| 单词 | yuppie |
| 例句 | “So naturally I assumed you were one of those yuppies.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I don’t care for the neighborhood much—too yuppie and white for my comfort—but the festival is free and it’s outdoors. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The neighborly market I used to cruise for produce now looks forbiddingly like a Manhattan yuppie emporium. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good. Because right now I don’t have you pegged as a yuppie. You’re something else. I’m not sure what you are, but I’m going to find out.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “One thing I’ll say for these yuppies…” she said with a grin. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Those things represented the other world, the road not taken, the domain of suits and yuppies. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We thought about Seattle or San Francisco, or Boston,” Eric said, “but no way do we want to go to yuppie cities.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the yuppies are waving me down for more decaf and the black couple looks ready to summon the NAACP. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a lot of yuppies in this place, and you have that look about you, you know—the yuppie look of people with money?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z They became trapped in rush- hour traffic again, surrounded by half-asleep yuppies in suits who were sucking coffee from foam cups and listening to traffic reports and easy rock and roll. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Justin smiled at me just as the train’s last yuppie scurried out ahead of the closing doors. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Or would he, as I suspected, deprive the yuppies of another crack at him and drift in some other direction? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The only repeat pickups I get are old guys who always know a better way or yuppie businessmen who are always checking their watch or talking on the phone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Far as I can tell,” Tee said, “hipsters are basically yuppies with tighter pants and bigger glasses. Whatever they are, they make a mean mochaccino.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z What about that ingrained resentment toward yuppies, so strong he’d refused to even consider moving to some of the most interesting cities in America? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t let the cockatiel throw you off; this is no yuppie ambience. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z These were, in fact, the very yuppies Jesse had gone to such lengths to avoid. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As does Robin, who is worried about proving her worth as a business partner to Strike, and who is getting cold feet about her approaching wedding to her boring yuppie fiancé, Matthew. Review: ‘Career of Evil,’ J.K. Rowling’s Grisly Crime Novel 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z “Everybody from slackers to yuppies carefully ‘curates’ their outward appearance,” Mr. Thiel writes. For Tim Cook of Apple, The Fashion of No Fashion 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The character—scolded by her bohemian parents as an amoral yuppie, patronized by her brain-surgeon fiancé and by everybody else—explores the life of a black woman on Wall Street with an intelligence elsewhere absent. “Black Monday,” Reviewed: In Praise of Regina Hall and Little Else 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Baby boomers entered their prime earning years, and yippies became yuppies. Celebrating Norman Lear, progressive architect of the Archie-verse, as he turns 100 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z A versatile character actor whose television roles included a yuppie producer on “Newhart” and a closeted dad on “Girls” and who was on Broadway with longtime friend Tom Hanks in “Lucky Guy.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The house is just off Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley’s central thoroughfare, where the homeless co-exist, sometimes uneasily, with students and yuppies. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z It’s a road movie and a satire about Reagan-era yuppie culture. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah’ and ‘Something Wild’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Both 1988 movies are what happened when the rom-com golden age collided with the ambition and yuppie snobbery we see in “Wall Street.” Perspective | ‘Working Girl,’ and why we love the impostor rom-com 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z “I’m like a yuppie junkie, man,” he said. Up Close: Notoriety in a Tight Embrace 2010-06-09T23:12:00Z And the man presenting them is sometimes a clean-shaven yuppie in a bow tie and a double-breasted blazer, rather than the bestubbled, mock-turtlenecked guru we think we remember. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z “At face value he appears to be vain, self-involved and shallow — yuppie,” he said. Peter Scolari, ‘Newhart’ and ‘Girls’ Actor, Is Dead at 66 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The main audience might well be found on the festival circuit outside China, where viewers seek something more than the dynastic action films or yuppie romantic comedies that do well at the Chinese box office. Chinese Independent Filmmakers Look to Locarno Festival 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z She was very much stereotyped as the frigid, uptight, yuppie wife, you know, feminazi shrew — what have you. What Hillary and Britney have in common: “There is no way you can actually do ‘being a woman’ correctly in the public eye” 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z I know we are not the first group of starry-eyed yuppies in an emerging neighborhood who think we can draw our struggling local school into the renaissance. Motherlode Blog: Why I Want to Choose the ‘Disadvantaged’ Local School (and Why I Might Not) 2013-05-30T18:30:20Z She also shreds the mystique of yuppie emporiums Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. Review: An uneven evening with Sandra Bernhard 2012-06-22T22:50:05Z Meanwhile, the couple’s three children, who range in type and age from gawky teen to mildly depressive yuppie fledgling, bolster the main themes by jaunting and plodding throughout their own romantic lives. “Wanderlust,” Reviewed: Toni Collette in a Self-Help Soap Opera 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z In tone and execution, it could almost be viewed as a meta-satire of all the ways people used to make fun of yuppies in the Reagan era. Review | Showtime’s ‘Black Monday’ is all snorts and not enough laughs 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z I am an academic yuppie and am getting married soon. Social Q’s: Something Borrowed 2014-05-01T23:19:40Z I'd add the male doctor who sighed, when I came to the hospital after a miscarriage in my early 30s, "You yuppies think you have all the time in the world." Our crappy healthcare system is to blame for Goop 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Brunch was already a punchline about yuppie excess back in the eighties. Leave brunch alone! 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Abruptly, these two yuppies seem to lose the little personal warmth they possessed. ‘The Václav Havel Project’ heads to Prague Fringe Festival On any given weekend, hipsters, yuppies and hard-core country fans go boot-scootin' across the Uptown club's scuffed dance floor and beneath its neon beer signs. Honky tonkin' in the city 2011-05-05T15:50:00Z What this mostly means is trying to reconcile her attachment to Rex with her engagement to David, a sacrificial yuppie played by Max Greenfield. Review: Woody Harrelson as a Wild and Crazy Dad in ‘The Glass Castle’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The videotape dating services used by time-poor yuppies in the 1980s set the stage for the boom in high-tech mate-shopping by the turn of the 21st century. Love’s labour 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Not far away was a Zen bakery, a corner store run by brothers from Palestine, and a gym frequented by the types then known as yuppies. “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and the Fear of Being Erased 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z His wife responded, “Don’t say ‘yuppie’ that loud, you’ll get shot. ‘Fat Guy Across America’ Hits New York 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z “It was the time of yuppies, so they put some yuppies in. And then they built the other side of the street and it just looked like Switzerland, all these white gables.” From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z A Deadbeat, He’ll Never Live Up to His Name The Lower East Side of Manhattan depicted in “The Trouble With Bliss” is neither the hip, bohemian enclave nor the emerging yuppie frontier of popular imagination. Movie Review: ?The Trouble With Bliss? Is a Number of Things 2012-03-22T22:46:58Z “Then we can think about the hipsters, the yuppies, the Manhattanites, and that sort of thing.” Shakespeare Troupe Starts Building Brooklyn Theater 2011-06-24T23:34:25Z Yet Hank, the other Hills and their neighbours are no Republican hicks, whatever Hank's yuppie Laotian neighbours the Souphanousinphones reckon. Your next box set: King of the Hill 2010-08-20T05:45:00Z The global health and economic issues Barfield raises are important and sincerely intended, even if it's a stretch to plunk them so personally into the living room of a pair of well-meaning, liberal American yuppies. Review: 'The Call' is a touching adoption saga 2013-04-15T02:01:06Z “They’ll go out of their way to tell me what a yuppie I am.” Pittsburgh’s Youth-Driven Food Boom 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Like the later, sociologically related terms “yuppie” and “hipster,” middlebrow is a name you would never call yourself, but rather a semantic shoe that belongs on someone else’s foot. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z "Disgraced," tells the story of a yuppie Pakistani-American lawyer and his white wife who host a dinner party that escalates into a heated discussion of race. Comedian Aasif Mandvi heads off-Broadway again 2012-07-26T17:59:11Z When the Joker murders three of Wayne's obnoxious yuppie employees, the billionaire never questions that they are innocent victims of a jealous loser. The problematic "Joker" 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z He's just so bloody beautiful and extraordinary, every one of him – from fedora-wearing hippy through various aliens, insects, ghosts, etc to the tanned blond yuppie pop star of the Serious Moonlight tour. David Bowie - Five Years; Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette – TV review 2013-05-27T06:00:13Z And on yuppies who cut in line at the movies. "Super": The sad-sack superhero indie reaches its insane apex 2011-03-31T00:31:00Z “But he’s not those things. He’s a failed yuppie. He’s not that good at it.” Peter Scolari, ‘Newhart’ and ‘Girls’ Actor, Is Dead at 66 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Stanley Kubrick filmed these scenes in London's Docklands, just before they were redeveloped into a gigantic yuppie containment unit. Full Metal Jacket: history unzipped 2010-06-24T08:46:00Z Without taking anything away from the atmosphere that the Pressmans created in the ’80s, the frenzy had a lot to do with demographics: namely, the rise of the yuppie. Barneys Remakes Itself for the New New York 2012-12-13T15:14:47Z “In the 1980s, they aimed at yuppies. I could see them taking it to the next level, to millennials, who dig social justice issues.” Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z I used to love hunting for treasure but it’s become such a miserable yuppie fest that it makes me want to hide in shame. | Sara Rotman 2010-10-20T15:28:00Z One of my single friends, living alone, points out that most of the mask-less people in the recently reopened city park near her apartment are white yuppie moms pushing kids in UPPAbaby strollers. A Mother’s Day scream into the void 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z In “Step Brothers,” he played a yuppie chucklehead, but the roles in “Party Down” and “Parks and Recreation” felt more personal. In ‘Severance,’ Adam Scott Gets to Work 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z You were fed the message that “Greed is good,” until that 1987 Black Monday made you reconsider whether you were really going to be as prosperous as your yuppie boomer predecessors. Director Michael Lehmann on why Ivanka and Kellyanne are today's "good Heathers" 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z The weekly summer concert series on the Mall outside the National Gallery of Art was traditionally a hangout for an older crowd — stroller-pushers, serious jazzheads and what we used to call yuppies. As D.C. dive bars go extinct, summer interns find Washington less welcoming 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Basically, the bassinet has become an emblem of everything there is to love and lament about the millennial yuppie parenting lifestyle. The Snoo is a $1,500 bassinet — and a touchstone for parental judgment, anxiety and privilege 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z The yuppies, ravers and curators will have to wait. 2010-01-19T18:11:00Z Mr. Clemens’s blue-collar credentials are close to impeccable, but around these hard men he’s a mewling yuppie. Books of The Times: Watching a Once-Proud Piece of Detroit Disappear 2011-01-18T16:57:38Z It was not "yuppies chugging champagne in City wine bars, toffs dancing around in puffball skirts to Duran Duran", but the miners, and Meat Is Murder, and benefit gigs for Nicaragua. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-02-10T08:00:01Z But she was disappointed: “He was this totally straight, kind of nerdy, yuppie guy.” When Patti LuPone Haunted a Laundromat 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “I was becoming a racist,” he thinks, when considering the yuppies colonizing his downtown neighborhood. ‘Me Before You,’ by Jojo Moyes, and More 2012-12-26T20:50:12Z Instead, he lazily plucked the frayed strings of left-wing angst, even settling for easy name calling: “chicken-hearted Democrats,” “yuppies with clever brains and no minds.” ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z It’s natural, but do so, and miss both the fact that Bernie remains the toast of the beach and the stinging commentary on yuppie solipsism. Watch Out! Summer Means Disaster Movies 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The second act is much stronger, mainly because Norris seems on firmer ground satirizing his contemporaries — the self-involved, self-consciously liberal yuppies busily going over plans for the neighborhood’s renovation. Low Comedy, High Concept 2012-04-24T10:50:07Z When he ascends from his parents’ basement, it is not into a Benjamin-esque yuppie high-rise but a sprawling converted warehouse. ‘Wayne’s World’ & Me 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z They had a coalition of old-lady birdwatchers, yuppie environmentalists who wanted to take their kids hiking in the woods, and radical hippie environmentalists, and scientists, and all sorts of other people. Better to light a fire than curse the darkness 2011-09-14T00:14:00Z Although this is milked for its comic value, there is a fierce pride that informs it, a rejection of the yuppie values and lifestyles that still inform most premium-cable shows. What’s the best show about poverty, crime and crazy sex? It’s ‘Shameless.’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z And was that Patrick Bateman, the serial killer yuppie from Ellis's novel American Psycho, driving his father's convertible and murdering real people? Summer readings: Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 2011-08-25T08:38:22Z The yuppies, safe to say, don't come out if it well. The films that defined the Thatcher era 2013-04-08T17:40:00Z He inherits a dynasty with a ready-made audience of young adults and yuppies, the focus of almost all the brothers' films set in Italy. American youngster best part of Italian "World" 2010-12-29T23:52:31Z He thrilled himself by watching the obliteration of teenagers meddling in the occult, seeing yuppies gored, or academics rent to pieces for indulging their skepticism. Horror movies were my therapy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Even yuppies have very limited choices in the housing market, albeit far more choices than the poor. Enough with the hipster-bashing 2013-05-12T14:00:00Z Playboy was marketed at yuppies rather than hippies, and it repackaged the summer of love to a corporate readership without alienating advertisers on Madison Avenue. Hugh Hefner in six volumes 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z “Older people and children far outnumbered yuppie types,” The Times remarked at a 1991 performance in Pelham Bay Park. Celebrating 50 Years of New York Philharmonic Outdoor Concerts 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Several of them, it turns out, were dutiful yuppies who became savvy real estate investors, gaining some hands-on renovation experience along the way. Review | The Brady Bunch kids come home for HGTV’s sentimentally extreme makeover 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z She self-deprecatingly alludes to being a “bad friend” who lives with her husband in “an overpriced converted yuppie loft complex” that she despises. Alex Wagner Digs Into Her Family’s Past in ‘Futureface’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z She seems filled with resentment and class rage at her old friend Natalie’s yuppie existence. Books of The Times: ‘NW’ by Zadie Smith 2012-08-26T19:49:57Z Her tenure became synonymous with the rise of the "yuppie" and a greedy, individualistic capitalist culture that many blame today for Britain's economic woes and lack of social cohesion. Iron Lady or monster? Thatcher film stirs UK passions 2012-01-05T16:50:30Z This detail immediately establishes them as unnatural childless yuppie scum. Sympathy for Todd and Margo: Clark Griswold’s childless yuppie scum neighbors are holiday heroes 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Most people made up their minds about Patrick Bateman and his murderous progress through the New York yuppie scene long ago. Guardian book club: Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho 2010-07-14T09:13:00Z “Is this what a city motorcycle gang is like, a bunch of yuppie guys?” ‘Fat Guy Across America’ Hits New York 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Here an attractive young couple who have retired from the C.I.A. to spend more time together embark on the fantasy Plan B career of so many overburdened yuppies: gourmet food. Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z “I wanted to say, ‘I’m no yuppie, I’m broke!’ The Interloper on Avenue B 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Larry’s dad arrives with non-prison coffee, and it’s as if Piper can taste how close she is to returning to her Brooklyn yuppie life. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Season 2 Begins in a More Menacing World 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z When he moves his wife, stepdaughter and son to a stately old mansion in Surrey, the veneer on their yuppie life starts to fade. Jude Law, Carrie Coon on the moody marital drama ‘The Nest’ 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z To his critics, Schnabel was synonymous with the decade’s excess, yuppie culture and penchant for vapid self-aggrandising. Julian Schnabel: ‘Why can’t a white person tell the story of a black person? Everyone is pink inside’ 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Philip and I met at Princeton — two ambiguously exotic, international business types, headed for New York and doing a very good job of seeming like American yuppies. Divorce from my best friend 2013-02-12T01:00:00Z But, as geographers have pointed out for some time, it also requires disinvestment: neighborhoods decline, in part, because of state neglect, and yuppies rush in where planners fear to tread. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Kip, the yuppie who mostly lives in Chicago with his wife, Felicia, can still pass as a hometown boy. Books of The Times: ‘Shotgun Lovesongs,’ Nickolas Butler’s Debut Novel 2014-03-09T19:24:51Z I live with a bunch of yuppies and models. Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins' 2010-08-05T20:29:00Z Beck's protagonist is Noah Gardner, a Manhattan yuppie with a corner office at his father's high-powered p.r. firm. Glenn Beck's Thriller Mixes Romance, Tea-Party Politics 2010-06-16T08:30:00Z Healey hangs out in her "hub" – a live/work warehouse space straight out of a yuppie fantasy. TV OD with Michael Hogan – Cherry Healey: How To Get A Life 2012-06-15T23:05:00Z Giving away perfectly good stuff meant I was some kind of soulless yuppie. How hoarding shows cured my hoarding 2010-04-10T23:01:00Z The 1991 novel - later made into a 2000 movie starring Christian Bale - chronicles a homicidal New York yuppie who is obsessed with high-end clothes and beauty products as he slashes his way through Manhattan. Musical of 'American Psycho' to debut in London 2013-04-19T22:52:08Z He’d be great at terrorizing a couple yuppies and threatening to steal their baby. Basic instincts: how the erotic thriller went black to the future 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Hippies and yuppies, Blond implies, unwittingly conspired to turn poor Britons into consumer slaves, chasing material gratification with their meagre wages and taking false spiritual solace in the sensory oblivion of drugs and alcohol. Back from the Brink by Peter Snowdon; Red Tory by Phillip Blond 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Mr. Ellis added: “During that time, the end of the ’80s and yuppies and into the dot-com era, Brad was very chill and serene. In the Gritty New York of the ’70s and ’80s, Not Exactly a Model Life 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z “It’s taken a hit. I call it the Tryst-ification of the neighborhood,” he says, referring to Tryst, the popular yuppie coffeehouse. Is Adams Morgan D.C.’s last funky neighborhood? Or past its prime? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z But Esquire has already survived the Great Depression, World War II, disco, yuppies and the dot-com bust. As Men Are Canceled, So Too Their Magazine Subscriptions 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z “It’s not like it’s this lovingly restored, yuppie, crafted cocktails kind of place,” she continued, referring to the Pavilion. Nitehawk Prospect Park Is Finally Ready, Promising Art-House Movies (and Cleaner Floors) 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z He morphs from a hippie into a yuppie of the worst variety: one who talks about having been a hippie. Newly Released Books 2011-04-20T22:05:44Z Two decades later, the filmmaker would translate Nora Ephron's caustically hilarious treatise on broken relationships for the yuppie class in "Heartburn." Mike Nichols' incisive, touching films got personal 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “The passion for Things and the hunger to acquire them are deeply rooted in yuppie culture,” he writes. Review: Michael Kinsley, Bringing Boomers News From the Final Frontier 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z The tarry pitch of the timber port never disappeared; it just got plastered over with grunge flannel, tech money, yuppie coffee, Pacific Rim flavors, and more recently the backyard chickens and chard of urban pioneers. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Seattle 2011-03-24T19:18:50Z He and the Heathers are all, in a sense, versions of Patrick Bateman, Ellis’s yuppie sociopath. “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z “No matter how many yuppies come up here, no matter how many bistros open up, it’s always going to be Harlem.” Arts & Leisure: Richard Price and CBS?s Harlem Crime Drama ?NYC-22? 2012-04-05T16:11:57Z Mr. Pita, fluent in English and backed by strong support from younger Thais, appears in public as a jovial yuppie brimming with bright ideas, confident that he can overcome the constitutional hurdles in his path. Thailand’s road back to democratic rule faces key test 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Like many of that vintage, the hippie eventually turned yuppie. Doe Bay celebrates 20 years of rustic chic 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z “I was not interested in creating co-living spaces for yuppies living in Berlin,” she said. ‘Mommunes’: Mothers are living single together 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Judge came up with the original concept at a time when TV was filled with yuppies — “The Cosby Show,” “Family Ties,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and “Mad About You.” Beavis and Butt-Head return as wonderfully moronic as ever 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z By the mid 1990s, it was a phenomenon — what one writer for The New York Times called “a high octane snack for yuppies and fitness freaks.” Are protein bars actually good for you — or just glorified candy bars? 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z “But now Carhartt is one of those brands all the yuppies wear.” Democrats See a Blueprint in Fetterman’s Victory in Pennsylvania 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Unlike hippies, however, yuppies were viewed as being materialistic and obsessed with image, comfort, and economic prosperity. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z It was the gateway drug of choice for the yuppie generation. The unofficial suit of L.A. is Italian — and it won the city over by not pandering 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Much as yuppies endlessly relived the 1960s throughout the 1980s and 1990s, millennials and younger Gen X are looking back at their youth and wondering: Why did we ever put up with this? How Abercrombie & Fitch became 'what discrimination looks like' 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z They distilled the excesses and anxieties of yuppie culture into psychosexually messy yet stylized commercial products, before fizzling out in the aughts. Why I Love Erotic Thrillers 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Protesters screamed “Kill yuppies!” not far from the Christodora, a building that had once been a settlement house but two years earlier had been converted to luxury condominiums. Decades After the Destruction of Homeless Camps, What Have We Learned? 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z So from that Sonny Bono beach bum guy, he becomes the icon for being a yuppie. Inside the off-court drama that made the Showtime Lakers 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z A close-knit group of Black yuppies chill at their favorite wine bar in the new L.A.-set sitcom “Grand Crew.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Witcher,’ BTS, holiday movies and more 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z These tensions reconcile in all sorts of biker cultures — the urban dirt biker, the cafe-racing yuppie — but Sturgis is unique in selling the fantasy of a subculture based on the dominant one. I Fell in Love With Motorcycles. But Could I Ever Love Sturgis? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z But new viewers don’t identify with those characters; instead, they see in them their parents, whose HBO login they stole, or the rich friend’s parents whose login they stole, or just some yuppie Boomer nitwits. Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’? 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Some commentators have described an alliance of the two parties as one between hippies and yuppies. German Greens leadership steel party for government 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z The group of friends — about 10 people, some with dogs — said the man argued with them briefly before attacking them, angered by the presence of “yuppies with dogs” on the boulevard. Motorist angered by ‘yuppies with dogs’ at picnic in Chicago jumped curb, hit group 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Another modern, and whimsical, touch is the so-called businessman or yuppie gargoyle, depicting a Gothic creature with sideburns and holding a briefcase. Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel gets seat at National Cathedral 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z These establishments have gained traction in pop culture and attract yuppies, who after a long day in the city depend on new immigrants to soak their feet and undo the stress of their demanding jobs. Opinion | What the hardworking women at massage businesses do for the people who know them best 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z A Wall Street yuppie hunted by mobsters hides out as a student in his nerdy cousin’s high school. Movies on TV this week: "Pulp Fiction"; "My Fair Lady" and more 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The ’80s and ’90s were a heyday for movies about terrorized yuppies, in the mode of “Fatal Attraction,” “Single White Female” and “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.” How Nicole Kidman's rich white women took over television 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Two West Coast yuppies sell everything, buy a huge motor home and set out to do some real living. Movies on TV this week, Sept. 13: 'The Silence of the Lambs' 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z “You’ve got the original yuppies who don’t like the new yuppies,” she said. ‘He’s Buying Up Brixton’: Beloved Grocer’s Eviction Sparks Gentrification Fight 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z How many yuppie New York allusions can you spot? "Self Care" by Leigh Stein review 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z The highway had been expanded, and now the Valley was growing popular with “yuppies in Seattle. They like to wheel and deal and sell property and have their little institutes.” From his rustic cabin, 85-year-old geologist and artist Jack Holden has his offbeat off-the-grid lifestyle down to a science 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z A guilty Wall Street yuppie moves in with his parents to take care of them in their old age. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, May 24, 2020 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z A yuppie loses his job in New Jersey and moves his wife and family to Boise, Idaho. Movies on TV this week, Sept. 13: 'The Silence of the Lambs' 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z “Succession” fans will be gratified by a hat-tip to Cox’s character in that show, when an inebriated Rory encounters a couple of yuppie punters. New movies to stream this week: ‘A White, White Day,’ ‘The Quarry’ and more 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Obnoxious relatives and neighbors wear out their welcome in the new home of a yuppie couple. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z A Manhattan yuppie enters dark SoHo, led by strange women into the urban unknown. Movies on TV this week: March 15: 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' on Freeform; Raiders of the Lost Ark and more 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Neuroses and angst fill Manhattan yuppie best friends on the eve of one’s wedding. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z I got shoulder pads and yuppies rather than love beads and hippies. Column: Relax, boomers. You're OK, just old 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z A fast-lane stranger befriends a Los Angeles yuppie and slowly makes his life a lurid nightmare. Movies on TV this week: 'Casablanca,' 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'The Terminator' and more 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z AR: The obvious comparison point might be a film like American Psycho, which teases the idea that we can’t tell whether its protagonist Patrick Bateman is a sociopathic fantasist yuppie or a mass murderer. Question Club: the best and worst Joker debate topics 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Rural Texas cannibals waylay yuppie motorists driving from Los Angeles to Florida. Movies on TV for Oct. 6-12: 'Throne of Blood' and more 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z San Francisco yuppies restore a costly Victorian, then rent a studio to a landlord’s nightmare. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z An eager yuppie and his wife adopt a little boy, Junior, who’s totally out of control. Movies on TV this week Sept. 15, 2019: 'Alien,' 'Aliens' and more 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The battered wife of a yuppie neat-freak fakes her death at sea and flees from Cape Cod to Iowa. Movies on TV this week Sept. 8, 2019 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z A would-be yuppie from Kansas sorts mail in Manhattan but pretends to be a corporate executive. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z A restless yuppie copywriter marries his teenage sweetheart, then wonders if it’s a mistake. Movies on TV for Oct. 6-12: 'Throne of Blood' and more 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z A slain Manhattan yuppie reaches out to his lover, with a medium as his middlewoman. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Aug. 4-10, 2019 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z A yuppie adman faces his parents’ separation and his father’s need for a major operation. Movies on TV this week Sept. 15, 2019: 'Alien,' 'Aliens' and more 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z A heavenly panel must decide whether a deceased yuppie should be granted eternal happiness or be sent back to Earth. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 28 - Aug. 3, 2019 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z “Every individual has a little Yippie and yuppie within,” Mr. Krassner told the Tribune on the 20th anniversary of the convention protests, still yearning for a social transformation that never quite came to pass. Paul Krassner, countercultural ringmaster and leader of the Yippies, dies at 87 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z A mentally unhinged yuppie in 1980s New York submits to an uncontrollable bloodlust. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 21 - 27, 2019 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z When even us yuppies can't afford houses because of supply constraints, who will buy your houses and lead local community institutions someday? Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z He said the town had changed “drastically” in recent years, becoming “a lot more yuppie.” Meet the Curiosity-Seekers and Die-Hards at the Last True Blockbuster 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “Buy one. Get one free,” he quipped, setting off a national argument that saw her branded as “the yuppie wife from hell” and “Lady Macbeth of Arkansas.” Opinion | The true running mates of 2020 deserve a better script 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Patient advocates say the condition has a history of being dismissed as “yuppie flu” or plain indolence. Special Report: Online activists are silencing us, scientists say 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The reasonably robust crowd consisted of North Korean yuppies, their ties and Mao collars loosened after a long day at work. Shopping in Pyongyang, and Other Adventures in North Korean Capitalism 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “At the end of the day,” he says, “all we really did was keep yuppies warm and dry.” Toxic Smoke Is Africa’s Quiet Killer. An Entrepreneur Says His Fix Can Make a Fortune 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z That, in his estimation, the term “yuppie” had lost descriptive traction decades ago? “Show Recent Some Love” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z And he has no time for yuppies who roll in from the city looking for pretty baubles with neatly written price tags. Antiques dealer focuses on all things Nevada, the Wild West 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z We are not all former yuppies who are retiring from six-figure salaries. Opinion | Are Baby Boomers Being Selfish? 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z The urgency felt like the addict is like the yuppie taking their wine home from Whole Foods and popping the cork for dinner. Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z He didn’t know the guy, so he shouted: “Go home, yuppie!” Red Hook: the hip New York enclave caught between gentrification and climate change 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Up the coast from San Francisco, Seattle is attempting to deal with its own yuppie influx, as tech giants such as Amazon transform the “Rainy City’s” housing market - and fast. Minneapolis looks to build out of its housing crisis 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Arizona has become awash with newcomers, including many California retirees, yuppies and Hispanics who can’t afford the progressive paradise next door. Arizona Republicans Brace for a Storm 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z While ballroom culture sizzled uptown, there was also the rise of the yuppie Trump era and the excess of a different kind coming together farther downtown. Strike a 'Pose.' Here's a look at the fashion from Ryan Murphy's FX drama 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z They were like yuppie couples who decided the schools in their edgy neighborhood weren’t good enough for their precious offspring. Perspective | Duck, duck, geese: It’s the time of year when waterways are full of water birds 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Today, Mount Vernon Triangle most directly competes for residents with the yuppie enclave of Clarendon in Virginia, according to the neighborhood’s Community Improvement District. A D.C. strip club reopens to a changed neighborhood — of high-end condos and artisanal toast 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z If there’s enough space for the rich newbies in these sleek, upscale “yuppie fish tanks,” he argues, they’re less likely to disturb longtime residents in established neighborhoods. Minneapolis looks to build out of its housing crisis 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z The argument is that the arrival of yuppie professionals sipping kombucha will alter the character of a place in an unseemly way. In praise of gentrification 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “It’s all yuppies and kids in strollers and all of that — and a few old codgers,” Crowley, 82, said over a recent lunch. Opinion | The Extinction of Gay Identity 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z He went on: “Everybody from slackers to yuppies carefully ‘curates’ their outward appearance.” Mark Zuckerberg’s I’m Sorry Suit 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z “These people didn’t run away from a bloody regime,” said Anna Chernova, a project manager at a Russian-language magazine that hosted a party last week for Russian yuppies in London’s hip Shoreditch neighborhood. For Many Russians in London, Spy Poisoning Is a Blast From Another World 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z But constructing new homes - yuppie fish tanks or otherwise - is a contentious thing. Minneapolis looks to build out of its housing crisis 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “He would always talk about the yuppie people moving to the Lower East Side,” his son Dominic said. A Joyful Homecoming Cut Short 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z I have gone down to the park next to yuppies at Pike Place Market looking for a 12-year-old who was supposed to be at my shelter instead of getting high with her mom’s friends. A Homeless Camp in Our Back Yard? Please, a University Says 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Put aside, colorful though they make this article, the peculiar cultural affectations of affluent hipsters, yuppies, and instant tech multi-millionaires. When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z They were yuppies, climbing the career success ladder. Michigan man ends 40-year career as a pastor 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z The people don’t get much wackier than in “Yer So Bad,” which pretty forcefully conveyed the band’s disdain for yuppies. Tom Petty made amazing music videos. Here are nine of the best. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Her biggest goal for the film is to combat the stigma around her disease, which is described in interspersed news clips as “the yuppie flu” by Larry King and “a made-up condition” by Katie Couric. Jennifer Brea documented her chronic fatigue syndrome on an iPhone so doctors would believe other women 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The June 30 Weekend ranking of the area’s best barbecue, “Right on ’cue,” seemed to concentrate on upscale yuppie places. Opinion | Don’t let upscale barbecue places hog the spotlight 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z A yuppie varnish coats Ruben Ostlund’s new movie, “The Square,” with not a blemish or imperfection on its many sleek spaces. Cannes 2017: In ‘The Square,’ moral dilemmas as cinematic experience 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z A Brazilian immigrant who once scoffed at the yuppies who walked by her dance studio told the Times, “I cannot abandon ship; this is my home more than ever.” Perspective | Now, more than ever, ‘now more than ever’ needs to go 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z When I was a kid, in the eighties, Rolex was shorthand for “yuppie.” Confessions of a Watch Geek 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z In fostering such a retro, fashionable aesthetic, aren’t these churches catering for the yuppies and hipsters whose arrival is sending property prices sky-rocketing? Would Jesus be a gentrifier? How Christianity is embracing urban renewal 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The whole "quality of life" argument, and the ability of young, physically healthy, yuppies to define other people's "quality of life" should alarm everyone, because it IS a silppery slope. Physician Aid in Dying Gains Acceptance in the U.S. 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z A salesman at the family car dealership, he’s the yuppie type Lezlie disdains, or, at least, he aspires to be: he and Tawney share a McMansion decorated in pastels. “Rectify” Is a Quiet Marvel 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z The solution can’t be pining for old neighborhoods, sneering at yuppies, and vilifying social planners. Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z We went from hippies to yuppies to dot-commers in several amazing decades. Aging Solo: Okay, I don’t have a child to help me, but I do have a plan 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z But, at the same time, his original critique points out one aspect of the film that works against its “yuppie winsomeness” tone: Stand by Me at 30: 'Maybe This Is How Rambo Discovered Puberty' 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The hippies call the youngsters yuppies, the Williamsburghers think the hippies are stuck in the past. Pyrotechnic Party of Legend, Killed Off by Social Media 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z And just like that, we started to click – two yuppies destined to be together. I'm a serial dater. And I'm grateful to all the guys who never call me back 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z We live with the consequences of slippage, called by many ugly names, with “yuppie” usually thrown in for good measure. Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z “In the 1980s, they aimed at yuppies. I could see them taking it to the next level, to millennials, who dig social-justice issues.” The slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Sometimes Pennebaker and Hegedus play the campaign’s yuppie aggression for comedy, but they also understand the depths of the transformation it undertook. Hillary Clinton, After the Clintonites 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Did the materialism of the yuppie ’80s prompt Americans to view their partners as just another consumer choice? Let’s talk about dating — seriously. 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z These conflicted residents who help form D.C.’s yuppie subculture are the main targets of the new satirical website Stuck in DC, the District’s less viral and more local version of the Onion. D.C. gets its own satirical news website. Its target is the city’s latest wave of yuppies. 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The film begins with a segment in which a group of office clerks in a small accounting firm rebel against their emotionlessly efficient, yuppie corporate masters. Editorials from around New England 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z We’re two very ineffectual, frightened, angry yuppies going at each other -- pulling hair and wanting to run away at the same time. The oral history of 'Bridget Jones's Diary' from Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and more 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z I now live in San Francisco and whenever someone asked, “How are you?” my reply was the standard Silicon Valley yuppie salute: “Good! Super busy!” Why Your Friendships Make You Happier, According to Science 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z “So I wonder what’s next — will NIH researchers by spying on yuppies drinking craft beers in their living rooms to prevent abuse?” Golden Hammer: Government drops $1.6 million to study ‘troublesome problem’ of malt liquor 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Twenty-five years ago — on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1991 — viewers of ABC’s existential yuppie drama “thirtysomething” readied our Kleenex boxes for what we all thought would be a real weeper of an episode. ‘Thirtysomething’ killed off Gary 25 years ago. Now TV characters drop dead all the time. 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Monty Python’s “yuppie corporate masters” are much akin to our federal government, perceived as cold and unfeeling for the problems of everyday Americans. Editorials from around New England 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Many left-wingers in Berlin, where squatting has a long and vibrant tradition, feel they are entitled to defend their way of living and that burning the luxury cars will scare away yuppies and wealthy investors. No VWs for this gang: Bicycling arsonists in Berlin target Mercedes, BWMs and Porsches 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z The study authors said this dispelled the commonly held view that CFS/ME was a "middle-class" illness, or "yuppie flu". Chronic fatigue syndrome on rise among 16-year-olds - BBC News 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The ultimate yuppie muppet probably lives in an organic compost bin. It’s easy to be grouchy about HBO’s new Sesame Street 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z I am not interested in created a yuppie town. 'Everything has changed' in downtown L.A., Central City Assn. chief Carol Schatz says 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Not to mention all of the Californian yuppies. In New Era for Marijuana, New York Smokers Get Bolder 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Even the music scene, which had withered, is recovering as Congolese musicians flock back from Europe to play for local yuppies. Will Kabila go? 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z In multicultural Stockholm, bien-pensant yuppies anxiously confess that childhood friends now support the SD. The march of Europe’s little Trumps 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The bench sits in the heart of Massachusetts Avenue, a neighborhood of both Starbucks yuppies and those, like Scott, who ask them for change and leftovers. Controversial ‘Homeless Jesus’ sculpture invites debate 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z DeLorean’s distinctive gull-wing architecture and stainless steel body didn’t look like the Chevy Cavaliers and Ford Escorts that dominated the roads, nor the BMW 3 Series favored by a nation of yuppies. Why do we love the DeLorean? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Jogging through a now gentrified neighbourhood – which you helped “settle” by the way – only to be halted by some yuppie poseur who rammed his baby stroller into you. Angry runner screams insults at 'white privilege' couple with baby stroller 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The waterfront became a political battlefield in the late 1980s after condos were built on some wharves, raising concerns that the port would become a yuppie playground that would muscle out fishermen. Tourism, businesses find uneasy balance at New England ports 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Gene Bruns, a councilman, spoke of food trucks attracting “the sort of yuppie set,” and said some high schoolers “feel that these food trucks are a cool thing.” Food Truck Controversy Hits a Missouri Town Seeking Growth 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Set in 1980s New York, “Ten Thousand Saints” takes a wistful look at the era before yuppies took over and cleaned up the place. In ‘Ten Thousand Saints,’ the big city is the star of the show 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z "You sound like all the yuppies who want to get the homeless out of here and make it look pretty," Les tells Jude when the latter complains of Tompkins Square's unruliness. 'Ten Thousand Saints' recalls violent clash of cultures in 1988 New York 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z One thing yuppie clowns hate is being called babies, unless they thought you were calling them “baby” as in Baby from Dirty Dancing. Angry runner screams insults at 'white privilege' couple with baby stroller 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z What do you get when you combine an insufferable hipster with a materialistic, ultra-ambitious yuppie? The Yuccie and 2 Dozen Other Ways to Categorize Millennials 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z The town may be picturesque, with its cobblestones and its ancient abbey, but it’s full of Babbitts and vipers, junkies and yuppies, and, in Rowling’s biting portrait, there’s no way to escape the small-town claustrophobia. Thomas Cromwell, TV’s Latest Anti-Hero 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z "The masters of the '30s and '40s trained in gyms like this. Now it's all yuppies with their conditioning coaches. Those guys would eat the new boxers alive." Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s old Vegas gym is itching for his next big fight 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The remaining squatters next door shouted “Die yuppie scum!” in the mornings. A Costly but Valuable Lesson in Debt and Self-Confidence 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Sometimes I Sit and Think’s opener "Elevator Operator" has a yuppie named Paul ripping up his tie on the way to work, resolving instead to lose his mind someplace other than his desk. Courtney Barnett does lyrical gymnastics while keeping both feet on the ground 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z I live in the liberal bubble of Park Slope, Brooklyn, where no yuppie would ever admit to wanting their kid to be anything in particular, other than happy. I’m gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Expect lots of turtlenecks, B-list celebrities, and nauseating promotional videos of yuppies happily using their gadgets with xylophone music chiming in the background. Hidden Gems to Look for at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The music channels were perfect for college students, who responded favorably to anything mocking yuppies, and the CNN audience, while yuppies themselves, were buying the group’s records. 80s Nostalgia: 'BizRock' Band VPs Films With Reagan Jr., Makes TV Commercial 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z While the band did the yuppie thing by day, their music more than questioned that lifestyle, sometimes even biting the hands that fed them. Recording 1988 Biz-Rock Album 'Annual Report': In-Studio With The VPs 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z There's probably some yuppie sitting in Silicon Valley making Big Brother judgments they've no moral right to make. Facebook Page Goes Dark, Angering Russia Dissidents 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z "Port Melbourne used to be a really dodgy area. Now, it's really trendy. It's full of yuppies in apartments and soccer moms. The image of it is the conservative pretty area," Skopellos said. Australian's rainbow fence has officials seeing red, orange, yellow... 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Behind the redbrick factory facades of nearby Bradford Street, the yuppies are also taking over, quietly occupying new flats within. Heading north 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z For new residents, these places embody an alternative to yuppie Chicago: historic architecture instead of cookie-cutter construction, authentic neighborhoods instead of ritzy ones. What happens when housing for the poor is remodeled as luxury studios Enjoy these high-priced tidbits and sports tickets, yuppies and other upper-bracket folk. Will the LeBron James Stimulus Be Good for Cleveland? 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Add a wool hat and your seasonal yuppie costume is complete. New York Today: Ghoulish Pleasures 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Enough with the yuppies — this new Bunker Hill apartment building is for grown-ups. Developer of new Bunker Hill apartment high-rise woos older residents 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z He has courted Reagan Democrats, soccer moms, baby boom yuppies, tech workers and millennials on his own behalf and for his wife. A Record of Resilience at Vanguard of American Presidential Politics 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z The alley where Thomas died is now sandwiched between a yuppie bar and a refurbished, upscale apartment complex. Cincinnati still healing from its riots, and has lessons to share with Ferguson "The new generation had renounced the world in return for simplicity and self-sufficiency," he writes in both diagnosis and condemnation of the Eighties yuppies who had allowed cities like St. Louis to deteriorate. Grasping Ferguson Through Franzen: St. Louis and Its ‘Tragic Glory’ His Instagram feed looks like that of a yuppie backpacker, featuring exotic vacation sunsets and a video showing his followers how to brew organic Costa Rican coffee using a sock as a filter. Bain Deal Makes TOMS Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie A $300 Million Man 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z In the mid-1980s, a dark cloud appeared over the economic future of young Boomers: Beneath that Beemer-and-Sharper Image exterior, these yuppies were in trouble. Are You Born To Be Better Off Than Your Parents? (Part 1 of "Generations in Pursuit of the American Dream") 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But Japanese yuppies and college students find the cost worthwhile to watch bikini-clad women direct battles between large female robots while stage hands dressed as ninjas assist offstage. Tokyo's Robot Restaurant Boasts Fembot Battles and Ninja Stage Hands 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The Skyline closed a decade ago, replaced by a succession of forgettable yuppie eateries. Soup Burg Closes on Upper East Side 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “The yuppie will still do yoga,” he said. Objections to D.C. Council’s package of tax changes mount While city rich kids and Wall Street yuppies flashed there brick-sized phones, the commodity the rest of us traded in was fantasy – not as escapism, but as statement. Choose life! Why video games could do with a 1980s' touch 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z However, excluding the smarter parts of Hove and Brighton, all the most popular area for yuppies are in London. Property hotspots for 'yuppies' 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Then in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mr. McHugh said, “rental buildings were becoming co-ops and condos, there was the first yuppie invasion, and suddenly we realized we had a new client base.” Downtown Food Goes North 2014-03-28T20:43:45Z Daniel Luzer has a Washington Monthly article about members of the Robertson clan back in the 1990s, when they were golf-playing yuppies. What in the world? 2014-01-10T16:31:44Z Apparently the Robertson boys are yuppies dressing up as rednecks for profit, and A&E is laughing with them all the way to the bank. 2013: The year in whiteness 2013-12-30T20:30:00Z The stampeding yuppie army behind these trends drove up sales revenue by 52 percent last year, the company reports. The Cult of Vitamix 2013-12-19T10:53:44Z Young urban professionals - a group known back in the 1980s as "yuppies" - are flocking to a limited number of property hotspots, says new research. Property hotspots for 'yuppies' 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z “It was the yuppie era,” said Glenn O’Brien, who wrote the copy for many of the company’s best-known ads. Barneys Plans to Reclaim Its Chelsea Location and Expand Downtown by 2017 2013-12-18T23:00:08Z The first J.Crew catalog arrived in American homes in 1983, filled with glossy photos of rosy-cheeked yuppies in ruffled blouses and pea coats. The J.Crew Invasion 2013-11-27T11:00:05Z "All the yuppies came in and that changed everything." In New York, RVs are one answer to soaring rents 2013-11-17T13:00:00Z On the day Apple released its new iPhone 5C simultaneously in the U.S. and China, I tromped around Beijing asking yuppies, restaurant workers, and migrant street sweepers what kind of phones they use—and why. In Beijing, the New IPhone Gets a Resounding 'Meh' 2013-09-11T16:44:36Z It also shows that when yuppies buy a property, they pay a typical premium of as much as 63% over other homes in the same city. Property hotspots for 'yuppies' 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The interesting question is explaining the latter part—why are yuppies now so determined to move back into the inner city neighbourhoods they once shunned? London's demography: Gentrification blues 2013-08-09T14:00:33Z On the other hand, yuppies like me are moving in in ever greater numbers, buying up properties for ever higher prices. London's demography: Gentrification blues 2013-08-09T14:00:33Z Indeed, many Chinese are far wealthier: There are over one million millionaires in China, and many Chinese can afford all the trappings of Western yuppies. China’s Chicken-and-Egg Problem: What Comes First, Wealth or Freedom? 2013-06-19T14:58:20Z Others worry that in a city that has proven adept at creating ghettos, Gilbert is creating a yuppie enclave, walled off from the rest of the city. Detroit's precarious recovery: 'It just feels like something is happening here' 2013-04-15T17:16:36Z This story forms the spineless spine of a larger argument about how online dating is changing the world, by which we mean yuppie romance. The Atlantic takes on the Atlantic’s take on online dating 2013-01-03T23:19:00Z And yuppie Yankee fans bought huge portions of tickets and ate the Mets fans’ lunches. Sports of The Times: Knicks-Nets Will Turn Into a Rivalry to Join New York’s Rich Past 2012-11-26T02:28:46Z The interesting question is explaining the latter part—why are yuppies now so determined to move back into the inner cities they once shunned? London's demography: Gentrification blues 2013-08-09T14:00:33Z His wife practices law, and on the blog, he describes his family as “just two more yuppies raising their kids in the most dangerous city in America.” Riff: How Detroit Became the World Capital of Staring at Abandoned Old Buildings 2012-11-09T15:38:15Z Wouldn’t the influx of wealthy, Rolex-wearing yuppies draw violent criminals seeking to rip them off? How Washington D.C. Got Off The Most Dangerous Cities List 2012-10-19T20:46:59Z But, despite this competitive field, it is Polly Peck – with its slightly ludicrous name, its rakish chief executive and its meteoric rise and fall – that best conjures up memories of the yuppie decade. Polly Peck: the South Sea Company of the 1980s 2012-08-22T18:51:32Z He left before the Mariners could extend his expiring contract and commit more millions to a 38-year-old who doesn't fit on a team of yuppies. Ichiro's exit saves Mariners pain, disappointment 2012-07-24T05:06:33Z In Brooklyn - where I've lived for several decades - hipsters and yuppies have even taken to donning the latest badge of cloying Brooklyn cool: Nets hats. City Room: A Knicks Fan Isn't Giving Up on His Team 2012-07-19T21:25:49Z Which is all fine, but the yuppie types no longer guzzle imported beers. Morning pixels: Bryce Harper always says the right thing 2012-07-16T12:58:28Z The Democrats became the snob party, the haughty party, the yuppie party, while the Republicans, remarkably, became the salt-of-the-earth lot. Mitt Romney's Bain capitalism pays dividends to Obama 2012-07-02T16:27:46Z I used to associate property speculation with rows of new yuppie flats: I now know that it can come in far more prosaic forms. The euro crisis is happening in Britain too 2012-06-11T19:00:08Z One Hasidic landlord posted a complaint on a local news Web site about the immodesty of the new “yuppies,” rallying his neighbors to take back Crown Heights. In Crown Heights, a Renaissance With Unease 2012-02-01T03:54:42Z I swat away flies to get a clearer look at my fellow diners: South Asian families spanning generations, hipsters on dates, yuppies in business casual, all feasting on generous servings of chicken makhni. India Ink: Amid the Loin's Grit, Tastes of the Subcontinent Bloom 2011-12-01T10:27:04Z In a ballpark disparaged by cross-town White Sox fans for being filled with yuppies less interested in the game than taking each others’ photos, it’s an anachronism. Losing games is one thing, but Cubs fans cringe at the thought of Wrigley losing its Old Style 2011-09-04T16:17:20Z It's an anachronism to the frequent criticism from crosstown White Sox fans that Wrigley is filled with yuppies less interested in the game than taking photos of one another. Cubs fans worry about losing _ Old Style beer 2011-09-04T16:16:13Z Beebe: The notion that solar is green window-dressing for liberal yuppies is as outdated as the idea that Pluto is a planet. Suntech Executive Says Solar Energy Will Deliver. Do You Agree? 2011-08-22T20:22:04Z I was so excited to see the enthusiasm in a group that ranged from working class fanboys to middle class yuppies. Comic-Con 2011 was awesome! 2011-08-01T14:20:27Z To hear him surrounded by the yuppie bustle that has supplanted much of the punk ethos in this area is to know what “incongruous” means. City Critic: Walk This Way: The Punk Tour 2011-06-18T00:17:50Z Once mobiles had been bricks carried by annoying yuppies; then they became shiny things owned by techie friends. iPad 2 ? just another disappointing love affair? 2011-03-25T16:03:38Z "Prostate cancer pathogen may be behind the disease once dubbed 'yuppie flu'," Nature announced on its news website the day the paper came out. Virology: Fighting for a cause 2011-03-16T18:20:36.917Z The tea shop craze arguably started in 2003 with the opening of Argo Tea's tearoom in Chicago's yuppie Lincoln Park neighborhood. Tea Is Hot, from Trendy Teahouses to Starbucks 2011-01-27T22:00:00Z “I really think I’m chipping away,” Mr. Vollo, 56, said of the blue-collar aversion to yoga as stuff for hipsters, yuppies and space cadets. Using Yoga to Help Cabdrivers Relax Body and Mind 2011-01-28T19:26:36Z When the pessimists dreamed of China they did not see Pudong’s glittering skyline, but newly built ghost cities hidden in the hinterland and yuppies drowning in debt. Shorting China: Waiting for the great fall 2011-01-20T10:43:36Z By the late 1980s, after its conversion to condominiums, it became a target as the “Die, yuppie scum” building — a phrase that gained currency during the Tompkins Square Park rioting. | Tompkins Square Park: Grit, Glam and Green, in One Vibrant Package 2010-11-20T19:09:00Z Want to avoid the 21-year-old crowd? 4th and 2nd streets are the cool yuppie hangouts. Dandy Dozen: Best College Football Towns 2010-10-08T16:19:00Z The expression young and posh is British, intended to convey the concept of a woman who is fashionable, chic and upscale; perhaps the closest equivalent in American English would be yuppie. Advertising: Glamour Promotes Its Brand and Its Readers 2010-09-08T00:42:00Z The market has failed to supply them, partly because of restrictive planning rules and partly because housebuilders got caught up in the buy-to-let bubble, making heaps of one-bed yuppie flats that no one wants. Tinkering with tenancy is no solution to the housing shortage 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z But it's also a choice made the world over by yuppies who don't want their freedom and finances compromised by the pitter-patter of too many little feet. Commentary: How China Has Pruned Its Families' Trees 2010-07-08T09:30:00Z Congo, then, is not a place you'd normally associate with a yuppie. China's New Focus on Africa 2010-06-25T05:45:00Z Her compatriots who live in the neighborhood call them lots of things: yuppies, guppies and Village people. Honoring Saints in Changing Brooklyn Neighborhood 2010-06-07T02:42:00Z In 2006, the telltale sign was yuppies in suits in Midtown Manhattan pubs screaming at the television set at the strategy of Bruce Arena, the American coach. Sports of The Times: Live on ESPN, It?s the U.S. World Cup Roster 2010-05-27T01:00:00Z What had been a free thing of youth has become a commodity marketed to yuppies, complete with must-have gear and must-obey rules. A Cycling Snob Unmasked 2010-03-29T21:15:00Z From the moment Glenn Close brewed up rabbit stew for Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction, the yuppie thriller became a staple of late 80s/early 90s cinema. Return of the yuppie revenge thriller | Benjamin Lee 2010-03-25T16:52:00Z Some of them changed their tunes and became yuppies and went on the lecture circuit telling everyone how stupid they'd been, talking about how good greed was and how dumb they'd been. Little Brother While we loathed the obnoxious perfection of the yuppies, who of us didn't also secretly covet it? Return of the yuppie revenge thriller | Benjamin Lee 2010-03-25T16:52:00Z As we find ourselves coming out of another economic squeeze, the yuppie nightmare seems to be making another curious comeback. Return of the yuppie revenge thriller | Benjamin Lee 2010-03-25T16:52:00Z |
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