Sentences with phrase «few yuppies»

While dozens of tour buses wait, thousands of pilgrims of every description — the maimed, the blind, the infirm, the elderly, middle - aged American housewives, professionals, students and even a few yuppies in designer jogging suits — walk or crawl up the mountain.

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Jonathan Demme's buoyant mid-Eighties yuppie road movie is, in retrospect, maybe the key American film of its era along with Blue Velvet (also 1986, but Blue Velvet was more popular), but despite excellent reviews very few people went to see it.

Few could have anticipated the rapacious development Harlem is undergoing today, as real estate investment and speculation displace longtime residents and remake the neighborhood into yet another yuppie frontier, with galleries, as is usually the case, playing their vanguard role in driving up rents.