Sentences with phrase «yuppies in»

I remember when getting up to turn the TV over seemed perfectly normal or when mobile phones in the 90s seemed advanced compared to the stereotypical brick owned by yuppies in the 80s, writes Kim O'Meara.

You know them as Baby Boomers, but originally they were Hippies who became Yippies, who became the Me Generation, who then became Yuppies in the 80s as they finally settled down to work.

Note that we are doing our best not to mention the mewling yuppies in Lincoln's ads.

Anyone who saw the three - hour My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1997) when it showed at the Film Center last year knows that, for better and for worse, writer - director Arnaud Desplechin, born in 1960, has a generational voice, speaking for and about French yuppies in their late 20s and early 30s.

Most of Chicago is literally crumbling to bits, while the yuppies in Erudite walk around in buildings that look as immaculate as giant Apple stores.

The first half concerns Brooklyn high - school student Chantel (Ariyan Johnson) as she deals with academic disagreements with her teachers (at one point getting into shouting match about the Holocaust), takes advantage of her boyfriend's wallet to go on a shopping spree, and confronts yuppies in the Upper West Side gourmet shop where she works.

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.

, and most recently of course, the yuppie in Edgar Wright's cohort of mid-life pub - crawlers in The World's End.

Not exact matches

Still, the luxury gym is acutely aware of its yuppie factor, which is why it opened the budget - friendly Blink Fitness in 2011, offering Americans monthly memberships as low as $ 15.

The topics were old standards: The pro-business, yuppie - ish, Clintonian Dems and the more economically lefty, antiwar types are in a fight for the party's soul; the Bush White House is manipulating the media; the «pageant - size fantasy» of certain starry - eyed Dems is of a last - minute Hillary run.

The term for them in the «80s was Yuppies.

This is the picture that lawyer - writer Louis Auchincloss presents in the novel Diary of a Yuppie (Houghton Mifflin, 1986).

A sample: When Crossan was once trying to describe how Jesus and his disciples stood out during the rule of the Roman emperor Augustus, he said they were «hippies in an Augustan age of yuppies.»

Jesus is NOT in the supercillous and voyeuristic yuppies who find hearing about the lurid circumstances about the death of an innocent child like Kaley Anthony (in the media) entertaining.

We may put ourselves on a list to adopt children with disabilities in order to provide a backup for someone who is struggling with the decision, Churches tempted to aim for yuppie - friendly perfection in their church pageants and Sunday school instead may need to reconfigure the expectations of the parents they seek to attract.

We first meet them as Ryan decides to pull over a Lincoln Navigator in which yuppie film director Cameron (TerrenceHoward) and his wife Christine (Thandie Newton) are engaged in a bit of horseplay.

Its not in some bottled warehouse waiting to be sold to yuppies.

«Jesus and his first followers... were hippies in a world of Augustan yuppies» — a remarkably succinct summary.

I definitely had to try it this week since I was in the yuppie food -LSB-...]

Living in a cute yuppie neighborhood where you can walk for most of your errands?

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.

In fact, Houston yuppies are all in line for some big insurance payouts, not to mention all the opportunites ambulance - chasing lawyers will exploit out to this to line your pocketIn fact, Houston yuppies are all in line for some big insurance payouts, not to mention all the opportunites ambulance - chasing lawyers will exploit out to this to line your pocketin line for some big insurance payouts, not to mention all the opportunites ambulance - chasing lawyers will exploit out to this to line your pockets.

Speaking of overpriced, yuppie supermarkets, I continue to be shocked by the prices at the fairly new Whole Foods (WF) in Colonie, NY.

In the week before polling the BBC even identified Wimbledon as the spiritual home of the Yuppie!

But detractors are painting an image of Manhattan yuppies renting space in the boroughs to store skis and relief from their bulging closets.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

A recognisable tribe of yuppies that dressed in a manner that was well - bred, slightly above mainstream fashion, and a wee bit posh.

Alexander Wang's collection also went for a slightly more contemporary yuppie and also touched down in the 90s with the Matrix feeling.

More Indian Yuppies Eschewing Arranged Marriage For Online Dating — In an attempt to explain the shifting romantic climate for women in India, Mumbai businesswoman Shyra Mogul — who escaped an abusive arranged marriage in her 20s and is now single again — tells NPR that her generation grew up.In an attempt to explain the shifting romantic climate for women in India, Mumbai businesswoman Shyra Mogul — who escaped an abusive arranged marriage in her 20s and is now single again — tells NPR that her generation grew up.in India, Mumbai businesswoman Shyra Mogul — who escaped an abusive arranged marriage in her 20s and is now single again — tells NPR that her generation grew up.in her 20s and is now single again — tells NPR that her generation grew up...

According to the founder of Farmers Only, there are two types of people in the world: yuppies and hicks.

Though passed up for the lead in the former film, Leto made an impression in a supporting role as an arrogant yuppie doomed to be the first victim of vapid serial killer Patrick Bateman.

And in Singapore, discover how pragmatism works for time - starved yuppies, juggling careers and kids.

We know this because her best friend, her mum and her colleagues talk about * nothing * but the problems of attracting and holding onto those yuppie college boys in their bright uniforms, all with exciting careers ahead of them.

Back in their darkened home, the couple are visited by Joe, a manly blue - collar worker who irritates the yuppie Matt, but inflames Annie.

Even more impressive have been Brooks» credits as writer / director, including the PBS - documentary lampoon Real Life (1979), the angst - driven Modern Romance (1981), the yuppie odyssey Lost in America (1985), and the «Heaven is a Strip Mall» fantasy Defending Your Life (1991).

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.

An»80s yuppie (Judge Reinhold) and a street - smart hitchhiker (Willem Dafoe) find themselves stranded in a desert town when local rednecks damage the yuppie's car.

It takes more than just the right clothes and soundtrack to imbue a flick with genuine Eighties spirit: though the leads click charmingly, this feels exactly like a Noughties teen comedy in yuppie drag.

The plot is set into motion when Maura and Kate come home to Orlando for a visit, where they're shocked to find out that their parents (James Brolin and Dianne Wiest) have sold their family home and want them to clean our their rooms as soon as possible so a pair of stereotypical Manhattan yuppies can move in.

Almost immediately, she's honed in on by two very different types of predatory men: Her boss (Justin Bartha) is a cavalier yuppie who comes on to her in his office (which she goes along with willingly), while a neighborhood drug dealer named Blue (Brian «Sene» Marc) simultaneously teases and covets her (again, she goes along willingly).

Playing on the hipster habit of prizing of all things retro, the film leaves no stone unturned in pitting the Bushwick Bohemians against the older yuppies.

Page is a star, no question (the only reason you don't walk is because she patches a lot of holes), but Juno is best at revealing the limitations of folks like Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner, the perfect yuppie couple to whom Juno decides to bequeath her spawn — the one tasked with wearing Soundgarden T - shirts and pining for his days opening for The Melvins, the other asked mainly to be the hysterical, barren woman, ovulating like a chicken and resembling that Mo Collins character from «MADtv» who, in lieu of children, collects Precious Moments figurines.

There's a devilish joy in his face when he first meets Beau Bridges» yuppie land developer and readily admits to shooting up his housing development, but that's complicated as he learns of Rose's true feelings for him.

Rooting for them in a romantic sense was like being asked to cheer Todd and Margo's joyless yuppie relationship in «National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.»

«Bleeding Heart» sees another leading lady effort from Jessica Biel, content in a yuppie clean living existence until she's burdened with taking in her troubled younger sister.

In a dark Manhattan yuppie bar, adman Roger (Campbell Scott) dominates a discussion about sexual fulfillment, childbirth, and the propagation of the race.

It's new territory for Stillman, although his skill for skewering yuppies and the upper class in his earlier works makes the prospect of him tackling an elegant period piece all the more appealing.

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.

Still, there are undeniably funny bits, with commentary on yuppie - dom and the state of modern business that makes it a perfect example of the materialistic thinking that was so rampant in the Eighties.

In the meantime, we are introduced to the five men she has dated prior to the wedding: a recently - divorced entomologist (John Hannah, The Hurricane), a former star baseball player (Anthony LaPaglia, The Salton Sea), a yuppie computer salesman (Henry Thomas, Suicide Kings), a sex - hungry author (Gael Garcia Bernal, Don't Tempt Me), and an ambitious surgeon (David Boreanaz, «Angel»).