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...Kenny’s operations are then rather tenuously linked to a subplot involving yuppie investor Edwyn (Dominic Cooper) who sees his marriage break down over 1980s economic tribalism....
...The wait has served only to build anticipation — even if the final result screams more “yuppie” than “hippie”....
...Opening scene: the press-ganging of a waitress as auxiliary childcare by yuppie parents....
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...The pivot from “freedom fighter to Manhattan yuppie” as one newspaper put it, was bound to raise eyebrows....
...The clash between the yuppie smarts and the nativist demagoguery would jar. And then it would unnerve. Yes, his detachment might hold him back on the campaign trail....
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...During an interpolation of Huey Lewis and the News’s “Hip to Be Square”, a Bateman fave in the film (and novel), the deranged Wall Street yuppie is depicted discussing his love of Ice Nine Kills’s later...
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...The city of London has been many things - Roman trading outpost, financier to the British empire and deregulated yuppie playground. Now Brexit is eroding its position as Europe's financial hub....
...Fifty years from now, a yuppie of the Late Anthropocene sprawled on his terrace in the November heat, gazing out over the dykes that line the Thames, may remark: “You know this building used to be a department...
...self-made man who, for all his success, still desperately tries to eradicate his lowborn past and craves the approval of society’s elite, Rory is a character far more in the mould of Jay Gatsby than a yuppie...
...(“Yuca” refers to both the ubiquitous, starchy Cuban root vegetable, and Young Urban Cuban Americans, Miami’s version of the yuppie.)...
...We were the yuppie Stakhanovites with no breaks for lunch in our inevitable and seamless rise to mastering the universe. But secretly I burnt with jealousy....
...Max Lord (Pedro Pascal) is a turbocharged yuppie....
...Deregulated yuppie playground. Now it needs another reinvention. Brexit is eroding its position as Europe’s main financial hub. Alternative futures are prophesied....
...It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) travels the same territory, small business against monopoly capitalism, while Scrooged (1988) does something similar for the yuppie era....
...He perfectly captured the wave of Yuppie design, the chrome, black leather and bare brick of the gentrified loft....
...As a student, I briefly owned a T-shirt with the slogan “Die Yuppie Scum”. But its audience was mostly limited to my fellow undergraduates....
...Memphis designs and knock-offs popped up everywhere, from music videos and sitcoms to corporate lobbies and yuppie lofts. As a collective it was remarkable, the list of designers eye-popping....
...Dupont Circle has become more yuppie and less bohemian, with fewer dive bars and more million-dollar-row homes. No matter....
...He adds that regeneration has to be tailored to location, pointing out that “no one is going to want to live in yuppie city-centre flats drinking £4 coffees” in areas where incomes have been stagnating for...
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