Mr. Springer's first Broadway production, "No Place to Be Somebody," centered on the lives of black denizens of a rough-and-tumble New York saloon, a milieu rarely explored by mainstream theater of the period.
A lesson from the last thirty years of intense neoliberalism is that a Left that emphasizes individual choice within a broad, vague democratic milieu is indistinguishable from mainstream liberals.
What's different is the everyday, warts-and-all way in which it carries out its transgressions, as well as its ability to send up its Texas milieu without the condescension that mainstream television usually brings to depictions of working-class America.
We're still VERY MUCH part of that milieu as well as the mainstream straight world.
And it's not often that someone connected to such a deliberately uncommercial milieu as techno taps so directly into mainstream culture.
However, since those guys and the other brand-name companies seem to be doing just fine without my help -- and because there's nothing inherently stupid about skis, snowboards and outerwear -- I decided to eschew the big boys and focus my attention on the companies and products that are a little less mainstream and a little more suited to my particular milieu.
Mr. Nanjiani sheepishly refers to his milieu — the scene that formed in the vacuum left by mainstream comedy's demise — as that of "alt-comedy," an antidote circuit to the traditional "Broadway clubs," like Carolines, Gotham Comedy Club and the Comic Strip.
In this context, it is noteworthy that the Tat machinery is extensively used for protein secretion by certain halophilic archaea, such as Haloferax volcanii and Haloarcula hispanica, indicating that Tat has evolved into a mainstream secretion pathway for some organisms that grow in highly saline milieus [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35].
For those who love ballet and prefer it to be present in mainstream culture, rather than cosseted away in what Fisher calls its usual "swank milieu," it's tempting to be cheered by its current popularity and prominence.
Much of "Can't Find My Way Home" is driven by a desire to understand how substances like marijuana, heroin, peyote, cocaine, LSD and amphetamines escaped their original milieu -- whether pharmaceutical or ethnographic -- and infiltrated American life, first the fringes and then the mainstream.
Friedrich towered in his milieu.
