Sentences with phrase «young upstarts like»

Decades ago, Joseph Kosuth famously dismissed young upstarts like Vito Acconci as doing «concrete poetry,» not true Conceptual art.

Moving to Manhattan in 1978, he took up with the city's downtown bohemian crowd, hobnobbing with young upstarts like Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Madonna and Jean - Michel Basquiat.

Young upstarts like the Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Columbus Blue Jackets proved unready for primetime yet.

And yet, as much as I condemn Pizza Time, I've got to admit that for a young upstart like me, I had a lot of freedom.

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And there were digital - first upstarts like Birchbox that drew the younger customers Avon has failed to win.

I have heard this conversation many times behind closed doors in Hollywood, and it goes something like this: «It's boring to show young upstarts typing away on computers, so how can we spice this up for TV?»

Welcome to Los Angeles in 1983, when Wolfgang Puck was a young upstart on the culinary scene and a section dedicated to dishes like a cooked in a wood - burning pizza oven was almost totally unheard of.

Ask yourself why Ferguson was happy to allow the likes of David Beckham, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Jaap Stam and Cristiano Ronaldo to leave the club, when seemingly their intentions to do so were not motivated by greed, yet a young upstart tells the club «I want an obscene wage like the players at Man City, if you don't give it to me then I am off» and for some reason rather than choosing to cash in on a player who appears to not know the meaning of the word «loyalty» (just ask Everton supporters), instead hands the player the biggest deal in the club's rich history.

Old school managers like Harry Redknapp and Alan Curbishley were overlooked, while young upstart laptop managers like Andre Villas - Boas were given top English jobs.

The good folks at Slate have found a revealing pop culture / political culture connection: by mashing up a clip from the movie Election with footage from the current Democratic race, they find Hillary Clinton's inner Tracy Flick and capture what it must feel like to have some young upstart...

The good folks at Slate have found a revealing pop culture / political culture connection: by mashing up a clip from the movie Election with footage from the current Democratic race, they find Hillary Clinton's inner Tracy Flick and capture what it must feel like to have some young upstart come along and steal your moment.

Advocates of online learning say programs like UPSTART, which is free for most families, may increase access to educational opportunities, which can be critical to ensuring the youngest learners don't start behind and stay behind.

The Big (i.e., irrelevant commercial) Publishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (the nerve!).

It is unusual to discover an artist like Ms. Blystad — clearly a master — tucked away in a second - floor gallery in Chinatown, where you expect to see young upstart artists.

Is this a true flagship phone that's ready to take on the likes of the iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Huawei P20, or is it, rather, going up against young upstarts such as Honor and OnePlus?