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“Hollywood High” also makes its way out of the white middle-class milieu where so many teen movies are set.

In such a milieu, Hine’s troubling 1908 photographs would easily disappear, perhaps seizing a moment but soon evaporating into the visual miasma that floods the zone daily.

Like his milieu, she said the characters of her memoir, which takes place in Brooklyn from 2016 to 2020, lived in acute awareness of the “ideological bankruptcy” of their time.

This plea stands in stark contrast to our authoritarian milieu in the United States, which is defined by active contempt for the weak.

It uncannily turns a specific milieu — Jewish strivers of New Jersey in the second half of the 20th century — into something universal.