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demimonde [ˌdɛmɪˈmɒnd (French) dəmimɔ̃d] n
1. (Sociology) (esp in the 19th century) those women considered to be outside respectable society, esp on account of sexual promiscuity 2. (Sociology) any social group considered to be not wholly respectable [from French, literally: half-world] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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This is a celebration of the people I love in New York and their creativity and community spirit," says Mitchell, who is something of a guru to the downtown queer demimonde, shepherding pet projects into existence (like Jonathan Caouette's astonishing 2003 filmic memoir Tarnation, which Mitchell executive-produced) and providing overall moral support to scores of artistic friends. With good reason: Twenty-one of Merchant-Ivory's forty-six films concern India and the Indian diaspora, including documentaries such as Helen: Queen of the Nautch Girls (1973), a profile of a Bollywood dancer who appeared in more than five hundred films, and the docudrama The Courtesans of Bombay (1983), which presages such later looks at the Indian demimonde as Salaam Bombay This unfamiliarity is particularly the case for those who conceive of race and post-rock experimentalism as an incongruent mix not unlike a modern day myth of racial and sexual violence, and a quasi-pagan transcendence set in the drug-addled, post-imperial demimonde of Glasgow and London's Soho. |
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