Sentences with phrase «riche social climber»

But the other half is killer: two magnificent female turns, one from Tracey Ullman as a nouveau riche social climber, the other from Elaine May, raising pitch - perfect dumbness to high art.

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Described by Tom Wolfe as «the folk heroes of every social climber who ever hit New York» — Robert was a high school drop - out from the Bronx — the Sculls shrewdly recognized that establishing themselves as influential art collectors offered access to the upper echelons of Manhattan society in a way that nouveau riche «taxi tycoon» did not.