demimonde

• “Where else but San Francisco would an underground gourmet produce market become the destination for the downtown demimonde to purchase kombucha and bergamot marmalade on their weekend nights?”

  The Wall Street Journal: Keeping Reality at Bay

• “Perfect blocking turned the stage's perimeters and centers into a spacious feline demimonde through which to enact a spiritual ceremony that felt like a combination of West Side Story, Woodstock, and Stonehenge.”

  The Huffington Post: James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West

• “In 11 volumes published between 1888 and 1894, and many years later widely published in a condensed edition, the narrator's adventures in the London demimonde are narrated in such detail as ultimately to become tiresome rather than titillating.”

  The Washington Post: Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels

• “The ECB resists, and all who balk will be chastised by the monied powers and their demimonde, the ratings agencies and global banks.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The ECB’s Complacency

• “And that Joe and Ratso rise above the material, taking on a reality of their own while the screenplay detours into the fashionable New York demimonde.”

  Favorite Film Friday: Midnight Cowboy « A Progressive on the Prairie

• “Rather than posit the voyeur -- I mean viewer -- in a demimonde of hustlers, junkies and transvestites of his classic films, in News From Nowhere Morrissey looks to the suburbs for darker lurkings, specifically the coastal town of Montauk, situated on the eastern-most point of Long Island, where the land finally ends, and gives way to a vast ocean.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Vazquez: Warhol Factory Auteur Paul Morrissey Premieres News From Nowhere In-Person at Lincoln Center Tonight

• “The aesthetic common denominator was a "finish fetish" or "fetish finish," your choice borrowed from the southern California demimonde of hot rods and custom cars—i.e., the kind of slick, finicky attention to smooth perfection required when applying dozens of hand-rubbed coats of cherry-red enamel to an auto body.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When the West Coast Went Pop

• “The homosexual demimonde of the 1880s and 1890s will certainly feature in some of my stories, but these aren't in any sense "gay murder mysteries.”

  Gyles Brandreth Answers Questions about the Oscar Wilde Mysteries

• “Sinclair considered him a young man of the demimonde but decided to treat him like a reasonable human being anyway.”

  The Huffington Post: Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood 'Attack Ads' Hit Upton Sinclair Again

• “Much has changed since then, but the topic of women and violence — especially as represented by women — remains more or less in a time warp, bound by the themes of sexual and domestic trauma, just as male depictions of female violence are locked in the noir demimonde of fantasy, the slinky femmes fatales once played by Barbara Stanwyck and Lana Turner more or less duplicated by Kathleen Turner and Sharon Stone.”

  intertribal: that sorry excuse for a woman has a hole in her soul.

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