Word: milieu
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...show's milieu can be phony, the resentment it taps into is not. When a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that working men still do less housework than working women, we should have seen the success of Housewives coming. And men aren't the only villains. There are also women who righteously judge other women: the local gossip, the neighbor who chides Lynette over how she disciplines her kids. None too subtly, these bad women are piggy looking and dowdy, unlike the lissome, likable Huffman and Hatcher. It's not the most feminist way of drawing distinctions...
...greatest moment of the exhibition is set at its extremity. Furthest from the entrance, as if deliberately hidden form the most ADD stricken of frivolous tourists, the democratized museum has brought us to a thoroughly different milieu. Here there is a comparison that sets before our very eyes the power and possibility of the media of print...
Jihad leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist and the most wanted man in Iraq, this weekend released a telling window into his organization, Attawhid wal Jihad, or Unity and Jihad. In a slickly produced hour-long video Zarqawi lays bare the milieu of his suicide bombers, their safehouses, their rituals and their targeting guidelines. Given directly to TIME, the video is a bold, menacing statement of the group's intent and capability. The subtext of this disturbing tape is that for the U.S. this is likely to be a long, drawn out fight in Iraq against a committed...
...University offered a rich intellectual milieu that sustained Sen’s growing interests...
...novel Couples, based on the social milieu he had encountered in Ipswich, won Updike a spot on the cover of Time—the first of two cover features about him that the magazine ran in fewer than 15 years...