Sentences with phrase «city yuppie»

This mild 1984 comedy about a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who falls in love with a New York City yuppie (Tom Hanks) isn't at all hard to take (John Candy, in a supporting role, is hilarious and original, and Hannah has a pleasant naive charm), but its appeal is based almost entirely on regression — a thematic regression to infancy (now endemic to the American cinema) and a stylistic regression to the most lulling kind of TV blandness.

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Once the hub of the city's Polish immigrant community, the triangle sits roughly along the border of the Wicker Park, East Village and Noble Square neighborhoods, in a Hispanic area that's quickly being diluted by a growing population of yuppies.

First up from Deadline is news that Steinfeld is in early talks to join Ten Thousand Saints, a feature adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's 2011 novel set in 1980s New York City, an age encapsulated by CBGB, yuppies and gentrification, all leading to 1988 ′ s Tompkins Square Park riots.

Brooks plays Daniel, an underachieving yuppie businessman who carelessly takes his new Mercedes for a spin, only to run head - on into a city bus.

In Jersey City alone — where six charters have been approved — there is one started by white yuppies and one by the Urban League.

How did the ugly white running shoes worn by yuppie joggers get all jiggy and become the dopest icon of the inner city?

After novels like Bright Lights, Big City and Less than Zero, Longo's dance of death took on a new meaning, as emblems of yuppie nightlife.

The function of these lists seem to be a way that cities can advertise themselves to development, and in Portland's case, to legions of hipsters and yuppies.

In her city, schools were consolidating (due to yuppies having less kids, if any at all).