artwork does is create a cultural milieu within which things will be understood differently. Tate Modern's women's liberation army 2013-01-29T18:23:46Z Partly because the movie is so splendidly and completely absorbed in its characters and their milieu, it communicates much more than a quirky appreciation for old books and odd readers. Review: Melissa McCarthy Is Criminally Good in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z What drew you to playing Lund – was it the idea of playing a tough woman cop in an overwhelmingly male milieu? The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z Yet these two milieus — the White House and the cultural arena — now eye each other with both open hostility and wariness toward anyone unwilling to pick a side. Friends No More? Jorge Pérez and Donald Trump 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Women who had the money and were in a milieu like New York were told they had to get themselves analyzed: They had to go to therapy themselves. They “scared everybody”: How Jenny McCarthy and anti-vaxxers actually helped autism awareness 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z But the resources and technology of the future it depicts appear to be devoted primarily to the pursuit of sexual gratification and exploitation, in milieus that recall 1970s Times Square and contemporary Las Vegas. Review: ‘Altered Carbon,’ Netflix’s ‘Blade Runner’ Replicant 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Giraldi’s father, relatively footloose after two decades of single parenthood, throws himself into an equally manly milieu of motorcycle racing, whose “brutal and thrilling essence” leads to his death in 2000. ‘The Hero’s Body’: The dangerous world of hyper-macho men 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z But most television shows offer the conceit of characters inhabiting their own milieus. Dear France: I'm sorry about "Emily in Paris" 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z And it emerged from a fertile aesthetic milieu. Critic?s Notebook: Alone in the Wilderness and the Spotlight 2011-06-09T23:01:20Z Along the way, he’s become especially known for directing musicals by Stephen Sondheim, staged to reflect an Asian American spin or milieu. In 23rd year, East West Players' leader honored for 'unwavering support' of Asian artists 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z All these, and Disney's Dumbo too, mined the melodrama inherent in a milieu of temperamental artists, nature's oddities, wild animals and men who use whips to impose discipline. Water for Elephants: Under the Big Top with Reese and RPattz 2011-04-21T10:15:00Z Not only because of the cultural and geographic milieu, which may be as unfamiliar to many Colombians as it will be to most North American viewers. ‘Birds of Passage’ Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Amid his milieu, he reports zero self-consciousness about having gay friends or roommates. The Rise of the ‘Bromosexual’ Friendship 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Michael Powell, who drew on 1920s memories of the Diaghilev milieu for The Red Shoes, was just one among a generation of cineastes who found inspiration in the same source. How Diaghilev's Ballets Russes kept British cinema on its toes 2010-12-22T15:08:50Z A late bloomer, she embraced an established School of Paris milieu that included sculptors Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti. Claire Falkenstein's strangely contradictory sculptures 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z First published in 1970, this autobiography by the English-born author and biographer, who grew up between Ireland, America and Italy, insightfully captures a vanished time and a fading upper-class milieu. New in Paperback: ‘The Browns of California’ and ‘The Far Field.’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Instead, they gently nose you into a classic western milieu while simultaneously pulling you into a simmering family melodrama about two adult children grappling with each other and their terminally ill father. ‘Montana Story’ Review: A Domestic Drama in Big Sky Country 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z It can also offer zingy prose or nuanced characters or a foray into an interesting social milieu, but it doesn’t have to. “Gone Girl”: Marriage can be murder 2012-06-04T00:00:00Z But some is the particular milieu of the extremely bougie New York parent—perhaps the most uniquely self-involved group on the planet. “Louie” and the walking uterus: When ugly liberal entitlement and surrogate pregnancy collide 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z This feeling is especially acute right now, I suspect, because you’re suddenly immersed in a milieu that reflects your privilege back to you. How Can I Cure My White Guilt? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Houston’s brothers talk about their own use of heroin as pre-adolescents, and the milieu of drugs that surrounded the singer. Nick Broomfield on his damning Whitney Houston film: 'She had very little control over her life' 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z “We want SOUNDbox to have a festival feeling to it, to become an event that is connected to the community,” says Heather Bentley, a classically trained violist who is a beacon in the experimental-improvisatory milieu. SOUNDbox kicks off this month, offering a platform to Seattle’s vibrant new-music scene 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Rincón never loses sight of his protagonist’s hunger for love and beauty, which persists despite — or perhaps because of — a milieu in which both are hard-won. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z His writing for a 23-piece instrumental ensemble, gorgeously colored and pulsating with ritualistic percussion, suits the milieu and the vocal complement; Corrado Rovaris, the company’s music director, elicited a fine account from his players. Music Review: In Philadelphia, an Operatic Portrait of a Stepmother for the Ages 2011-06-05T22:02:22Z Meanwhile, Jack’s underworld milieu is shadowed by the threat of plague and monitored by a burgeoning police state. “Confessions of the Fox” Is a Cunning Metafiction of Vulpine Versatility 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Others wrestled with their consciences and vacillated — among them, the most enlightened, well-meaning and educated people in the frontier milieu, such as the brilliant newspaperman Francisco P. Ramírez. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z And yeah, we kind of know the middle-class milieu – Jim and I both come from that, and it just feels real to us.” Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Part of the problem here, I think, is the physical milieu of the show and its lack of atmosphere. A cold winter in Lookingglass 'Ethan Frome' but not much blood running through the snow 2011-03-06T20:55:54Z The family milieu is fascinating, and will be unfamiliar to most British readers. Not Me: A German Childhood by Joachim Fest – review 2012-08-10T21:55:03Z But The Slap feels like a broadcast network took an HBO-style project–provocative premise, specific cultural milieu–and then killed it with a pile of “Make the subtext more explicit!” notes. Review: The Slap Beats Its Viewers Over the Head 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z He examines more closely what the lyrics actually say, then relates them to the historical moment and milieu. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z That’s a common predicament in the film’s rural milieu, which treats its varieties of independent-minded characters — including the confused, overwhelmed but resilient Atticus — with understanding. Movie Review: ‘The Cold Lands,’ Directed by Tom Gilroy 2014-03-14T02:12:02Z The film’s milieu was inspired by a national gospel choir competition he attended in Newark a few years ago. Todd Graff Sticks to His Favorite Genre in ?Joyful Noise? 2012-01-06T21:31:48Z It’s a pleasure to find out how Sittenfeld has updated classic Austen scenes to fit this new milieu. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The movie’s title aptly describes both its milieu and visual approach. 11 Movies You Need to Know at New Directors/New Films 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile in musical milieus, “minimalism” is often deployed as a polite byword for either minimal effort or maximum pretense. Perspective | The late composer Jon Gibson helped save minimalism from itself 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z "Cristela," shaped around the character and talents of comedian Cristela Alonzo, is a more conventional, at times exceedingly conventional sitcom, but again with an appealing personality at its center and a casually Latino milieu. TV Picks: 'Jane the Virgin,' 'Cristela,' 'Uncle,' '50-Year Argument' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Betsy was a delightful comedienne, but I don’t think that Hollywood was ever really her milieu. Betsy Drake, actress and writer who married Cary Grant, dies at 92 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The character is immediately immersed in “Homecoming’s” milieu, as set forth by the original, fictional podcast from Micah Bloomberg and Eli Horowitz. Review | ‘Homecoming’ is back, and it’s missing a whole lot more than Julia Roberts 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Perhaps he wanted to invoke the kind of humanist milieu that educated Romans enjoyed. Art Review: ‘Antico,’ at the Frick Collection 2012-05-31T22:20:33Z Sachs is devoted to capturing the specific social milieu around two aging gay men in 21st-century Manhattan, and in that sense their sexual orientation is an important part of the story. “Love Is Strange”: More than a gay-marriage story, a gorgeous fable of American life 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The resulting project appealed to Ms. Parker both for its darkness and for its less-than-glamorous milieu. Sarah Jessica Parker, Leaving Carrie Behind With HBO’s ‘Divorce’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z And second, find as many ways to pay tribute to them and their spectral milieu as could work within the new story. 'Ghostbusters' Writer Shares Her Favorite Misogynistic Troll 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Certainly, these new friendships may be genuine, but these women are more often seen in Ms. Swift’s milieu — baking, shopping, taking lovely-looking vacations — than she is in theirs. For Taylor Swift and Drake, Friends Serve the Brand 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Sexton said that the teenage years are a natural milieu for Mr. Freeman. Television: At 40, Circling Back to Teenage Life 2010-08-28T02:53:00Z Based on Bonnie Garmus’s 2022 novel, “Lessons in Chemistry” follows the brilliant but frequently undervalued Elizabeth as she jumps from one chauvinistic 1950s milieu — an elite research institute — to another: local television. ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ and TV History 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Haynes is more invested in conjuring a vibe, placing the viewer smack in the middle of the mid-60s milieu that produced seminal figures like Reed and Warhol. Cannes Film Festival: ‘Val,’ ‘The Velvet Underground’ and Famous Jerks 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, leaving D.C. robs the novel of its rich satirical milieu — the Texas setting is not as entertaining — and it cramps the story into the narrow confines of a souring friendship. ‘The Hopefuls’ captures everything we love to hate about Washington 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z She first gives him a wife who whom he shares no passion, and then she sticks his wife’s impoverished-but-vibrant younger cousin into their stoical domestic milieu. A cold winter in Lookingglass 'Ethan Frome' but not much blood running through the snow 2011-03-06T20:55:54Z This outstanding intellectual biography situates the development of Keynes’s economic thought in relation to his social milieu, including his coming-of-age amid the bohemian experimentation of the Bloomsbury Group. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It wasn't much interested in the world beyond the exhibitionist milieu of London's clubland in the early 1980s, which was both its enervating weakness and animating strength. Royal Wedding; Worried About the Boy; Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop; Ashes to Ashes 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Appealingly, the heroes inhabit a more multicultural milieu than the one on “Entourage.” 2010-02-11T22:45:00Z He sums up people and milieus with strong, deft strokes. Review: ‘James Merrill: Life and Art,’ a Literary Biography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Last year, I placed Bravo’s Odd Mom Out on my year-end top ten list, a shout-out to the show’s unusual ability to act as an X-ray of its very particular milieu. Review: "Odd Mom Out" is a Tough, Refreshing Summer Satire 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Directed by Jonathan Shmidt Chapman and set in a semi-Victorian milieu, it’s a journey into the sky very loosely inspired by Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 Days.” Review: ‘Up and Away,’ a Trip Into the Clouds for a Special Audience 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z She borrowed a thirty-five-millimetre camera from school and began shooting McGinley-style snapshots of her own milieu: her little sister, Anna, who was then thirteen, and her sister’s friends. The Female Gaze of Petra Collins 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z There is some lively discussion of cabaret, but little regard for the theatrical and musical milieus beyond a lot of dropped names. Pamela Katz’s ‘The Partnership,’ on Weill and Brecht 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Its adroit use of masonry, metal and wood — rough and finished, reclaimed and new — results in a relaxed milieu at once antique yet au courant. A rave for Ethan Stowell's new Ballard restaurant, Staple & Fancy Mercantile 2010-10-14T20:47:00Z What rescues this from irrelevance is the fable-like milieu of the musical and, on this occasion, Rhodes’s extraordinary grasp of how to translate the show’s powerhouse songbook into three exciting dimensions. Review | The best of the Kennedy Center’s Broadway series? Game over, it’s ‘Tommy’! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z O’Mara toggles deftly between character studies and the larger regulatory and political milieu. How the Department of Defense Bankrolled Silicon Valley 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z WWD also was famous for the breadth of its interest in the entire milieu of the chic and the social, the consumers of high style, the wearers of costly gowns and well-sewn skirts. John B. Fairchild, Women’s Wear Daily publisher, dies at 87 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z To sidestep the problematic gender dynamics of Shakespeare’s original plot, Mr. Maillot made Katharina, the Shrew, and Petruchio equals — equally rebellious, and equally unsuited to their milieu. A New Calling Card for the Bolshoi Ballet 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z As an ambitious bourgeois anxious to become a man of the world, he expanded the business into the more glamorous milieu of haute couture in the 1870s. A Look at Fashion Designer Jacques Doucet's Collectibles 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Together they created a plausible, unforgettable origin not just for Batman, but for his entire milieu, most of which has been adopted by DC Comics as the official story. Comics: 'Batman: Year One' adaptation true to original 2011-10-18T17:37:04Z Dutton does not supplement the fascinating material details of Cavendish’s milieu with period intrigue; there are no poisonings, no clavichord-backed avowals of love. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Unlike True Detective it decided to stay essentially in the same frozen midwestern milieu but traveled back in time to the 70s. Rip it up and start again: why so many shows press reset for their second season 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z He spent the interwar years shuffling between Weimar Berlin, before Hitler put an end to that decadent and creative intellectual milieu, and Paris, Monte Carlo and London. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s wonderfully ironic that the cultural production of this milieu that eventually reached the widest audience is a talking-animal story. A Deer in the Headlights: ‘Bambi’ Reconsidered 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The book centers on the journey that brought Bush to the presidency and the social milieu that produced him. 'Destiny and Power' sheds light on George H.W. Bush and the country we've become 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z As in any arts milieu, there are occasionally stars. No License Plates Here: Using Art to Transcend Prison Walls 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z In the 40 years since, she has become internationally renowned for vivid portraits of her intimates — as well as European aristocrats and celebrities — all framed within their own rarefied milieus. Tina Barney: The Photographer’s Origin Story 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Rich people can be powerless and unhappy within their milieu and therapists can serve them. Am I just a mother now? 2012-08-22T00:00:00Z Once you adapt a work or a milieu for a new medium, it needs to work alone, not as a reproduction of another text or someone’s memories. Review: ‘Castle Rock’ Is Too Haunted by Its Past 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Vinothraj palpably summons the violence and oppressive nature of their relationship — and their bleakly impoverished milieu — with intensity and tremendous visual flair. New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The three of them are part of Washington’s black lower-middle class, a milieu that Mr. Daniels depicts with a warm specificity that recalls the short fiction of Edward P. Jones. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z Mr. Shawn also satirizes the chatter common to a certain intellectual-liberal milieu as we hear snippets from cocktail conversations. Review: In ‘Marie and Bruce,’ It Takes Two to Do This Nihilistic Tango 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z The people around Carol are idiosyncratic but never aggressively quirky, and the milieu they inhabit — the less-glamorous side of the Los Angeles creative economy — is depicted with affection and insight. Movie Review: Lake Bell Stars in Her Directing Debut, ‘In a World’ 2013-08-08T22:02:17Z Mike Leigh bathes his audiences in fellow feeling for people from other milieux. Is Archipelago a class act or an empty gesture? 2011-03-14T12:05:29Z Set in the robustly multicultural milieu of today’s American Southwest, Mayer’s drama enfolds such issues as immigration, nationalism, white privilege, economic disparity, class mobility, cultural values and gender roles. Inspired by Lorca, an L.A. playwright sets off in search of 'Yerma in the Desert' 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z “The Wife” is calibrated for maximum audience flattery: viewers are encouraged to nod in recognition at the literary milieu and clap their hands in self-congratulatory glee at the husband’s fall. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z One wonders what Michael Winterbottom, an equally versatile and prolific director who really does go out on a limb, would have brought to this milieu. Magic Mike – review 2012-07-14T23:05:59Z Growing up in New Orleans, she went to Catholic school, and that milieu feels like home to her. Review: In ‘Scissoring,’ Visits From Ghosts of a Closeted Past 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Set in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, New Orleans and finally Baltimore, the 125 pieces evoke changes in social milieu and way of life, from Bohemianism and drug use to motherhood, widowhood and purpose. Review | In these new audiobooks, great tales are matched with great narrators 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Like that show, “Sabrina” places adolescent melodrama in a supernatural milieu, drawing parallels between everyday teenage antics and otherworldly horrors. Kiernan Shipka Gets a Tarot Card Reading. It’s Mostly Good News. 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z The design of the space conjures a working-class, at times impoverished milieu straight out of the 1930s, with lots of attention to detail. Immersive theater appeals to audiences wanting to take part in art 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z A sixteen-year-old person, regardless of her cultural milieu, is a sexual being, whether she’s given language for that or permission to explore it. Writing a novel about Jews set in 1942—without Hitler: “Once you mention Hitler’s name, his mustache is in the room. The stakes change” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The coastal setting is gorgeous but impassive, the small-town milieu intimate but not sentimentally so. Deceptively simple 'Olive Kitteridge' unfolds as work of art 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Both Marshall and Harris give us a glimpse at a relatively newfound openness in the cheer milieu, where gay or otherwise nonconforming young men no longer feel ashamed about themselves or their sport. Review | Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ is the documentary that hard-working cheerleaders have long deserved 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Rossetti's "Jenny" brings us to yet another world, the poet's own bohemian milieu. Poster poems: Dramatic monologue 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z Her genius is to connect these far-off musical milieus with our world and our vital concerns, with myth, with the environment, with war and peace. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z It's a family and it's a milieu that's run on the benzene of iconography. Tilda Swinton, rock star of the art house 2010-06-19T18:01:00Z Feeling stifled by his American milieu’s oppressive propriety, Steward embraced a new creative outlet in the early 1950s. Dramatizing the Story of a Gay Mid-Century Tattoo Artist Who Was So Much More 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z You may have spotted the whiff of casual misogyny in the last two, which we stomach because it's appropriate to the milieu. Film review: Perrier's Bounty 2010-03-25T23:45:00Z The viewer is encouraged not to hover above the dank, alluring milieu but to wade in and wallow there, to get as dirty as its denizens. REVIEW: Eva Green Is the Dame to Kill For in Sin City 2 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The portrayal of the milieu and its mechanics grows convincing. 'Mozart in the Jungle' on Amazon gets good after woeful pilot 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z In slightly tawdry surroundings, the show found its milieu; “Little Shop” excelled in an atmosphere of decrepitude. After 36 years, ‘Little Shop,’ a ‘close to perfect’ musical, comes to the Kennedy Center 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Ibsen’s heroine was as radically out of step with her 19th-century milieu as Ernaux was with French society 80 years later. On German Stages, Women Take Control 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z In tracing the flowering of her vocation, Mr. Davies pays scrupulous attention to the milieu that fed it. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The big question, of course, is whether Mafia can maintain its laid-back milieu and dedication to conservation if its popularity continues to grow. Next Stop: Off Tanzania, Serene Mafia Island 2012-01-27T18:02:32Z “Barber,” in general and in Mr. Sher’s vision, is not wired that way, its milieu a recognizable version of reality. Music Review: ‘The Barber of Seville’ at the Met 2012-12-23T22:31:35Z Critics of the series have tried to suggest that what we are watching here is fancy soap – the lives and loves of a group of people in a shared milieu. Mad Men: the future of American film is on television 2010-09-08T08:01:00Z Unable to air dark feelings, she echoed the moralistic Midwest bravado I'd been force-fed, stuck in the kind of conservative, repressed milieu I'd escaped. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z She worries that, as a foreigner, she lacks the "immersion" a native would have in their milieu; but maybe natives become disengaged, while outsiders inhabit their chosen spaces more fully. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-29T07:00:03Z In a sense, he may have been captive to his early operatic memories, to the lingering Gilded Age milieu in which he got to know the art. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Brief references notwithstanding, his study is also missing a sociological map of the artistic milieu. How did American artists respond to the horror of WWI? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Stiller, directing his first full-on drama, presents the routines and milieus of the prison convincingly, though he indulges in the occasional superfluous tracking shot or odd camera angle. Review: A Sensational Prison Escape, Without the Sensation 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Social regimentation will then have become so deft that most people will regard any other social milieu as pitiable. Science fiction’s 2012 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z The “Plaza Suite” cast of characters and their 1960s milieu “don’t feel familiar to me at all,” Parker said. Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker Spend the Night Together 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z She, too, seems at home in this kind of milieu, but, revealingly, two of her most striking portraits stand out because of their starkness. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z Throughout the film, in milieu high and low, public and private, Cleo finds herself forced into the presence of mirrors. What to Stream This Weekend: Agnès Varda’s Chronicle of a Parisian Pop Star’s Dread-Filled Afternoon in “Cleo from 5 to 7” 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But in this pitiless milieu, even the best plans — like the one Walter and Phyllis meticulously contrive to knock off her husband for a big insurance settlement — can be undone by human passions. A steamy, riveting 'Indemnity' at ACT 2011-10-29T21:45:05Z But it captures a working-class milieu with the sort of authenticity and empathy that you rarely find in a Broadway musical. Hands on a Hardbody: Broadway’s New Pickup 2013-03-27T11:00:17Z It may derive from nostalgia for Wodehouse’s manicured milieu of mirth and privilege — “Downton Abbey” with a laugh track. Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Although Tom published his work in America, the illustrations explore a distinctively Scandinavian milieu – the Finnish cultural cornerstones of the sauna and the sausage stand feature prominently. The belated homecoming of Tom of Finland 2011-01-19T21:59:02Z Still, Orlando is part of a vivid tableau of early-20th-century urban popular culture, a milieu that provides “The Immigrant” with its setting and its inspiration. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The experiments performed by Ernst Fehr and colleagues demonstrated that a sense of fairness emerges as children become integrated into a social milieu. Are we born with a sense of fairness? 2012-12-26T16:03:00Z “At the Existentialist Café” is a bracingly fresh look at once-antiquated ideas and the milieu in which they flourished. Review: In Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café,’ Nothingness Has a Certain Something 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Author Kastin, however, does a superior job in placing her in the context of the milieu. 'Nica's Dream:' the wild life of jazz patron Pannonica Rothschild 2011-08-22T21:26:05Z Fortunately, that milieu resonated with Aparicio, a luminary of the flamenco world. ‘Dance in DC’ short films capture the city’s spirit of entrepreneurship 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z "Liar's Ball" is being billed as "a Horatio Alger and King Lear tale set in a fascinating and high-stakes milieu." J.C. Chandor goes from BP spill to 'Liar's Ball' 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z And the milieu is back-to-basics rock'n'roll, the Vaccines riding into town to reassert rock's fundamentals and kick all those prissy Klaxons and Vampire Weekends – and Drums – into touch. New band of the day ? No 882: The Vaccines 2010-10-07T16:08:00Z At least her milieu can be pretty fabulous. The Carpetbagger: Documentary Drama at the Oscars 2011-02-02T23:23:01Z But "Choir Boy," which opened Friday at the Geffen Playhouse under the direction of Trip Cullman, creates a milieu, culturally and theatrically, all its own. 'Choir Boy' melds music and message at Geffen 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z One thing mostly missing from the works, apart from the alluring woman nursing a martini, is any hint of the suave milieu of James Bond. Memo From Britain: Portrait of Spy Agency Leaves Much in Shadow 2011-02-21T00:14:06Z I didn’t realize that your parents were both very well-regarded artists who were exhibited by Peggy Guggenheim and were of the same milieu as people like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Robert De Niro Is Always Doing Something 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Made in Dagenham's dialogue has the authenticity of the period and the milieu. Putting the F-word in BBFC 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z Though Romano G. admired Nova’s technical proficiency as a composer, she said she was also eager to learn how she managed to flourish creatively despite living in a conservative milieu that was hostile to change. She Brought New Sounds to Colombia. The World’s Catching Up. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z True, his genre is different: reality TV thrives on conflict, surprise and rough edges rather than the white bread smoothness and polish of 1950s television, Reagan’s natural milieu. You're hired! How TV carried Reagan and Trump to the White House 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The Age of Access offered cafes, Internet connectivity, social communion and the delight of feeling part of a larger social milieu, and it measured its success in numbers of visitors. Perspective | This new museum doesn’t want Instagram or crowds. Does that make it elitist? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z In Rich Like Us, two women discover the corruption of their elite social milieu. Hari Kunzru: my hero, Nayantara Saghal 2012-07-20T21:55:13Z “A Scandal in Paris” and “Lured” both feature protagonists who cross over from a particular unsavory milieu to become respectable enforcers of the law. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Ellison, now 34, grew up among one-percenter Democrats in Marin County, Calif., a milieu where, he says, an oil heiress might protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq without seeing the irony. Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Photograph: Alex Macnaughton/Rex Features Tim Parks's new novel addresses in fiction a milieu and a theme that he explored, with great success, in his memoir Teach Us to Sit Still. The Server by Tim Parks ? review 2012-05-18T21:51:01Z To paint the cafe’s milieu, she identifies the institute’s stalwarts, such as supportive fans lovingly referred to as “Jean in the front row” and “Big Al.” ‘This Is the Life’ Review: A Valuable Part of Hip-Hop History 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Reality, though, was far enough removed from Arena's former milieu. Matteo Garrone: breaking free from the mob 2013-03-21T19:30:01Z The more her books sold, the greater her fame grew, and the greater became her access to the milieus about which she wrote. Jackie Collins, chronicler of lust and power, dies at 77 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z The language she was supposed to learn in her new milieu suggested that something was amiss. ‘Uncanny Valley’ Charts a Tech Pilgrim’s Progress 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z But for kids, they’re just part of the general milieu of being alive and having a body. Getting dumped: the humiliating nostalgia of a beachside wipeout 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z In the end, Potter seems ambivalent about the pilots and the milieu in which they live. 'Outlaws Inc.': fueling the black-market pipeline 2011-10-12T21:59:09Z In 1956, after graduating from Yale University, Oldenburg moved to New York, arriving in time to partake of a bohemian milieu on the brink of extinction. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z A semi-remake of the late Alan Clarke's borstal masterpiece Scum, it's a movie that refrains from glorying in the violence of its milieu without ever making any bones about quite how violent that milieu is. Scum holds the key to Dog Pound's prison power 2010-08-13T14:01:00Z To those who saw him only when he was in his element, Mr. Slonim seemed to lead a charmed life, unruffled in a milieu peopled with sometimes-sensitive celebrities and often-rude publicists. Death of a Red Carpet Reporter 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z “The Club” accurately recreates a milieu keen on character, egged on by the English taste for unashamed eccentricity. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z A writer generally has to be alone in order to write: what is interesting about the writing workshop is its communality, suggestive as that is of deficiencies in the social milieux. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z Ruthie is an only child, Jewish and Italian in a milieu where to be anything other than a Cabot, Lowell or some other Mayflower-y name is to be considered lesser, “off white.” ‘Very Cold People’ Makes Something Beautiful Out of a Painful Childhood 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z “She was a strong woman in a milieu of modernist males,” he said. A Swiss Dada Pioneer Finally Gets Her Spotlight 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z On Monday, the jurors of the Pulitzer Prize offered their own review of Lozada’s insights about Trump and the cultural milieu he has fostered. Washington Post wins Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, photography; affiliated cartoonist also honored 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z In other words, Coates hasn’t been and isn’t alone in interrogating the American milieu shrewdly, passionately. Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power' 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Note — this series is truly sequential, so start with "Magic Bites" — these addictive reads offer a dazzling milieu where magic has trumped technology. What's hot: Summer reading tips in science fiction, urban fantasy and steampunk from a Seattle expert 2011-07-10T22:48:04Z Together they began to plot a scenario for the home, taking the worldly expatriate milieu of The Golden Bowl, which is based on the Henry James novel, as inspiration. Triumph of Character 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s a play about power and manipulation, duplicity and misplaced trust, and what’s so threatening about it is the very ordinariness of its privileged milieu. Tom Hiddleston on ‘Betrayal’ and the Art of Self-Protection 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “The milieu I knew as a reporter is the milieu I write about, the world of journalists, politicians, diplomats, and soldiers,” Mr. Just said in 1987. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Sarah Ruhl summoned just such a milieu this season in the play within the play in her “Stage Kiss,” seen at Playwrights Horizons. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z He comes from a long line of miners and speaks with the earthy, rough vernacular of his milieu. Fashion Gets Down and Dirty 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “She chose to put herself in that mix,” he said of Georgetown’s liberal milieu. If Tiffany Trump wants to be just another Georgetown Law student, her plan isn’t working 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Beverly Hills is the nominal setting, but the real milieu is Bravo. | 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills': Primped and Pampered Princesses of La-La Land 2010-10-13T21:58:00Z In important ways, the computer artist works in a milieu hostile to aesthetic concerns. Was Steve Jobs an Artist? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z He also seems entirely at home in his milieu, even as he is troubled from time to time by stirrings of compassion or remorse. Review: ‘Aferim!’ Traverses an Unforgiving Romania in the 1800s 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Dax selected the name to evoke "the dissonance between the political landscape at the national level and the cultural milieu of the downtown New York performance scene". Come to the Cabaret 2013-02-28T17:53:53Z His resilience and perseverance result in drawings as lacerating as Daumier’s, as distinct as Toulouse-Lautrec’s, and as beautifully, tragically human as Schiele’s — mostly in the milieu of underground countercultural cartoons and illustrations. When the Stars Get Down, What Movies Cheer Them Up? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The never-fulfilled expectation of rhyme is a suitable curse on any lonesome quartet of drinkers at any bar, a milieu that Auden calls "an unprejudiced space where nothing particular ever happens". On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Mr. Friedman often wrote about the art world, which formed part of his social milieu even when he was a businessman, and he often wrote about writers. B. H. Friedman, a Novelist, Art Critic and Pollock Biographer, Is Dead at 84 2011-01-10T05:26:28Z Though not pretentious, his film feels a tad overthought, held back somehow by a stubborn, dour obscurity clouding its freshly realized, lurid milieu. ‘Miss Lovely,’ About Indian Exploitation Films 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The ethical milieu Allen establishes among the rest of the adults in the film is striking. What I talk about when I talk about Woody Allen 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The milieu is Dublin's prosperous and status-conscious social elite, a sleek and well-heeled group that existed before, during and after the Celtic Tiger boom. What Richard Did – review 2013-01-10T21:10:01Z But this production still takes place in that bleak, arid prison that is the usual milieu of Chekhov’s discontented souls. The Anger on London’s Stages Is Palpable, and Thrilling 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z He stopped drinking decades ago, but was able to tap into the anxieties and voices of that milieu in his work. Award-winning author Denis Johnson dies at age 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z "I don't think people were as fascinated by that milieu and that period and I think it was a bit obscure." NBC TV chief says fall season "worse than I hoped for" 2012-01-06T21:32:29Z The problem is that the film, concentrating on the accurate portrayal of Alice’s condition, leaves the other characters undeveloped, and their social and domestic milieu hastily sketched. In ‘Still Alice,’ a Professor Slides Into Alzheimer’s 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z He seemed completely in command of his milieu, middle- and upper-middle-class England at the beginning of the twentieth century, and he gently picked apart its sympathies with wit and penetrating insight. Why Novelize a Novelist's Life? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Longley told me that he filmed the students and teachers as though they were movie stars, the Hollywood celebrities of their own milieu. James Longley’s “Angels Are Made of Light” Captures the Daily Despair of Ordinary Afghans 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Before Mayer’s Vegas take for the Met, Jonathan Miller transferred “Rigoletto” to a 1950s mobster milieu in New York's Little Italy. A Fascist-era ‘Rigoletto’ returning to Seattle Opera 2013-12-31T23:10:37Z She finds herself in a different time period and milieu with “Salem,” which is set in 17th-century Massachusetts and imagines the famous witch-trial period a bit differently than the history books describe it. Lucy Lawless Brings a Defiant Edge to ‘Salem’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Now enjoying a renaissance that began around three years ago, the current swing-dance milieu consists of a network of clubs, events, instructors, dancers, D.J.’s and bands. Swing Dance Clubs Go Retro in New York City 2011-12-22T23:00:17Z “I have rarely read a description of this milieu that is so grippingly written,” the journalist and cultural critic Siegfried Kracauer wrote in The Frankfurter Zeitung. A Gritty Weimar Portrait of Youth Gangs, Restored to Renewed Acclaim 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Often the most knowing and least innocent principal dancer in New York, here she’s deeply absorbed by a stage milieu larger than herself. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z Given the elusiveness of information, this is less a biography than a critical study that searches for traces of Caravaggio in the milieux, both churchy and raunchy, which he frequented. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z Ms. Saks found a congenial milieu in the faculty and the students whom she loved to teach. Acclaimed Seattle musician Toby Saks dies 2013-08-01T21:09:42Z The milieu is like “Young Sherlock Holmes” meets “Tales of the Crypt” meets “Dragonheart.” “Game of Thrones” Season Finale: Women and Wildfire 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Guest curator Joshua Nathanson, a painter of wistful Pop graffiti, is after what an exhibition statement describes as a discordant milieu of “cozy chaos” and “comfortable dysfunction.” The 'Grind' of city life at Various Small Fires 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z British publication of The Other Typist has been timed to exploit Gatsby mania, and Odalie is certainly a wily gatecrasher of a gilded milieu. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell – review 2013-06-07T09:01:01Z And “Togetherness” has a tough road in that regard: It takes place in Hollywood, a milieu that Americans love to hate even more than Park Slope or Williamsburg. ‘Togetherness’ Joins ‘Girls’ on HBO’s Sunday Night Roster 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The two artists were friends, moved in similar circles, served the same social milieu and confronted the same dangers as the ancien regime in France fell into the turmoil of revolution, bloodletting and vengeance. Summer Arts Preview: NGA puts the varied works of Hubert Robert on display 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z “The milieu in which I grew up produced a different type of person: a wanderer.” | 'The Imperialists Are Still Alive!': ?migr?s in New York Who Aren?t Outsiders 2011-04-15T00:12:10Z Make him an even more attractive target with no friends or any hope of protection in this milieu. Sparring with Mike Tyson 2012-08-09T04:48:00Z He learned from them fast cutting between scenes, fantastical milieux, spare dialogue, quickfire narrative momentum – not to mention how to discombobulate readers by shifting times and introducing characters elliptically. Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Sure to all of that — but let them tell you, the Trump milieu was craaazy. Live on stage, Joe and Mika happily dish about their complex relationship — with the president 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Neon Neon's recent electro-pop album, Praxis Makes Perfect, hangs suspended between two unlikely poles: the power of literature and the milieu of postwar communism. Neon Neon – review 2013-06-08T23:06:01Z But it captures both the milieu it evokes and the colorful characters who populate it with a buoyancy and humor that ultimately won me over. Review: ‘A Bronx Tale’ Explores the Struggle for a Boy’s Soul 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z As with “The Americans,” he was out to convey complexities of human feeling and sensation, but in an increasingly intimate milieu. A Mesmerizing Marathon of Robert Frank’s Movies 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Though Kunzru works in miniature, sketching out a whole milieu in a few pages, many of the episodes build up a vivid particularity. Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru ? review 2011-07-27T10:30:00Z “I think the shows share a milieu, but that’s probably where it ends,” Goldman says of the inevitable comparisons to Girls. The Outs: the best TV show not on TV explores the lives of gay Brooklynites 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Don't let the white-collar milieu fool you, though. 'Race's' incendiary topic defused by Mamet's underwritten characters 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z It is in the very milieu that Morrison has described that their athletes and coaches live, play and interact with the media and fans. Donald Trump reawakened activism within pro sports — let’s give thanks 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z In her chosen milieu, it would be unusual if she were married and raising kids in a house at age 34 — by her own account, she left her husband precisely to avoid those things. Review: ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ by Elizabeth Gilbert 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Martin has thrived in the ghostwriter’s milieu, where the trick is to remain as anonymous as possible, because the public likes to believe that pop artists write their own songs. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z She further plays with our expectations by taking milieus usually associated with violence and heavy drama — drug dealing, prison life — and making them the subjects of lightly satirical dramedy. Television Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ a Nexflix Series 2013-07-10T20:13:07Z And would a woman of Sandra’s purported class and milieu really speak with the exuberant, expletive-riddled aggressiveness and vulgarity that she displays? | 'Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling': ?Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling? at Classic Stage - Review 2011-10-04T02:01:04Z Ms. Lacey doesn’t tweezer in enough inside information to make these milieus seem entirely credible. Catherine Lacey’s ‘Nobody Is Ever Missing’ 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Petty is an unusually articulate commentator upon his own career, and of the milieu in which he has operated. Unreported World 2010-05-14T07:00:00Z The exhibition is also a kind of apotheosis of Mr. Williams’s own artistic milieu: 1970s site-specific installation, 1980s Pictures Generation art and the arcane 1990s trend of institutional critique. ‘Production Line of Happiness’ Is a ‘Making Of’ Special 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “At the time, Venice was the most populist city in Europe,” he said of Tintoretto’s 16th-century milieu. An Old Master of Painting Was a Master of Marketing 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Many of the Abstract Expressionists were really from a totally different milieu. The Inquisitive Guest Visits a Motherwell Retrospective 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z To his credit, Zwart gives les attention to the city's exotic aspects than to its grimy, bustling, working-class milieu; this might be Detroit with dumplings. 'The Karate Kid' Review: Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith Do Kung Fu Fighting 2010-06-11T09:10:00Z So we thought we'd recommend some other interesting stories in the carnival milieu. If you liked 'Water For Elephants,' Scarecrow suggests other carnival films 2011-04-21T22:07:17Z What they are sure they will get, with a title like ‘The Addams Family,’ is humor, fun, and delight at being in that Addams milieu.” The Critics May Rant, but ?Addams Family? Rakes It In 2010-04-14T01:23:00Z Here, he sticks to a single, admittedly richly vibrant milieu and a central character who appears in virtually every frame. Biutiful 2011-01-30T00:05:53Z She added: “The milieu in which I became an artist, like Judson Dance Theater, was almost totally a white community, which we’ve been severely criticized for. But we didn’t reach out.” Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Other films have stuck closer to the tried-and-true tropes, plugging the recurring noir themes of corruption and deception into a more offbeat milieu. Trouble in paradise: The Beach Bum and a history of Florida noir 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z But it's the scamming, the milieu and the mercurial characters that keep you hooked. Review: 'Mauritius' at Seattle Public Theater is a taut, twisty thriller 2010-10-07T21:32:00Z The milieu itself, so vibrant in the 1950s, is anemic. 'Cantinflas' is buoyed by Oscar Jaenada, hampered by Hollywood 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The Debt is a little too gray and stolid — by which we may simply mean too true to its complex milieu — to qualify as scintillating entertainment. The Debt: The Spy and the Gynecologist 2011-08-29T16:20:00Z Dorner is a wholesale product of a society gone mad on racism and war, of a state that aggressively punishes dissent, of an intellectual milieu where telling the truth has become a dangerous act. Christopher Dorner was not a monster 2013-02-14T23:26:00Z For a woman of her social milieu and class, what she did wasn’t just breaking taboos. Uncovering Strangers in a Strange Land 2013-09-03T16:40:40Z Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes brought together many of the leading progressive composers, performers, artists and designers of those times, and the impact of this milieu on Wood’s work is revealed in the second room, “Theatrical Parallels.” Christopher Wood’s Brief Life, Richly Expressed 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Like “Biutiful,” another unsparingly harsh movie that opens on Wednesday, it has a naturalism that is almost entirely a matter of visual texture and social milieu. | 'Blue Valentine': Chronicling Love?s Fade to Black 2010-12-28T23:12:13Z In writing it, I realized that Alex had introduced me to an entire milieu, one that influenced the direction of my life. Rachel Kushner on What She Takes From Art (and Artists) 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z The Iron Islands milieu feels a bit like the Eyrie’s: its depressing gray monotony and remoteness fosters freaky relationships. “Game of Thrones”: Backbones All Around 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Just as she absolutely nails the formulaic milieu of “Cedar,” her description of “Griffith,” the animated musical series on which Flora ultimately finds a steady, reasonably satisfying gig voicing a lioness, is pitch perfect. Double the Trouble in a Novel of Hollywood Marriages 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Of course, Nutcracker is typically the milieu of young girls in pretty dresses and small boys thrilled by battling mice and toy soldiers. Parent Map | Dad's review of the Pacific Northwest Ballet's "Nutcracker" 2011-12-01T21:03:34Z Their appeal, besides the innate tension of teenagers on the verge, is their contemporary milieus and sharp dialogue. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z He was inviting you to a concert, yes, but also into his home; he offered, in milieu and music, both elevation and comfort. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z But she saw a disconnect, she says, between those two milieus. 'Art Brief: Iranian Contemporary Los Angeles': Bridging communities, one pop-up at a time 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Secondly, surely we're beyond the point where a single play or playwright is expected to represent a whole milieu? A boost for black theatre 2010-03-22T17:11:00Z With her fine features and intense bearing, Binoche seems whisked into this hip milieu directly from antiquity. Juliette Binoche ready for her close-up in a moody ‘Antigone’ 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Guha maintains that if Gandhi had not accepted the assignment in Africa, he would probably have remained in the same narrow milieu. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Rather, Strauss responded to a German-speaking milieu in which gay desire was expressed more freely than in most other societies. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z But in their pursuit of silliness, he and Mr. Brooks never firmly establish that milieu, leaving their antihero without a foil and their play without a context. Review: A Molière-Born Cad for the Ages in ‘Don Juan’ 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z But milieu "Moments in Love" creates is equally as spare and atmospheric, and the plot progresses as slowly and purposefully. "Master of None" returns for an unexpected third season with "Moments in Love" 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z The ICA Miami would seem perfectly primed to pick up on that challenge of moving beyond the narrow confines of the contemporary milieu and showing the full history of art. When It Comes to Contemporary Art, Miami Wants More, More, More 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The milieu of Nancy Drew has shifted with the times over its many years. The all-new "Nancy Drew" is progressive and hooking up, y'all 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z “The Harder They Come,” currently being revived at BAM Rose Cinemas and Metrograph, is a universal story set in a highly specific milieu. ‘The Harder They Come’: A Pop Classic That Has Hardly Faded 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “Constantine” thrusts us into an all-too-familiar milieu of meaningless symbols, old leather-bound books, sudden power outages, gathering storm clouds, garbled Latin and the Beast within. NBC’s ‘Constantine’: The devil you know a little too well “When we decided to have children,” he says, “we just realized that no way you would have children in such an unstable milieu.” Tomi Ungerer’s Triumphant Return 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z But she pours considerable research into each part, believing that an internalized knowledge of how her character would speak and move — and of what sort of milieu her character inhabits — will come through. The Age of Laura Linney 2010-07-28T20:52:00Z Allen’s Judaism isn’t intellectual and it isn’t historical; it’s personal, rooted in the specific milieu of his upbringing, the American urban cluster of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, and he imbues Bobby with its peculiar contradictions. Youthful Illusions in Woody Allen’s “Café Society” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z That includes the cultural milieu of museums and galleries in the United States. Anila Quayyum Agha Uses Patterns to Break Patterns 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Cooper’s film, in comparison with that film’s oddly camp country-rock milieu, feels more rooted in, well, if not the truth but a truth of the music industry. A Star Is Born isn't sexist or 'rockist' – it's a cutting insight into so-called 'authenticity' 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z You got the sense, though, that this milieu did make him, or at least hardened him, allowing his own sense of purpose to flourish. Rewind TV: Panda Makers; Operation Mincemeat; The House That Made Me; The Day John Lennon Died; The Nation's Favourite Abba Song 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z The New York milieu of “High Maintenance” is a wink at the trust-funded creative classes milling about Brooklyn, but that is not where the show lives, as one might expect. The Surprising Compassion of “High Maintenance” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Tamar-kali is one of several new voices in a persistently white male milieu. Female Composers Are Trying to Break Film’s Sound Barrier 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Robert Jackson Bennet's debut novel Mr Shivers drew acclaim by crafting an alternative fantasy from the milieu of the Great Depression. The best young sci-fi novelists 2013-04-15T11:51:22Z But it’s reimagined with characters speaking contemporary English, and its milieu feels terrifying modern. The Best Jokes of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z “They aren’t addicted to likes, but they are focused on finding their social milieu, and at least half of this is happening online.” There’s a lot more to a selfie than meets the eye 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z But in embracing the enigma the song points to the larger problem of women’s history: the public records are thinner, the milieu is mostly domestic, and there’s more need for speculation. The Women of “Hamilton” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z But while Levinson is not working from his own history as in “Diner” or “Avalon,” “The Survivor,” partly because of its subject matter and postwar milieu, feels of a piece with those overtly personal films. ‘The Survivor’ Review: Clenched Fists 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Bach poses challenges to all musicians, and they grow the further removed we become from his historical milieu. Review | Washington Bach Consort starts strong but hits a wall in its season finale 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Pound’s musical creativity, such as it was, is inseparable from that milieu and its extravagant enthusiasms. There Is Nothing Quite Like Ezra Pound’s Opera 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Such expressive, loosely choreographed rowdiness — a common and longtime feature of live performances across musical milieus, including metal, punk and ska — does not necessarily equate with mass danger. Before the Astroworld Tragedy, Travis Scott’s ‘Raging’ Made Him a Star 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z "I thought artistically I would be in the kind of milieu I thrive in and find very fulfilling," he said. John Mangum to head Philharmonic Society of Orange County 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z If you’re looking for Hillary Clinton grist, the focus is on her milieu as First Lady. 'Inside the Clinton White House: An Oral History' 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Mamet's movie depended on mystery and the spectator's willingness to see things from Margaret's point of view: we were as fascinated as she was by this murky milieu. Review 2010-09-16T23:33:00Z NO milieu, however, was more transporting than the East End neighborhood of Shoreditch. The Details: In Praise of British Design 2012-09-26T22:11:26Z It’s a fitting milieu for a woman who cultivates mental cobwebs. Review: In ‘The Saviour,’ Past Trauma Is Very Much Present 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z I was on Aldermaston marches from the age of 10, I was very, very aware of the nuclear threat and I grew up in a leftwing, outsider, academic milieu. Sally Potter: 'I dreamed about the nuclear threat most nights' 2012-10-04T19:30:02Z The collision happens so fast that you may not initially recognize the underlying poeticism of the milieu, a place of suffering and healing. Movie Review: ?The Kid With a Bike,? From Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2012-03-15T22:41:22Z Comedian Joan Rivers and tennis great Martina Navratilova both wrote mysteries that cashed in on their celebrity and knowledge of a certain milieu, with a novelist co-author doing most of the heavy lifting. Secrets of the Dick Francis mysteries: One family kept the "greatest fiction factory" under wraps 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Even in that milieu, Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher reported in their 2007 biography, “Supreme Discomfort,” Thomas’s “edgy race consciousness” stood out. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s a state of mind more than a milieu. Tet Is Full of Traditions, but You Can Have It Your Way 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z But despite its affection for the quirks of its characters and their milieu, the film is most memorable for its gravity, for the almost tragic nobility it finds in sad and silly circumstances. Review: In ‘Rams,’ Brothers at Odds Face a Shared Threat to Their Livelihood 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Though that negative perception is changing, as popular culture and the fantasy milieu become increasingly synonymous, I believe that the benefits of D. & D. are still significantly underappreciated. Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The Beradts lived in Charlottenburg—a largely Jewish suburb of Berlin, which was home to figures such as Walter Benjamin and Charlotte Salomon—and the dreams Beradt gathered reflect the area’s secular, middle-class milieu. How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Though they were set in an urban milieu represented as real, the universe of these films was an especially fictional landscape. The return of blaxploitation: why the time is right to bring back Shaft and Foxy Brown 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z It provides terrific context on the dress, the figures and the social milieu in which these remarkable works were created. Rare race, class, fashion depictions: Lost 'casta' paintings at LACMA 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z “I think it was unique to being in this place, and maybe because there was such a lack of a strong critical milieu.” The Bay Citizen: California?s 1970s Conceptual Art Comes Home to Berkeley Museum of Art 2012-03-02T00:41:07Z These sprawling novels of galactic milieus, giant orbitals and even larger A.I. ships and their various machinations offer one of the most compelling and sustained visions of a far-flung future. Review | ‘Dune’ is a classic space opera. Let’s talk about other great works in this genre. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Tom was born, raised, and educated in the same milieu. “Metropolitan” and the Enduring Plight of the U.H.B. 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z The supporting characters are vividly drawn, and Krentz fans will be right at home in this milieu. 'In Too Deep': Jayne Ann Krentz debuts a new paranormal trilogy 2010-12-23T21:24:04Z The shot sets the scene for Mahesh Narayanan’s dense, breathless thriller, which plunges us with little exposition into its gritty milieu. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z And while the show’s dialogue, especially, is defined by broad vulgarity, beneath that surface is an experiment in skewering a benighted milieu without indulging in the very things that made it appalling. ‘Black Monday’ Mines ’80s Excess for Comedy and Commentary 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Creating art and living in an aesthetic milieu seemed, initially at least, to have about equal weight for him. Rudy Burckhardt: ‘Subterranean Monuments: A Centenary Celebration’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z For those who miss live theater, an additional frisson of pleasure comes from visiting that milieu again, even briefly. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture,” published in 1980, is a broad and detailed survey of Austrian politics and culture at the end of the 19th century, a milieu that profoundly influenced the 20th century. Carl E. Schorske, historian who won the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 100 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z It is an astounding, assertive likeness made around 1575 when the artist was an ambitious upstart from the sticks of Crete, struggling for a foothold in the highly competitive cultural milieu of Baroque Rome. ‘Men in Armor’: El Greco and Pulzone at the Frick Collection 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z He could pin a milieu to the wall. The Life of Robert Stone, Who Captured American Energies in Intense, Foreboding Novels 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z “I appreciate the respectful milieu here, even if the classes don’t mix very much,” said Alain Naudeau, a merchant who sells jewelry from Indonesia and Thailand here. | ?le de R? Idyll 2011-08-11T21:14:17Z To evoke the milieu of Haring’s ’80s New York, the show will include a black light gallery that recalls disco clubs like the Paradise Garage, as well as the artist’s music playlists. Taking Keith Haring Seriously 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z There is no doubt that the filmmakers harbor great affection for Dury, his music and his milieu. | 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll': Andy Serkis Stars in Ian Dury?s Punk-Rock Story 2010-05-04T22:55:00Z The "ethical milieu" of ambivalence he dreamed of was all around him, in fact, maybe as far away as a subway ride downtown. What I talk about when I talk about Woody Allen 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z He avoided setting the work under Nazi rule, instead opting for the 1920s, the same milieu as the popular TV series “Babylon Berlin”: a society on the brink of upheaval. The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Nightbus undertake a bolder project: to infiltrate ideas about infatuation and obsession into the club milieu. New band of the day ? No 761: Nightbus 2010-04-07T16:03:00Z Justin was 10, so he was in the same sort of family milieu. Paul and Justin Theroux on Eccentric Patriarchs and ‘The Mosquito Coast’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z The actors aren't always believable as a family, and the precise milieu is a little too generalized. Family history upended in 'After the Revolution' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The grueling process took years, and often involved separating himself from people from his old drug milieu and holing up in his country house in New Jersey, where he explored tai chi and Eastern philosophy. Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z This narrative of the first half of Augustine’s life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire with a Proustian relish for detail. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z May stints on the details, but the New York milieu is lower-middle-class; the wedding is at home, and Lenny has a City College banner on his wall. Screening Alert: Elaine May’s Masterful “The Heartbreak Kid” 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Abu Alala says his team tackled obstacles in making the film, thrown up by the same conservative milieu that it depicts. A Sudan in transition presents first-ever film for Oscars 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z As Dostoevsky reminds us in “The Gambler,” the entire milieu was fake and designed to attract fakers, and the biggest fakery of all was the pretense that this was all respectable. MGM’s $1.4 billion casino is a cruise ship to nowhere 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Under the executive producer Vera Miao, its roster of writers, directors and characters is more diverse than you’ll find in just about any other broadcast-network show not set in a specific milieu. Beyond ‘Black Mirror’: 7 Shows That Serve Bite-Size Scares 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z The milieu from which Bruce Lee emerged to become the world’s first martial-arts superstar — both as a film performer and a proponent-teacher — was probably as fascinating as the man himself. Review: In ‘Birth of the Dragon,’ Young Bruce Lee Meets a Master 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Every show is ridiculed for its perceived inaccuracies by whoever the denizens are of its real-world milieu. ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ an Amazon Series 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z The milieu is comfortably upper-middle class, but it’s a cold comfort, and much of it doesn’t ring true. ‘When You Finish Saving the World’ Review: Mother and Son Disunion 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z I picture her as the kind who treats fashion Very Seriously and has wholly embraced the velvety creep of art vocabulary into its milieu. Critical Shopper: Yigal Azrouël Opens Uptown 2012-10-16T15:22:35Z Through Mr. Lubbock the two men entered into the artistic and literary milieu of I Tatti, the art historian Bernard Berenson’s villa. Hugh Honour, Art Historian and Author, Dies at 88 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Fated always to be a heroic exemplar of the female artist in a male milieu, Morisot deserves to be recognized for other forms of heroism — and perhaps for her vulnerability, too. You know Monet and Manet. This female Impressionist deserves your attention, too. 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Harlem, the protest novel, bigoted religion, the Negro press and the student milieu of Paris are all examined in black and white, with alternate shutters clicking, for hours of reading interest. Langston Hughes on James Baldwin’s ‘Notes of a Native Son’ 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z But that narrative, of an aspiring woman in a heady and male-dominated milieu, is compelling. 'The Receptionist:' an extra-literary education at The New Yorker 2012-07-03T21:01:06Z Together they convey Stravinsky’s range and shifting identity, depending on his milieu, Mr. Botstein writes. The Week Ahead: Jan. 15 ? 21 2012-01-13T19:24:49Z Eight years later she moved with her parents to the southern city of Krakow, and developed deep ties to the medieval city, with its rich artistic and intellectual milieu. Poland's 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T20:32:13Z Tony Cisek’s set — a forest of violin strings, delineating the rich Viennese musical milieu — evokes the thoughtful labors that have gone into all aspects of this revival, one of Folger’s best. Review | ‘Amadeus’ at the Folger will be music to your ears 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Dread saturates Schnitzler’s novel “The Road into the Open,” whose central figure, an aristocratic composer, moves through a largely Jewish milieu with chilly detachment, embodying, in Schorske’s words, a “value vacuum.” The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The multicultural milieu lends an initial boost as Mr. Kwek’s jokes and plot entanglements take potshots at life in Singapore, but all the air seeps out of this attempt at zippy, tabloid-nutty storytelling. Review: In ‘Unlucky Plaza,’ a Comic Hostage Crisis via Tabloid Storytelling 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It's just strong enough, almost soulful, but it's also got the requisite blankness to convey – and we're guessing at their lyrical concerns here – numbness, nihilism and all the other stuff appropriate to the milieu. New band of the day ? No 882: The Vaccines 2010-10-07T16:08:00Z Meanwhile, Hadley struggles with her awkward, tangential role in the exciting milieu of painters and expat writers. Paula McLain's 'The Paris Wife': the first and best of Ernest Hemingway's wives 2011-03-26T01:03:49Z T.T.S. seemed a way to blend the old-fashioned cocktail milieu with a dash of hip elitism. Heads Up: At a Toronto Bar, Rules and Creative Cocktails Mix 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z It’s through Peggy’s consistent, traumatised silence that Scorsese highlights the true horror of the milieu he’s examining; she sees the old, male world of her father for the self-destructive farce it is. Toxic avengers: what Scorsese and Tarantino's new films say about male violence 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Jason comes from a beloved, clichéd fiction-writers’ milieu in which prep school kids know all about one another by inference and intuition. Books of The Times: ?The Starboard Sea,? a Novel by Amber Dermont 2012-02-28T23:57:01Z Amid the debauchery of the milieu, ugly incidents presage the Nazi takeover. Review | In this Kit Kat Klub, there’s a little less sleaze but just enough sizzle 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z What these men and women often have in common, though, is their emergence from an American cultural milieu they are simultaneously rejecting and appropriating for their own ends. What drives Americans to join the jihad? The book 'United States of Jihad' explains 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z However, the vastly different milieus mean that they don’t really feel that reminiscent of one another. The Bastard Executioner: latest medieval drama won't slay you 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z This is no big surprise, since it’s hard to think of any milieu that is less hospitable to the basic narrative architecture of television than the travails of the music industry. ‘Roadies’ chokes on too many monologues about the romance of life on a rock tour 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “For me it was about leaving behind the ‘auteur filmmaker’ milieu with which I’m associated in France and Europe. ‘The Bureau’ Is an International Hit. Why Did Its Creator Hand It Off? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z He’s a man comfortable in seemingly any position or showbiz milieu, acting as executive producer to films in need of a push through production and cameoing as himself on Entourage. Gus Van Sant: 'Whatever scene we're filming, we make it as hard as we can' 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z She specifically cites the troubles caused by her plain speaking in the ostensibly integrated and sophisticated downtown milieu, centered around Café Society, where she became a celebrity in the early forties. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The good news is that with a strong cast and a compelling milieu, “Vinyl” doesn’t need to put its characters on a boat or otherwise reinvent itself. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1 Finale: As Confused as Ever 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z To the Cody family, crime is a way of life, the only one they know, and Michôd makes their milieu hideously and comically convincing. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:24Z So I think it depends on whatever their milieu is, but more and more `Mad Men.' 'Mad Men' actor bites off bigger role in season 6 2013-06-14T16:12:11Z It was only when he got to New York University to study film that he looked around and realised most of his classmates had come from the exact same milieu with the exact same backstory. The Florida Project’s Sean Baker: ‘I wanted the kids to be the kings and queens of their domain’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z The milieu might justify their presence, the creators might argue, but plausibility doesn't make it feel any less cheap. On the watch list: 'Ballers' and 'The Brink' 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Dotted with details of her particular milieu — the ferryboat, the crepe shop, the rock show that leaves glitter in the eyelashes — “Monsters” is part memoir, part treatise and all treat. Face to Face With Culture’s ‘Monsters’ 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z That image reinforces the movie’s acrid portrait of a scuffling working-class milieu where the lines between legitimate employment and petty crime blur. Review: ‘Two Step’ Scuffles Around With Petty Criminals 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z But in the same way that TikTok provided an optimal milieu for PinkPantheress to try out this style, the app, which accelerates all culture consumption, has begun to reabsorb her, too. PinkPantheress’s Slivers of Dance-Pop Play With Memory Like a Toy 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z De Clermont-Tonnerre, by contrast, takes on the western as a milieu and a genre with an appreciable lack of cynicism. ‘The Mustang’ Review: Where the Wild Things Roam. And Sometimes Break Out. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Among this milieu, the Venezuelan punk scene was born. Reviving Venezuelan Punk, the Music of Revolution 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Once again, Mr. Kosashvili mixes moments of bitterness and laughter with strong dramatic passages, creating a social milieu in “The Duel” that is believably inhabited, consistently surprising and true-feeling in detail and sweep. | 'Anton Chekhov?s The Duel': Fiona Glascott in Dover Kosashvili?s Adaptation 2010-04-27T21:31:00Z The production, which opened Friday at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts under the direction of Michael Wilson, makes the most of its posh Washingtonian milieu. When a 'City of Conversation' becomes a union divided: Political factions propel drama at the Wallis 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The online milieu means that young people all over the country can enjoy the free presentations and see their favorite authors and illustrators in action. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z A director doesn’t have to wait to respond to the social milieu in the same way a writer does. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Readers who can’t get enough of this milieu will be more than gratified by Whitney Scharer’s first novel, “The Age of Light.” Review | Lee Miller was more than Man Ray’s muse 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z |
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