| 单词 | middle-class |
| 例句 | “That’s the genius of these institutions. They want the working classes, laborers. Boys who aren’t stamped by”—Herr Siedler frowns— “middle-class garbage. The cinemas and so forth. They want industrious boys. Exceptional boys.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Gone were the small-town rhythms and the day of the waterman, replaced by connections to the larger world and the vitality of middle-class dreams. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “And you know, younger black folk don’t really do code switching anymore. The middle-class kids can’t speak Ebonics and the inner-city kids speak only Ebonics and they don’t have the fluidity that my generation has.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A priest I once heard in a white middle-class parish defended the reformed liturgy by saying that it had become necessary to ‘de-Europeanize’ the Roman Catholic Church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She created the first American settlement house, a home in Chicago where poor and middle-class women lived together. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I wanted, however, something more from the new middle-class institution than either the decadent romanticism of the sixties or the careerism of the seventies. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, most operas were written to be popular, middle-class entertainments, and artists such as Liszt and Paganini enjoyed rock-star-like fame and popularity in their day. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Among the middle-class and black professional community of southeastern Virginia, however, word traveled like wildfire: Mrs. Vaughans office is hiring. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As a Catholic schoolboy, I was educated a middle-class American. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I selected an episode of Family Ties, an ’80s sitcom about a middle-class family living in central Ohio. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The well-dressed woman was “the epitome of what we were fighting,” McCain recalls thinking: white, middle-class, old, and probably set in her ways. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she drives by her dream house on Greenwood in the comfortably middle-class neighborhood of Chatham. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z At a time when many middle-class children and parents grow distant, apart, no longer speak, romantic solutions appeal. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Today you are more likely to find commentary on their “disappearance,” either as a supposed demographic reality or as a shortcoming of the middle-class imagination. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At Berkeley, that institution which symbolizes middle-class opportunity, students complained about the impersonal life on the campus—they were being reduced to IBM numbers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The shop was in a middle-class neighborhood of Oaxaca city, in southern Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The truth was that I was a successful teacher of white middle-class students. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Many Progressives—who tended to be middle-class white Protestants—held deep prejudices against immigrants and blacks and were so convinced of their own virtuous authority that they disdained democratic procedures. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was mostly wealthy or middle-class whites who could afford to move or send their children to private schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m careful to paint a picture of myself as gente de close, a middle-class mestizo girl from a nice family with a rustic home in the country. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In Lareau’s words, the middle-class children learn a sense of “entitlement.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Partly the problem is that we’re young, for middle-class people, to have kids as old as Will and Anna,” Justice said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Our last great middle-class hero, someone who really enjoyed his vacations and his country club, was John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom, and he died a premature death. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z People who grow up poor, fatherless, and buffeted by racism don’t have the same commitment to social norms as those from healthy middle-class homes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon I became as Americanized as my classmates—most of whom were two or three generations removed from their immigrant ancestors, and all of whom were children of middle-class parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he gazed at the people gathered around him: liberals and conservatives, blacks and whites, men and women, middle-class and poor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was a middle-class businessman who probably had little contact with Africans, and feared them in the same way as whites did. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most immigrant families successful enough to afford better—the doctors, lawyers, and businessmen—packed up and resettled in middle-class communities, usually with other families from the homeland. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The two eras were not so much in opposition as they were complementary developments, indicative of a single fact: Students at the new middle-class campus lacked deep appreciation of their social advantages. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They were middle-class people, had lived all their married lives in a butter-colored middle-class ranch house in a stolid, middle-class town. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He has middle-class ornaments, like a cellphone and a DVD player, but no driver’s license or Social Security card. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I do not doubt that middle-class blacks need to remain watchful when they look for jobs or try to rent or when they travel to unfamiliar towns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It would alleviate the perception of Odessa High as the “Mexican school,” which was having the inevitable effect of steering middle-class whites away from the west side. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The elite of Durham sneered openly at them whereas middle-class whites tried to put as much distance as possible between themselves and their poorer cousins. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We had black kids who were newly rich, black kids who were middle-class, and black kids from the townships. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I have always been in the lower- middle-class area,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We are just one step away from this life in a slum, all of us who live air-conditioned middle-class lives, she wrote, and wondered if Obinze would agree. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Even in fourth grade, middle-class children appeared to be acting on their own behalf to gain advantages. They made special requests of teachers and doctors to adjust procedures to accommodate their desires.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They were a classic bunch of overachievers who had become living proof of all the perceived values of white working-class and middle-class America—desire, self-sacrifice, pushing oneself beyond the expected limit. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And, unlike many middle-class children, he goes home and sees in his parents a way of life not only different but starkly opposed to that of the classroom. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite McClellan’s lack of skills or education beyond the twelfth grade, there was good reason to believe that the aluminum factory could get him into middle-class security quicker than a bachelor’s degree could, he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When he agreed to move out of the working-class neighborhood where he had been happy for years and to resettle in the middle-class apartment, he had said the same thing. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was born and raised in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, a small middle-class town forty miles outside Philadelphia. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In the era of affirmative action it became more and more difficult to distinguish the middle-class victim of social oppression from the lower-class victim. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He reproached us for being elderly middle-class intellectuals who identified with the movie’s right-wing authorities instead of with the bikers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Richton Park was nearly as grim as Caldwell, if a bit more middle-class and a lot more congested. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Being a middle-class family means that we have a lot more money and possessions than many others do. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d had many working-class white patients and some middle-class white women who thought he was handsome. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I think rather that it came in response to a middle-class crisis of faith in North America and Western Europe. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Novel reading is a middle-class pastime, which is another reason that novels have so often focused on the middle and upper classes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A few years ago he sent her a photograph of himself addressing a gathering of middle-class Punjabi widows at a spiritual camp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With its wealthy clientele, middle-class owners, and low-income workforce, 3 Guys is a template of the class divisions in America. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Not his fault. There aren’t enough middle-class black folks to go around,” Bill said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In every state across our nation, African Americans—particularly in the poorest neighborhoods—are subjected to tactics and practices that would result in public outrage and scandal if committed in middle-class white neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They looked just as Paul had intended—unified, respectable, and solidly middle-class. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A private developer wanted to build the new units on a twenty-two-acre site on Bacon Street in the middle-class section of Hayti. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z At these affairs I drank home-brewed beer, ate spaghetti and chitterlings, laughed and talked with black, southern- born girls who worked as domestic servants in white middle-class homes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Who can be surprised that the scheme has won the support of many middle-class Americans? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They lag behind the middle-class kids by only a modest amount, and, in fact, in one year, second grade, they learn more than the middle- or upper-class kids. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The situation was worst in the middle-class and poorer districts. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Aside from our money and possessions, middle-class families, from what I can see, have a lot more leisure time. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The opposing team was the AFC Lightning from Fayetteville, Georgia, a mostly white middle-class suburb south of Atlanta. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Thirty years later I write this book as a middle-class American man. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the houses were interesting as far as middle-class neighborhoods go. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The Bongers are a cultured middle-class family, wealthier than the Van Goghs. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And white middle-class teenagers continue to prove the importance of context as they try to ignore it. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It strikes me, in my middle-class solipsism, that there is gross improvidence in some of these arrangements. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She wants to bring them up to have the middle-class ease that still eludes her. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We had rich white kids, a bunch of middle-class white kids, and some working-class white kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The Johnson family were recent arrivals in their San Francisco community—a middle-class, middle-income real-estate development high in the hills north of the city. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The middle-class whites living to the east formed property owners’ protective associations to hold the line against a black “invasion.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He came from a solid middle-class family and was sent to school at Mill Hill. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Few middle-class parents would stand for their children’s being subjected to this method of teaching. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The middle-class parents talked things through with their children, reasoning with them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z This was a working-class church, a middle-class church. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z First, blacks tend to be first-generation middle class, as in Whitiker’s case, which means they have fewer resources to draw upon as they navigate the middle-class world. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She endured the stares of the middle-class teacher’s pets who looked down on her for the circuitous route that got her there. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “My wife never had to work. I was right in the middle of middle-class America and I knew it and I loved it.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Here is the life of a middle-class man. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z During those years when middle-class black Americans began to assert with pride, ‘Black is beautiful,’ I was able to regard my complexion without shame. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Like so many, they had slipped, in a few short years, from a comfortable, secure middle-class existence to one in which every dime seemed harder to come by than the one before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Things most middle-class children wouldn’t trouble to notice, I studied. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It is this kind of guidance that distinguishes middle-class children from children of working-class and poor families, according to sociologists who have studied how social class affects child-rearing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z From this profoundly instructive trauma, I learned to assume the permanent possibility that, however solid the middle-class reinforcements, race could trump class in my life experience. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She has become keenly aware that what middle-class comforts she does enjoy are built on uncertain scaffolding. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I suppose what I really want to say here is painfully obvious, but I must say it nevertheless: The men of that summer were middle-class Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He suggested a middle-class hero of a sort as he struggled for success and asserted his rights. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At a time when middle-class women were expected to retire after they started a family, this was a daring decision. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Their march set an example for other middle-class blacks. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z But for all the rich wages earned and the middle-class lives built, any claim that Levittown had to being some kind of utopia was discredited by its glaring defect: a persistent racism. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z King may have embraced direct action, but in the early 1960s he was still very much the product of his black middle-class upbringing, and he would occasionally lash out against stereotyped lower-class behaviors. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I have taken up the middle-class sport of long-distance running. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Whitiker’s ideal of middle-class perfection, with well- educated, smartly groomed kids gathered around a big middle-class dining room table, has two missing pieces: Nicholas and Willie. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I learned how a popular novelist like Dickens, writing for a middle-class audience, makes his readers aware of their ability to effect social reform. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For all their moving, the Links try to carry on an upper- middle-class tradition of volunteering and knitting community ties. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z These men wanted wives who could manage, who were not so well accustomed to middle-class life that they had no ambition, no hunger, no hustle in them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Real potatoes are backward for him. Remember this is our newly middle-class world. We haven’t completed the first cycle of prosperity, before going back to the beginning again, to drink milk from the cow’s udder.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The high cost of housing is squeezing middle-class people off the island. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The exit of professional families ruptured the connection that the less fortunate had to the world of college and middle-class jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I was not used to the heat, the sun, and the hard ground then because Pa provided us with a sheltered, middle-class life. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls weren’t so- called “tramps,” or “trash,” they were well-to-do upper- middle-class whites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But by the late seventies the debate over affirmative action concerned itself only with the rights of white middle-class students. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If anything, the union man, Martinelli, appreciated the middle-class life even more, because of the distance he had traveled to get there. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Life expectancy has increased overall; but upper-middle-class Americans live longer and in better health than middle-class Americans, who live longer and in better health than those at the bottom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Katherine and Jimmy decided to buy a lot in Mimosa Crescent, the World War II-era neighborhood in Hampton that had been built for middle-class families. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Still, the ups and downs of Whitiker’s middle-class existence show that the transition out of poverty is not an easy one. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Unlike poor black workers such as Ann Atwater, wealthy and middle-class blacks saw little to gain and everything to lose from joining Du Bois. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But the West Computers’ competence silenced most of the dissent; up close, it was difficult to object to good educations and mild middle-class manners, even if they came wrapped in brown skin. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z While Vincent is rejoicing in poverty, shedding his clothes, his possessions, his membership in middle-class society, Theo is honing his talents as an art dealer and becoming more and more ambitious. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z So the two groups exist in separate realms—the mestizos in theirs and the middle-class indigenas in theirs—and rarely do they mix. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The city was inundated with middle-class arrivals from the Midwest, especially in the years leading up to the Great Depression. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z She says he has become the very embodiment of the fresh start she was seeking for herself, and onto him she has grafted all her middle-class hopes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And these were mostly from middle-class black families in which reading was encouraged at an early age. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was ludicrous for white middle-class students to claim social oppression. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Several critics wrote dis- missively that these were just spoiled middle-class children whining about their privileged places in life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When my grandfather had opened the bar in 1933, the area had been white and middle-class. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The middle-class academy does not deeply impress on students or teachers a sense of social advantage. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They were a modest, middle-class family, in many ways not at all unlike my own. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Those middle-class ethnics who scorn assimilation seem to me filled with decadent self-pity, obsessed by the burden of public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Goupil's sells fine art and reproductions to middle-class people all over the world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was 96 percent black, but it wasn’t in the inner city, and most of its students did not come from deprived backgrounds but from middle-class ones. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike Darwin—gentleman biologist, and soon to be England’s most lauded natural historian—Wallace had been born to a middle-class family in Monmouthshire. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I know we are middle-class because of our apartment and the possessions we have. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were middle-class Haitians, Farmer said, adding that they regarded living in Cange as living in the sticks. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the late 1950s, school desegregation was the most immediate threat to white middle-class Southerners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The mere suggestion of it, I understood now, caused stable, middle-class families to bail preemptively for the suburbs, worried their property values would drop. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Maybe this was my middle-class expectation, not his. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A clique of misfit teenagers in suburban England sit on adulthood’s cusp, lamenting their middle-class lives and fretting for their futures. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z She is not a crack addict. It looks like Jesse has a brand-new set of middle-class parents hoping for nothing more than to reenter his life. "In Treatment" recap: Finally, some sexual tension 2010-11-17T13:30:00Z They both come from "middle-class suburbia" as Lucas puts it. Little Britain boys 2010-12-12T00:04:00Z Through this and other hotels in Mar del Plata, the Peróns transformed what was once a wealthy vacation spot into a working- and middle-class one. Eva Per?n?s Buenos Aires 2012-03-09T21:57:43Z These experiences may have been what you’d call high-class problems, or maybe middle-class—certainly this was not the stuff of abject poverty. Art doesn’t pay 2012-09-30T14:00:00Z Is it just that, as a middle-class white man, it doesn’t come up all that often? White pride in my classroom 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z “Togetherness,” a beguiling new comedy beginning Sunday on HBO, is an intimate, bittersweet look at the travails of a clique of disaffected middle-class friends. ‘Togetherness’ Joins ‘Girls’ on HBO’s Sunday Night Roster 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z As a middle-class white 29-year-old who’d been in therapy for years trying to go straight, I was initially disturbed by seeing all these black and brown people resisting the police, of all things! How Stonewall felt – to someone who was there | Edmund White 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Growing up in Chicago, a daughter of middle-class Jamaican immigrants, she was used to toggling daily between worlds — West Indian, African American, white. Simone Leigh, in the World 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In their mirrored bathroom, the violence is reflected and refracted, a middle-class American version of the fun-house finale of Orson Welles’s “The Lady From Shanghai.” Donna Ferrato’s Camera Is a Weapon for Women 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In 2010, Barbara Hamburg — a divorced mother living in the upper middle-class town of Madison, Connecticut — was found murdered from blunt force trauma in her yard. "His Dark Materials," thriller "The Flight Attendant" and Maisie Williams hit HBO Max in November 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Except for the middle-class accents, the film presents an honest, down-to-earth portrait of Britain in the postwar age of austerity. Dance Hall 2013-04-20T23:05:30Z The interactions between the parents in her BBC2 comedy Motherland are excruciating variations of ones you see at the school gates, especially if you are a bit middle-class. Sharon Horgan: ‘I want adventures. I want to do stuff that's challenging’ 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Mosley’s men are working class and “first rung” middle-class bank types. Review | Walter Mosley changes gears with ‘The Awkward Black Man,’ a meditation on health, aging and life 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Cuaron said on Twitter on late Tuesday that “Los Pinos joins in showing ROMA!,” a film that focuses on an indigenous maid in a middle-class home that mirrors the director’s own upbringing in Mexico City. Cuaron's 'Roma' beckons moviegoers to Mexico's presidential digs 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z They're married, a middle-class American couple with a couple of kids, living the dream in suburban DC. The Americans – TV review 2013-06-02T05:00:00Z In Johannesburg’s fashionable Melville district, the colonnaded sidewalks fill with barhopping, middle-class blacks and whites, both straight and gay. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z “Mommy” is a passionate and generous portrait of three intersecting lives on the drab outer margins of middle-class society, told without condescension or sugary coating by an artist taking full command of his powers. “Mommy”: An explosive saga of love and loss in the Canadian ‘burbs 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The filmmakers shot from the American side, looking through the border wall’s iron bars to capture images of beautiful, middle-class neighborhoods in Mexico. Trump Proposed a Wall. They Imagined How It Would Work. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z You paint a vivid picture of a large, sporty, middle-class family with a jeering and domineering ethos. A letter to … my mum, who refuses to be old, though she’s 94 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z As so often, the scale of his characters' passions is gauged to fit the contours of their middle-class, middle-aged lives, hedged about by embarrassments, incoherences, repressions and seeping secrets. Life of Riley: Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z “The associations between intelligence and forms of middle-class and elite speech and accent are deeply woven into British class structures.” The rise of ‘accent softening’: why more and more people are changing their voices 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Born into a middle-class Black family in Atlanta in 1893, the blond-haired and blue-eyed White became one of the most powerful Black men in the United States. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z When you compare this generation with the generation from the 60s or 70s, there was massive opportunity for social mobility at the time because the number of middle-class jobs, professional jobs, was booming. Reality TV 'harming youngsters' confidence in job market' 2011-08-04T23:01:04Z Many middle-class residents of Jefferson County saw themselves as defenders of a particularly suburban way of life that was threatened by annexation from the central city. Same-sex suburban couples are changing the equality fight 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Magazines like The Spectator and The Tatler, created in the first years of the 18th century for an educated, middle-class audience, frequently referred to this great man as well as his model of reason. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Today's educated middle-class person, he warns, is more likely to be obsessed with the origins of their coffee beans or free-range chicken than with W.H. 'Culture Crash' examines the crisis in the creative industry 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Squillari is the vehicle for the story but it seems like you’re also broadly interested in the more middle-class victims, in general. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: A Unique Perspective on the Madoff Meltdown 2013-04-25T14:00:34Z Some may argue that this doesn't matter; that here, for once, the tax burden that falls so substantially on the middle classes funds a middle-class activity. Museums should appeal to the heart 2010-06-28T09:59:00Z Expect protests, middle-class anxiety, Miley Cyrus in a blond wig, and, of course Allen’s signature nebbish comedy. The week's best TV: Westworld, Luke Cage and Woody Allen 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z In the autumn of 2008, with the economy in free fall, it was easy to suppose that he was falling, too, from a precarious middle-class existence into an underworld of criminality. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z Much has been written about recent middle-class suffering, but Ms. Macy’s initial interest was in factory workers, like one woman whose only splurge was buying brand-name beans. In Beth Macy’s ‘Factory Man,’ a Struggle to Stay Competitive 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z A shape-shifting drama, directed by Sarah Benson, it begins as a comedy about a black middle-class family, but it doesn’t stop there. 6 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z One fact sometimes overlooked is that Sistema is also open to people from middle-class or upper-middle-class families. El Sistema, Venezuela?s Plan to Help Children Through Music 2012-02-15T23:42:27Z Among the people the Dutchman meets at the bar is Daland — in the libretto a sea captain and the father of the opera’s heroine, Senta, but here a clean-cut, middle-class man. Review: At Wagner’s Festival, a ‘Dutchman’ Never Sails 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z And Brookside was made for the bastion of middle-class cultural chic, Channel 4 – which, of course, was staffed by middle-class refugees from the BBC. The media class, not the middle class, are the BBC's problem 2011-01-26T12:39:16Z “What’s that coming over the hill? A white, middle-class Englishman! A Lone Enraptured Male! From Cambridge!” Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z These two workers appear to be middle-class, and they’re managing this hugely complex set of logistical operations. An Artist Warns of a Robot-Ruled Future. Or Is It Our Present? Let’s Discuss. 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z It seemed like a tidy middle-class neighborhood, some houses gaily painted in yellows and greens, others with a kind of Arizona desert-chic design. Lost in Java 2011-05-06T20:26:42Z But lines like “Elizabeth wondered why more and more middle-class families weren’t getting by anymore while the rich just seemed to get richer” track too closely with what’d we’d hear on the stump. How Do You Talk to Children About Politics These Days? Try These Books. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z It was about the escapades she gets into and the culture shock, being from a very middle-class background and ending up on a council estate. Naomie Harris: ‘I portray strong women because that’s what I know’ 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z In these books, too, she examined a spate of breakdowns — of communication, of relationships, of families, of sanity — and the often turbulent psyches that lay beneath her characters’ calcified British middle-class exteriors. Nina Bawden, Author of ‘Carrie’s War,’ Dies at 87 2012-08-23T04:57:28Z Not totally unlike “The Cosby Show,” “Dr. Ken” struck me as sanitized of its ethnic flavor: yet another example of a whitewashed, upper middle-class family of color created for a mainstream white audience. Paging “Dr. Ken”: A TV show that should be one small step forward for Asian-Americans feels like two giant steps back 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Lane was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, the daughter of a respectable middle-class draper and a mother who came from minor rural gentry. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z “Here we are revolutionaries, ‘Chavistas’!” one old lady chided a recent group, mistaking middle-class visitors to Catia for opposition supporters opposed to the ruling movement called “Chavismo” for former leader Hugo Chavez. Global murder hot spot? No problem, let's stroll around Caracas! 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Tolstoy was raised in a middle-class family in the Moscow region and trained as a journalist. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z White middle-class residents whom planners had expected to move in never materialized. The Housing Situation Is Dire. But Progress Is Still Possible. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z She had a middle-class upbringing in Surrey, and as a child regaled trees in her garden with fairy tales. Drama! Music! Financial Shenanigans! 2010-02-20T05:21:00Z “Big Love” was many things, including an inventive narrative of middle-class assimilation and a satire of modern marital negotiation. Critic?s Notebook: Farewell to Bill and His Family, Family, Family Values 2011-03-21T05:01:01Z The show “is a frisky semi-comical drama about a pretty, blond, middle-class woman who is put behind bars and consorts with less genteel inmates — ‘Clueless’ goes correctional,” Alessandra Stanley wrote in The Times in December. ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ and ‘The Big House’ on DVD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness. Spending Christmas alone? I am – and I will enjoy it 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z The pro-family movement found some nonwhite allies among socially conservative minority Christians, but its normalization of white, middle-class values limited its reach. The rise and fall of “family values”: How “religious freedom” became the rallying cry of the Christian right 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z He explained, patiently, that they were respectable middle-class people. The problem with “mansplaining” 2012-08-20T16:38:00Z Kay and her husband, Arnold, played by Jones with hunched shoulders and understated gravity, are solid middle-class citizens, neither rich nor poor. Pick of the week: Couples therapy with Meryl and Tommy Lee 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z The continuing flow of Blacks to Las Vegas after the war also generated Nevada’s first middle-class housing development for African Americans, Williams’s Berkley Square of 1954. A Photographer Follows Paul Revere Williams Into the West 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Where Rice-Oxley gets close to a workable explanation for his sudden unravelling is in his description of what life is like for a modern middle-class man. Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery by Mark Rice-Oxley – review 2012-06-08T21:55:12Z Bush got a bad rap from some music journalists for being a dreamy middle-class girl rather than an angry working-class bloke. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z For this was one time of the year when the lingering reluctance of middle-class Americans to purchase frivolous gifts for their children was overwhelmed by their equally lingering predisposition to abandon ordinary behavioral constraints. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z Though Ms. Carroll publicly defended “Julia,” she acknowledged that in portraying the black experience it made many concessions to the middle-class white viewers it hoped to attract. Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Behrman, “The Assembled Parties” also suggests those classic sentimental education novels in which young, middle-class outsiders are thrust into the exotic realms of an opulent but dying social order. Theater Review: ‘The Assembled Parties,’ at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater 2013-04-18T02:00:35Z This all started in the heady days of 1997 and New Labour declaring that the class war was over, as we were all middle-class. The media class, not the middle class, are the BBC's problem 2011-01-26T12:39:16Z The second film featured a middle-class dinner-table conversation, in which family members squabbled in a thinly veiled version of the gun-control debate, The old patriarch proudly calls it an “anti-purge” household; his middle-aged daughter disagrees. Making America Gory Again: how the Purge films troll Trumpism 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Girls who become radicalized are often good students from middle-class or lower-middle-class families. A New Film About Young French Women Drawn to Jihadism 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z But he became best known for his work in the indie comedy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” which centered on a middle-class Greek American woman who falls in love with an upper-middle-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Michael Constantine of ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ dies at 94 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z But do packed bookshelves really need another travelogue-cum-memoir written by a middle-class, white American young woman who is trying to find herself? Review: Friedman's travelogue treads no new ground 2011-04-06T20:35:14Z You have a blue-collar, middle-class sensibility right next to one of the greatest cities in the world, which can make for some interesting creative impulses.” Inside ‘Not Fade Away,’ From David Chase 2012-12-05T13:48:48Z He grew up in Maryland in a middle-class Jewish family and played bass in a punk band in his youth. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z She also starred in her first radio show, "My Favorite Husband," from 1948-51, in which she played Liz Cooper, a happily married middle-class housewife. Lucille Ball centennial: Another chance to love Lucy 2011-08-02T20:15:05Z In 2007, Frank Oz directed a mirthless black comedy with a strong British cast in which a ghastly English clan gathers in a home counties country house for the funeral of a middle-class, middle-aged businessman. Death at a Funeral 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z This picture sat in the background of our middle-class colored Sunday dinners like a memento mori, and we made fun of it the way you joke about things that truly scare you. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Is classical music in the European mold the best means to reach Venezuelan youth, whether poor or middle-class? ‘El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth,’ by Geoffrey Baker 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z In Scene One, this paragon of 1970s middle-class self-satisfaction is hosting a family birthday party, and his kids are splashing happily in the backyard pool. Theater review | Heavy hand of fate comes down on 'The Happy Ones' 2011-04-01T23:59:04Z What she wanted was all around her: fuller-figure models with names nobody remembers, many of them middle-class or upper-crust older girls biding their time before landing husbands. Twiggy: `It could have gone terribly wrong' 2010-03-29T20:25:00Z My specific beef, the doubt I am struggling with, regards my peers: middle-class suburban white women who have the means and education to access reproductive care easily, and do so on the sly. The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Born in the small town of Lessines in 1898, the oldest son of a tailor, he grew up in a middle-class home and started drawing as a child. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z And as a white, suburban, middle-class university graduate, I care a little too much about class issues. Labor watch: Fleet Foxes versus The Head and the Heart 2011-02-01T20:32:06Z Like all middle-class black people, I sought an explanation. I received a phone threat and knew writers were not as free as I'd thought 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z Born in 1919 to a comfortably middle-class family in Turin, Italy, the young Levi read widely in world literature — Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley, Darwin, Tolstoy — but early on, he decided to become a chemist. ‘The Complete Works of Primo Levi’: A literary treasury on humanity 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Despite its relatively prosperous, White middle-class setting, “Parenthood” manages to acknowledge those universal realities — within the wholesome warmth of a PG-13-rated film, no less. Perspective | Abortion has always been a tough subject for Hollywood. ‘Parenthood’ got it right. 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z My middle-class American life had been one big push to do everything the “right” way, which drew me to Japan, a country obsessed with perfection in execution. The bride wore denim: I traded my “Sex and the City” years for a quickie wedding in Japan 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z To be a middle-class person living in subsidized housing is uncomfortable, not because you didn’t earn it but because, actually, you’re pretty sure you did. Welcome to the Future: Middle-Class Housing Projects 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The very few black families were middle-class — many, if not most, were professionals at the veterans’ hospital there, successful and upwardly mobile. I don’t know much, but I know why black lives matter 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z In London, Sheila Hancock examines what nice middle-class women were doing in the suffragettes. A History Of The World 2010-05-17T07:00:00Z “It was about getting a job that was practical, so a business degree was what my middle-class parents could be proud of: ‘She’s got a business degree, she can do anything!’” Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z Like the original narrated by Daniel Stern, this is about a boy and his middle-class family during the 1960s. Fall TV season serves up what viewers want: sci-fi, fantasy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Not yet, as the most avid consumers of conventional theatre and opera still look white, middle-aged and middle-class. A great act of vandalism that will impoverish us all 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z All are examples of what Lopez called the same vexing problems: inequality, extremes in the local economy, and the near extinction of middle-class jobs. Festival of Books: Matt Taibbi, Steve Lopez on socio-economic clout 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Then there are middle-class drug users, who have been accused of fuelling the gang problem. 'The show needed to come back': how Drake rescued the druglords of Top Boy 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Although the city is never mentioned, "Sleepover" was shot in the middle-class suburbs of Detroit, and belongs to the fast-diversifying tradition of regional independent cinema. "Myth of the American Sleepover": An exquisite teenage dream 2011-07-22T23:30:00Z The son of a psychiatrist and social worker, Keith grew up with four brothers in a middle-class neighborhood in Detroit. Americans want justice for George Floyd. Keith Ellison is in charge of getting it. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z As crime fiction grew as a genre, however, it became associated with clerks and lower middle-class readers: people who commuted to work on trains and buses. The class pyramid of British literature 2010-03-22T12:01:00Z Like many middle-class Americans, she worked odd jobs as she studied and then went to a local university, just over the state border in Kansas, where she studied English and journalism. Gillian Flynn: chronicler of the midwest's dark side 2013-03-24T00:06:17Z In a humorous, lively style, she made compelling drama out of the everyday problems, small injustices and perplexing mysteries — adults chief among them — that define middle-class American childhood. Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children’s Book Author, Dies at 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z In his lucid study of the never-ending Putin era, Ben Judah argues that the middle-class hipsters who gathered again in the capital last month are themselves, in part, to blame. Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love With Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah – review 2013-06-27T11:00:02Z That logic leads to further inequity, in which working- and middle-class people on the outside can go to college so long as they can shoulder a lifetime of debt. Review | PBS’s ‘College Behind Bars’ offers a lasting lesson: Learning is its own kind of freedom 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z It was a solid middle-class background with little cachet. Waris Ahluwalia: A Ubiquitous Presence, However Unlikely 2013-12-12T01:20:00Z According to Ms. Ennis, their average earnings compared favorably with bank managers and other middle-class professionals. Once Top Musicians, Organists See Loss of Relevance 2014-04-25T19:57:41Z This biography traces Colvin’s path from a middle-class childhood to the front lines in Beirut, Chechnya and Sri Lanka, offering insight into her success in a male-dominated profession. New in Paperback: ‘Invisible’ and ‘Little Faith.’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Bergman’s first television series, its six episodes trace the dissolution of a middle-class marriage. Shooting ‘Scenes From a Marriage’: ‘I Cried Every Day’ 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Historical black communities, bereft of their middle-class residents, often began to decline. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z “But the macro is looking at all the corporations that have caused exponential damage, especially to lower- and middle-class people and their communities.” ‘Dopesick’ Uses Drama, and Michael Keaton, to Give the Opioid Crisis a Human Face 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Montrouge, a conservative middle-class town south of Paris, was one of the first suburbs to get Parisians to travel outside of the city and is one of the most established art centers. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Beyond the Paris Limits, a Cutting Edge 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z As it grew poorer over the decades, the core values of its shrinking middle-class leadership became devalued and distressed, though without disappearing completely. This Week in Fiction: Discovering an Unpublished Story by Langston Hughes 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s a comedy of a darker hue than much of Mr. Ayckbourn’s work, set in an innocuously titled middle-class housing development, Blueberry Hill. The Week Ahead: Dec. 4 ? Dec. 10 2011-12-02T19:02:33Z We don’t realize that our society and our democracy ultimately rest on the stability of middle-class jobs. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z Clybourne Park depicts a version of history where middle-class white areas are essentially invaded by black people, who subsequently preside over the neighbourhood's demise. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z She was born in 1957, the second of four children, to professional middle-class parents, and spent her early life in upstate New York, the town of Glens Falls. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z He grew up middle-class in Kensington, Maryland, the youngest of five boys. Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank And His Underdog Horse Farm 2012-09-07T13:00:00Z Young Jess, an aspiring soccer star, grows up in a middle-class Indian neighborhood of London where she is expected to become a wife and mother like her mom. London Theater Journal: Make 'Em Dream 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Yet despite all the accolades and accoutrements of her “sliver of middle-class comfort,” our girl is unhappy. Review | Societal expectations? Please. For the female protagonists in these 3 debut novels, it’s time to break the mold. 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z So it's The Truman Show, only more middle-class? Pass notes, No 2,851: Notting Hill 2010-09-22T19:00:00Z It’s a party, but also a strategy-making festival for its intended audience: black, female, middle-class or better, middle-aged or at least self-possessed. Critic’s Notebook: Essence Music Festival With Mary J. Blige, in New Orleans 2012-07-09T22:42:42Z Now, that economic system has left many working-class and middle-class whites behind. Cultural appropriation: It's about more than pho and sombreros 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Advertisement The show represents a spectrum of human innovation and aspiration: Some of it ferociously engaged with the Weimar’s tribulations and Hitler’s rise, some of it Utopian, some of it aimed at middle-class creature comforts. Hope and Dread Are Infused in ‘Berlin Metropolis’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Stepp hasn’t felt comfortable changing her hair drastically or obviously in professional settings, and she long held some notions about wigs being “something not done” in her middle-class family and community. Now’s the Time for Wigs. If You Can Get the Hair for Them. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Another popular comic character she created poked fun at Roman middle-class vulgarities. Italy’s pioneering comic actor, Franca Valeri, dies at 100 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z That's a great idea, just not a reality for most middle-class Americans. Review: Personal finance industry gets drubbing 2013-01-14T17:41:13Z “And that’s speaking from a white, privileged, middle-class point of view,” she added. Outside Prison Walls: Waiting, Spinning, Flying 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Maybe this is the birth of middle-class art. A picture of health: art's warts-and-all view of doctors 2013-01-08T15:54:05Z Said site and the resultant book defines the array of Americana that left-leaning, middle-class young liberals tend to identify with, such as an enjoyment of standing still at concerts, lawyers, Bob Marley, and "The Wire." "Tiger King" and the schadenfreude of seeing privileged insanity run wild 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z “We grew up as modest middle-class Jewish kids in Montreal,” David said. New York’s Power Siblings Make Names for Themselves 2012-07-04T14:47:18Z As a middle-class family in the early 1970s, we didn’t dine out or travel that much. The Best Book That Amor Towles Ever Received as a Gift 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z With less than three weeks until Election Day, Clinton and Springsteen took the stage to rally support for Obama among the critical middle-class voting bloc in this tightly contested Midwestern swing state. Stellar duo target Ohio's working class for Obama 2012-10-18T20:59:13Z The still popular, and very white middle-class, Good Life sitcom, 1975. Pass notes No 2,834: The sitcom 2010-08-22T19:00:00Z The story of my family is that my parents both grew up in Detroit in middle-class Jewish families. Jennifer Weiner was right about sexism, media and women writers: "We were told we were lying" 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z During its 53 years as a women’s hotel, the Barbizon hosted generations of mostly white, mostly middle-class, mostly very young women. Some of America’s Most Ambitious Women Slept Here 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Until the 1990s, the prospect of drinking grand cru Burgundy or first-growth Bordeaux was a reasonable splurge, a part of middle-class aspiration. When it comes to wine, weird is the new normal — and that’s for the better 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z As a middle-class kid raised in the industrial hub of Allentown, Pa., he sang Pentecostal songs alongside his grandmother. Tim Heidecker found fame through absurdist humor. His new album ‘Fear of Death’ is no laughing matter. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Two years after “Alligator” came “Boxer,” a record about a grown man gazing at his middle-class self and finding the sight alien to his youthful expectations. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z He singled out middle-class drug users for fuelling street violence. The white stuff: why Britain can’t get enough cocaine 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Not just "a bunch of white, middle-class thespians doing their thing", according to another producer. Ralph Fiennes's full-metal Coriolanus 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z This episode features a real look into the home he came from: suburban, upper middle-class, two-parent. A "Breaking Bad" Guide to 8 Essential Jesse Pinkman Episodes to Prepare for "El Camino" 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z What The Times called “conflicting themes of alienation and commitment” were woven throughout the conversation, as the other attendees, all from “comfortable middle-class backgrounds,” weighed in. Woodstock 1969: A Story Vastly Bigger Than Editors Realized 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Midway through Act I, for instance, the character Jim — a white minister in the middle-class neighborhood of the title — becomes tongue-tied asking if “Negro” is more courteous than “colored.” ?Clybourne Park? Looks at Race Relations in ?59 and Today 2012-04-13T04:00:37Z Proponents say it is vital to keep middle-class jobs and film production in the state. Hollywood film production in 'bad spiral' as competition bites 2014-02-27T21:14:57Z The younger Herr described himself as a “nice, middle-class, educated Jewish boy who as a kid had every nervous tic and allergy possible.” Vietnam War reporter Michael Herr, who helped write ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The dominant backstory of folks in the fashion industry is that of a middle-class kid from the hinterlands who dreamed of glamour and the big city. Christian Siriano has become the face of a fashion industry that once dismissed him 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Maybe that’s how the end of all middle-class childhoods look seen through the yellowed lens of middle age. The day I stood up to The Man 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The single breadwinner model of the family presumed middle-class stability, and the movement as a whole was almost entirely white. The rise and fall of “family values”: How “religious freedom” became the rallying cry of the Christian right 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Comedy has changed since the show went off-air, too, because now it's mainly about middle-class women falling over. Can TV's returning Birds of a Feather cope in Towie's Essex of today? 2013-06-18T12:12:30Z That it’s all those middle-class suckers who were to blame. Her dad was a con man 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z He also acknowledges the white, middle-class privilege that allowed him ambivalence about getting married. Pride, Illustrated: 6 Comics and Graphic Novels to Read This June 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The New Jersey city was once a bustling hub of middle-class black families. Can W. Kamau Bell make CNN hilarious? 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, for most of us middle-class folks, we can only read and imagine what it must be like to be able to luxuriate in such surroundings. Gramercy Tavern: A Classic Still on the Move 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The programme, which takes a squawky panel approach to parenting issues of the day, is a pretty good guide to what's bothering 4's middle-class mums and dads. Bringing Up Britain – radio review 2013-04-05T06:00:06Z “A Summer Diary” is a middle-class story, a drama set amid upward economic mobility. Kathleen Collins’s “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary” Contains an Extraordinary Unmade Movie 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on 27 October 1923, and raised in New York City, the son of affluent middle-class parents. From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z In the 1950s, when Larry Sultan was growing up in Los Angeles, it seemed that every middle-class father was shooting home movies with a Super 8 camera. A Photographer Turned the Tables on His Parents to Learn About Himself 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z “He has his own career, his own life and a stable nuclear family with universal, middle-class aspirations,” he said. Film: Buddies Cracking Jokes and Heads 2010-02-19T23:52:00Z “It was a time in New York when middle-class people did that.” Jed Bernstein, Broadway Producer, to Lead Lincoln Center 2013-05-15T16:10:30Z It's a commentary and observation of middle-class people and the terrors that they're up to. Cannes: Dominic Cooper on playing a "human vibrator" 2010-05-23T18:01:00Z Born to a middle-class family in Austria, and raised in a musical home, he took an early liking to theater — sometimes acting out Catholic Mass as if he were a priest. The ‘Prince of Opera’ Bids Munich Farewell 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Rosini is horrified by the glimpse of the middle-class, middle-aged hell he is in the process of entering. The Story of My Purity by Francesco Pacifico – review 2013-04-24T10:00:01Z Soon, lots of middle-class foodies filled the jail. Radio review: iGod 2010-12-23T07:59:03Z As something much tougher for a white middle-class teacher to confront – kids who have in their normal daily lives all kinds of issues to face. Dangerous Minds at 20: has the ultimate white saviour story aged well? 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z As an academic, Professor Saxton expanded her scope of historical inquiry, looking beyond middle-class white women to examine the lives of women of color, enslaved women and incarcerated women. Martha Saxton, Historian Who Explored Women’s Lives, Dies at 77 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z "This is a crown-jewel industry that provides jobs and opportunity for middle-class families in every region of our Golden State," De Leon said. California to hike film tax credits 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z This was the type of information that middle-class America was exposed to at the time, and so it was hardly surprising that drug use polarized society in the way it did. Timothy Leary’s liberation, and the CIA’s experiments! LSD’s amazing, psychedelic history 2013-12-14T21:00:00Z It’s an impressionistic portrait of her middle-class life: Nicholas on his hobby horse, sun glinting through kitchen windows, the campaign staff manning laptops in her toy-cluttered dining room. Hugs, flags, tears, kids: Inside the heart-tugging world of today’s super-viral campaign ads 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z A respectable, sheltered middle-class American has a big job interview, but everything goes wrong. Movie Review: ‘Walk of Shame,’ About a Trip on Which Everything Goes Wrong 2014-05-02T22:23:30Z The harrowing story of downward-spiralling expectations, a rapid fall from a tenuous toehold on middle-class security, is the movie’s grand inspiration. Movies 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z At the time, classical music in America was still a growing, aspirational brand of middle-class entertainment. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Partly through our rigid censorship, partly because of middle-class domination, the British crime film didn't become established in our native cinema until the mid-1940s. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z In London, often middle-class black immigrants moved into already deprived white working-class communities, where they have either remained or been replaced by newer waves of residents from eastern Europe, Turkey or Somalia. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z The movie seems like a natural to describe the emergence of Newt Gingrich, who drew heavily from discontented middle-class whites. Our “Falling Down” election: What an Angry White Man on a rampage can tell us about Donald Trump and voter rage 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z A handsome, polite young man arrives at the door of a modest, middle-class family in New Mexico saying he served in the military with their recently deceased son. 'The Guest' filmmakers Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett going beyond horror 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “I mean, it was middle-class poverty! We were still in a house. But I couldn’t see where I fitted in.” Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Where Roma is a paean to women – not only Cleo and her fellow maid Adela, but the middle-class family’s mother Sofia and grandmother Teresa – the two main men in the film are feckless moral cowards. Roma star Yalitza Aparicio: 'I don’t think I am an actor' 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The reactionary crackdown that ensued destroyed confidence in the Social Democratic leadership and turned many of the Austrian middle-class towards fascism. Sex-Pol: Essays, 1929-1934 by Wilhelm Reich – review 2013-05-01T07:00:02Z Amanda, who’s more middle-class comfortable, knows that Lily is getting paid for her attention, which doesn’t stop the girls from curiously circling each other. Review: Meet the Peewee Nihilists of ‘Thoroughbreds’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Three decades later, Gershwin, with his Rhapsody in Blue, found himself at the centre of a related debate when his incorporation of jazz – perceived as grubby, street music – outraged middle-class concert-goers. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z I realise I shouldn’t put it that way… White, middle-class, educated people like myself are not living in a police state… Black, poor people are living in a police state. Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: ‘He was small and lithe, like a house cat’ 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Visalia was predominantly a farming community with a large population of laborers but also a sizable number of professional, middle-class families. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z He sees this as a sign of growing class divisions in a once middle-class country, as well as Italy’s ambivalence about its place in the world. In ‘Italian Ways,’ Tim Parks Again Tries to Explain Italy 2013-06-07T21:25:53Z He uses art and humor to explore "that transition from Afrocentrism" to "your parents becoming middle-class soccer moms." Solo Chicago show for artist Rashid Johnson 2012-04-16T17:10:17Z Being a white middle-class guy born in 1978, how do I talk about this? Jeff Nichols on Loving: 'You can't grow up in the American south and not confront race issues' 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z I grew up in a lower middle-class neighbourhood in Queens that was destroyed by drugs. Russell Simmons: the war on drugs made victims of the black community 2013-03-30T23:00:06Z For the show, the artist Heather Hart has constructed a full-scale house, not so different from homes once owned by middle-class Black residents in nearby Queens. At the Queens Museum, Home and the World 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z A lot of them had fairly comfortable middle-class backgrounds. James Blunt gets mother's backing in 'posh pop' row 2011-01-28T13:44:08Z The results, in his telling, include skyrocketing inequality, stagnant middle-class incomes and, in recent years, a right-wing populist backlash embodied in the United States by the election of Donald Trump. How Rampant Globalization Brought Us Trump 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Where did this sudden cross-party consensus on the evils of middle-class drug originate? The white stuff: why Britain can’t get enough cocaine 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Born and raised in a Northern California suburb, Ms. Chastain is one of five children and describes her family as tightknit, middle-class and “really average.” Arts & Leisure: A Star Not Quite Overnight 2011-08-24T15:02:50Z It allows opponents to paint Obama as hobnobbing for dollars with middle-class angst riding high. In search for cash, Obama's keeps an A-list cast 2012-06-14T06:42:30Z Like “There Is Confusion,” it is a story about middle-class respectability. The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z In his earlier features, Mendonça Filho used different spaces and homes — a middle-class neighborhood, a derelict plantation, an apartment threatened with demolition — as conduits to ideas about history, community, surveillance and power. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z In 1981, a solidly middle-class Connecticut family suddenly loses its bearing. Review | ‘The Last Romantics’ is a sweeping family saga with a poetic streak 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z About them, she writes, in the sort of homely prose that fills this book, "They were middle-class folks who loved God, family and their country." 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z The London-based Steam Industry Free Theater Limited, producer of the performances, said the audience has included many who have never before been to the theater, which can be a middle-class bastion. Free drama of popular protest rocks London stage 2011-08-31T12:37:39Z It was for middle-class people aspiring to be culturally upper-middle class; my parents were refugees from Hitler’s Europe just striving to be middle class. First Encounters with the Art and Presence of Saul Steinberg 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Seen as it unfolds, it simplifies and gratifies and, in so doing, condescends both to its poor characters and to its middle-class spectators. “American Honey” ’s Silent Youth 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The last series Jenji Kohan created was Weeds, a dramatic comedy about a mild-mannered middle-class woman who get mixed up in the drug trade. Killings, Convicts, and Campers: Three New Shows to Watch for 2013-07-08T09:45:27Z “The garden,” as residents call it, was created in 1921 as a cooperative community for middle-class professionals who were being squeezed into large apartment blocks. What Do Anna Wintour and Bob Dylan Have in Common? This Secret Garden 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Trained as an accountant, Mr. Savara, 50, “grew up in a regular, middle-class Punjabi household.” Special Report: Art in Perspective: Creating a Narrative of Indian Modernism 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z Its over-the-top plot, and equally exaggerated leading lady, are always framed by a certain middle-class circumspection. Review: ‘Travels With My Aunt’ Taps Into a Hidden Sense of Adventure 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In her recent book, “Stealing the Show,” Joy Press notes that while Diane English, the creator of “Murphy Brown,” admired “Roseanne,” Ms. Barr “felt alienated by the kind of middle-class liberal feminism Murphy Brown represented.” This Fall, Everything Old Is TV Again 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The way he repeatedly recounts his accomplishments and expertise certainly suggests he’s thinking about a 2020 run, as does the way he finds multiple excuses to invoke his middle-class bona fides. In Joe Biden’s Memoir, Private Grief and Its Effect on a Public Life 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z These refugees, who speak broken English, are middle-class Syrians who are devastated to leave their homeland. At the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, a Lot of the Humans Are Women 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Virtually all war is fought mostly by poor or at most middle-class folks enticed to join up by the economy and the mythical propaganda of the wealthy who will not fight. The Meaning of War and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z “Patrick”, for instance, a retired federal official, middle-class, narcissistic, who murdered his daughter and wife and believes they will be waiting for him in heaven “with open arms”. Rachel Louise Snyder: ‘Domestic abuse is as common as rain' 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Watched daily by some seven million viewers, it follows predominantly black middle-class characters working in Johannesburg's advertising industry. SA soap on hiatus after cast sacking 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z She lives in a middle-class community somewhere near San Diego. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker – review 2012-07-13T21:54:01Z Here, he spins tales of his East End upbringing, where Alphabetti Spaghetti was regarded as opulent, while also being willing to tip a titfer to the peculiarities of middle-class life. TV highlights 14/06/2013 2013-06-14T06:28:43Z Her new series is a comedic drama about a mild-mannered middle-class woman who gets mixed up in the drug trade. Killings, Convicts, and Campers: Three New Shows to Watch for 2013-07-08T09:45:27Z Situated in the middle-class neighborhood of Hurlingham, the shop is also well-stocked with both the latest books and classic works, in addition to a large children’s collection. A Writer’s Favorite Spots in Nairobi 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Although lighter in texture than many of the 70 or so plays Ayckbourn has written since, it contains fascinating intimations of the middle-class marital angst that was to become his speciality. Relatively Speaking – review 2013-05-20T22:00:01Z One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where he lives, David Goldblatt found his camper van on bricks. David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review 2011-01-25T13:59:01Z But it explained something to me as a middle-class audience lapped it up. From Tippi Hedren to Uma Thurman, being a muse means being abused 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z And yet, he defends Success as an entitlement of determined, low-income parents — just as wealthy and middle-class parents move to the suburbs or pay for private schools for the sake of their children’s education. The Secret to Success Academy’s Top-Notch Test Scores 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Hollywood makes few dramatic movies about middle-class worries now. Will Ferrell on Donald Trump, Michelle Obama and His New Movie 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Apparently, that’s often the case at True Colors, which performs at an arts center in Cascade, a middle-class black neighborhood 12 miles southwest of the Alliance in Midtown. 54% of the People. 12% of the Plays. Atlanta, Do We Have a Problem? 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Friday’s in the early nineteen-seventies and, as the mini-chain grew, it migrated alongside the rest of middle-class America to the suburbs, where it became the family-friendly purveyor of loaded potato skins that it is today. How T.G.I. Friday’s Helped Invent the Singles Bar 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z A book that strenuously celebrates the spectacle of middle-class white writers and their tots bonding over the Beatles may strike some readers as a bit precious. Ask me why: Great writers on the Beatles songs they love most 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Downward mobility is a relatively new thing for middle-class white people in this country. We're broke, not poor: how I became downwardly mobile (when your parents weren't) 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “There’s an awful lot of variation, even in an ordinary middle-class English voice,” he explains. How John Cleese Found His Planes Voice 2013-08-05T17:00:06Z Aimed at middle-class buyers, the steel houses could be built in 30 days or less. Donald Wexler, Architect Who Gave Shape to Palm Springs, Dies at 89 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Relatedly, Orenstein's tone can be slightly parental and smacking of middle-class respectability. Great sexpectations: Peggy Orenstein's 'Girls & Sex' explores the thorny politics of teen sexuality 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?” Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z “We had been a tight, 70s middle-class family, and within a very short period that family unit was ripped up,” he says. Growing up in the Wild Wild Country cult: ‘You heard people having sex all the time, like baboons’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z That’s an unusual trajectory for a writer in Iran, where most writers are middle-class urban educated people. ‘The Colonel,’ by the Iranian Writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2012-07-01T18:15:33Z That may be changing as more people become familiar with the ideas that animate the movement and as middle-class finances remain precarious. Would you consider living in a much smaller home? 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Ever since, she has fully embraced what she distanced herself from in her 20s and 30s: her suburban upbringing, her middle-class Jewish identity, her love of the show tune. Deborah Kass’s ‘Before and Happily Ever After’ Retrospective 2012-10-28T16:28:43Z She made her feature debut in 2000 with Love & Basketball, a romance based partly on her own high-school sporting career, growing up in a middle-class California suburb. Gina Prince-Bythewood: 'Films about black women are the hardest to get made' 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z They include his famous tuxedo-clad self-portrait, in which a solidly middle-class guy from Leipzig crafts himself as an imposing, urbane artistic aristocrat. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Free Outgoing U.S. premiere of Anupama Chandrasekhar’s drama about a middle-class family in India whose lives are upended after the teen daughter is captured in an indiscreet video that goes viral. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 12-19: 'Forever Plaid' and more 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Relatively new to the trappings of stable middle-class life, she’s already broken down everything stupid about it. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Unlike the fierce American souls in “Strange Interlude,” Mr. Ayckbourn’s middle-class Britons are too polite to say directly what they mean, and therein lies what meat there is in this paillard of a comedy. London Stages, Full of Cheating Hearts 2013-07-18T12:00:01Z But also worth your while are films that burst the white and/or middle-class bubble. France’s Fault Lines Are Exposed in an American Film Showcase 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Cuyjet’s dance lineage and her experience growing up in a middle-class Black family are complicated for her. All Her Life Studies: A Downtown Dancer Finds Her Voice 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z We just need them to be a bit less white and middle-class. Pass notes No 2,834: The sitcom 2010-08-22T19:00:00Z Instead, we rented apartments in middle-class Moroccan neighborhoods, and shopped for our groceries in souqs where we could get to know our neighbors. "We were homeless in Marrakech": When budget travel with two kids goes sideways 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z But now writer Will Self is poised to become the first writer in residence at that bastion of middle-class values, . Will Self in talks to become Radio 4 writer-in-residence 2013-01-18T17:02:38Z In an epilogue, Shaw wrote ten pages on how this relationship had no possible future, and the Eliza would in all likelihood marry Freddy, and they would have an uneventful middle-class life. The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z In the North, the Democrats’ emphasis on bread-and-butter issues drew enormous numbers of new black voters, but many middle-class blacks remained skeptical of the big-city political machines. Can You Be Black and Republican? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z We know the hysteria and news was lapped up by the general population, but especially young middle-class women. Why Jack the Ripper and other serial killer narratives endure 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z In Albee, the intruder symbolises a spirituality that his middle-class victim lacks. Writer's Block 2010-09-28T22:00:00Z Now, if we could just broaden, with frankness and grace, the focus on older women outside of the white, upper middle-class, heterosexual range, I would be grateful. "And Just Like That": How "Sex and the City" sequel broadens the representation of 50+ women on TV 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z A personal epic set in Mexico City in the early 1970s, it centers on a young indigenous woman who works as a maid for a middle-class white family that’s falling apart. ‘Roma’ Review: Alfonso Cuarón’s Masterpiece of Memory 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z But leaders are eager for the tiny enclave to shed its reputation for seediness and corruption and draw more middle-class Chinese families. Sands, Dreamworks strike Macau casino license deal 2013-04-30T11:33:10Z Netflix shrewdly submitted "Orange Is the New Black," about a middle-class woman in jail on drug charges, as a comedy, avoiding a showdown against "House of Cards." Big screen stars bring new shine to Emmys, TV's top night 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Liberals have often viewed the alliance of the religious right and Republican big business that empowered Reagan as a matter of misunderstanding, or a cynical manipulation of poor and middle-class whites by wealthy élites. We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of “The Handmaid’s Tale” 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Andrew McCarthy, all grown up now, turns up as the O'Nan character's churchgoing brother, who is defiantly proud of his middle-class status. June 1 at SIFF: 'Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best,' 'Keep the Lights On' 2012-05-31T20:19:03Z “Gasoline Alley” débuted in the Chicago Tribune in 1918, as a gag strip about the growing popularity of automobiles among middle-class Americans. An Old Comic Strip About Modern Fatherhood 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Years later the same area – now ridden by social deprivation – attracts a new generation of middle-class white people charmed by its ethnic complexion. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z Mostly, there is marital infidelity, which seems to come as naturally to the middle-aged, middle-class French couples who populate the film as shopping for goat cheese or going for a medical checkup. | 'Change of Plans': All Kiss-and-Tell and Wink-and-Nod at a Crowded Dinner Party 2010-08-26T23:23:00Z So it is with “Moment by Moment,” in which the element of time serves a special, melodramatic purpose—it infuses a recognizable version of middle-class life with a sense of destiny. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z The creators' primary goal was to establish a middle-class environment for the family - with the appropriate clothes, books and furniture - to demonstrate how the Jan. 12 disaster cut across all layers of society. Sitcom takes aim at danger, boredom in Haiti camps 2010-05-24T06:29:00Z Possessed of few obvious talents and a bottomless sense of entitlement, this expensively upholstered figure was the archetype for the ordinary middle-class matron who blossomed into improbable, overwhelming, gasp-inducing fame. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z I’m compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there. ArtsBeat: A Macabre Mystery: Poe Ballantine Talks About Memoir and True Crime 2013-09-04T20:44:29Z Giorgio is a middle-class young man who gets caught up in the circle of the Finzi-Continis, aristocratic Jews living on their verdant estate in idyllic insulation from the increasingly unfriendly world. Review: An Opera Sings of a World on the Verge of Ending 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z I was the one person among the three of us that did interviews with middle-class moms, and I soon began to see that balance was an illusion. More time in the kitchen may not be the answer to feeding kids well 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Cuyahoga Falls is a middle-class suburb of industrial Akron, Ohio, a grid of leafy streets and comfortable homes bordered by the river. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Cool figures generally come from working- or middle-class backgrounds. Museums Special Section: In Washington, 100 Examples of the Epitome of Cool 2014-03-19T20:36:17Z She is like a dreamier, melancholy, middle-class version of Mike Leigh, improvising her way to the heart of things. Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘We should tell whatever stories we like’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z His father, Fred C. Trump, amassed a fortune building middle-class housing in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Trump left his mark all over New York. Some in the city would like to erase it. 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z I tell them that I was privileged to be born into a middle-class African American family with educated parents who provided me with strong positive messages. Bull Connor spat in my teenage face: The civil rights march that changed me forever 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The expansion of the black middle-class in the 1970s is the most visible example of that access. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z As long as theatre remains so white and middle-class it will continue to be a deeply flawed medium for communicating a message about what white people have, and black people don't. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z Not so long ago Iraq was much more westernized than it is today, and scenes of Iraqis in Western garb, living comfortable middle-class lives in happier times, puts a lump in your throat. Review: ‘Iraqi Odyssey’ Shows the Arc of a Family and a Country 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z They had collaborated before, like many middle-class children of their era, on a nursery magazine. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z From the pale stucco of our family home to the middle-class patrons of the neighborhood it was in and especially the schools I attended. "WandaVision" gave us the MCU's first superpowered Black woman, which is long overdue yet not enough 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z With its classy address on the Upper East Side, it went without saying that the hotel clients were middle-class and white. Waking up to New York: secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z The perfect middle-class family lives the perfect life in the perfect country house. Bouquet of Barbed Wire 2010-09-07T07:00:00Z “Dallas,” by contrast, stayed firmly rooted in middle-class American values, presenting a picture that was more Big Boy breakfast buffet than “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Riff: When ‘Dallas’ Was the Capital of America 2012-06-02T04:00:06Z He goes to Box Hill in Surrey in the footsteps of the Sunday Tramps, a middle-class walking group seeking to escape the dreary 19th-century Sabbath who dared each other to trespass. Ramble On by Sinclair McKay – review 2012-06-22T21:55:19Z It’s a middle-class nightmare amped to the extreme — in a blink everything you’ve worked for is gone, your stability shattered and the future full of peril. ‘Ozark’ on Netflix: This Lake Has Hidden Depths 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The book was a successful, melancholy meditation on America’s lost manufacturing base, the erosion of a shared sense of national purpose, and one middle-class man left adrift. North to Alaska in Dave Eggers' new 'Heroes of the Frontier' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z His characters are mostly middle-class artists and intellectuals, frequently writers struggling to find their voice. ‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z "Theatre shouldn't really be – and it tends to be too much – white, middle-class Oxbridge types speaking in posh voices," he said. Shakespeare flashmob surprises diners with pop-up performance 2012-08-28T18:26:31Z This book’s emphasis is on middle-class parents who do all their own child rearing and housework, and to some readers of both social science and contemporary fiction they may seem like an almost lost species. Books Of the Times: Jennifer Senior Studies Parenthood in ‘All Joy and No Fun’ 2014-01-26T22:06:59Z Set in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, it’s a story of middle-class striving and medical tragedy in the Irish-American Leary family. Books to Watch Out For: August 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “I’ve seen the whole debate about middle-class drug use,” says Bennett, who adds that he has never taken or bought drugs. 'The show needed to come back': how Drake rescued the druglords of Top Boy 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z In the first episode, Rev Smallbone's church was suddenly filled with middle-class parents looking to get their children into the local church school. Another view on Rev 2010-07-18T20:45:00Z Written by Stephen Karam, the play depicts a middle-class American family gathering on Thanksgiving; their economic anxieties and familial and generational tensions are soon laid bare over dinner. ‘The Humans’ to Start National Tour Next Month 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Jane Howard was universally acclaimed as an elegant writer with a witty insight into middle-class relationships, manners and mores. Obituary: Elizabeth Jane Howard 2014-01-02T19:26:16Z In part it’s a portrait of Johnson’s cloistered middle-class childhood on the Upper West Side. Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z While never able to compete with the state channels, Dozhd has been popular with urban middle-class Russians disturbed by the corruption and growing authoritarianism under Putin. How Russia hits back at slights over WWII victory 2014-02-10T14:06:15Z "So for psychological thrillers, I think middle-class characters work very well." Killer ideas 2011-07-21T08:32:25Z Without fully giving voice to the community central to the inciting incident of the novel, Ng risks reinforcing their marginal nature and fortifying middle-class myopia instead of imploding it. Review | Celeste Ng grapples with both sides of the debate over interracial adoptions 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z If the show were a satire of the artist as a comfortably middle-class tenured professor and soccer mom, it would be funny and possibly illuminating, but it’s not. Michelle Grabner 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In June, the Van Doesburg-Rinsema House, one of a complex of 16 middle-class homes built in the 1920s in Drachten, will open to the public for the first time. Stepping Into Mondrian’s Shoes, and Other Adventures in Dutch Style 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Baraka, who died last week at 79, passed through so many different phases, from middle-class kid in Newark to aspiring Beat poet to founder of the Black Arts movement to leftist activist to academic. Questlove Reflects on Amira Baraka 2014-01-13T00:22:25Z Yes, between a female chauffeur and a middle-class friend of the family. ‘Downton Abbey’-esque novels offer romance, fashion and foie gras 2013-02-07T21:54:37Z It's overwhelmingly white, middle-class, heterosexual girls who are portrayed as at risk in these stories of sexualised girls. Sex, lies and teenage girls 2013-03-11T11:00:01Z There's a real middle-class fear of conflict, of the lower classes rising up, of violence in the Middle East. Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus on life after lo-fi 2011-04-07T21:29:00Z I’m a middle-class person who is dying to pay for this.” ‘Broad City’ Stars Look Toward Season 2 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The reason was her rewarding work on television, namely the popular sitcom Julia, in which she played a widowed middle-class single mother. Diahann Carroll obituary 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Yet when she moves years later, she leaves a gentrified, white middle-class area that bears little resemblance to the Lyon Street of 1981, she has little to say about it. Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But still, no abuse, no meanness, just an ambitious middle-class home where I was valued only for my academic achievements and my looks. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: It was a non-crying shame when her parents passed away 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z It includes 18 members of the Ghetto Classics orchestra, children from middle-class and wealthy Kenyan families, and expat children. A Classical Music Lover Changes Kenyan Children’s Lives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z I come from a family who worked very hard to get from not a lot of money to middle-class. "Space Force" standout Ben Schwartz reflects on pandemic anxiety, career shifts, and Carrie Fisher 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z It can be seen as the last play in a trilogy featuring British middle-class youth: it transmits both the alarm and the tedium of being young. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z Paxton grew up in Richmond in what he calls an “average middle-class family.” How downsizing expert Matt Paxton helps Americans sort through their stuff 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Malcolm’s middle-class parents moved several times, often into neighborhoods they knew were hostile, confronting the Ku Klux Klan, local officials and bigoted employers. A New Life of Malcolm X Brimming With Detail, Insight and Feeling 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z A middle-class parent who is reluctant to send their child to the local comprehensive is either a snob, a racist or an ignoramus. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z The play’s lively world premier staging by Cameron Watson for Rogue Machine Theatre wittily envisions a bankrupt middle-class dream as a TV game show with unknown rules, in which nothing is fair. Where the middle-class dream turns into the world's worst game show 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Kevin Humphreys, a Labour party junior minister, said turnout was high in both working-class and middle-class parts of his Dublin South East constituency. Ireland gay marriage referendum: high urban turnout boosts yes hopes 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Nobody listens to her protestations that the killer was a random homeless person, maybe because that's what middle-class white people always say after they commit heinous crimes. "The Next Three Days": Russell Crowe's gloomy jailbreak 2010-11-19T20:45:00Z Roush: Seems a lost cause, but ABC's "The Middle," arguably the most authentic look at struggling middle-class family life since "Roseanne," is the genre's perennial also-ran, forever living in the shadow of "Modern Family." Emmys 2014: Crime, comedy and overdue attention 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Hannah is a middle-class Christian woman who also feels trapped in her life and is partial to a drink. Tyrannosaur: a debut with claws 2011-01-24T17:00:46Z Even when I was growing up in Nashville, Tennessee, as a suburban middle-class kid in a poor white suburb, we were the only black family on the block and there were confederate flags as curtains. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z "The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements." Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z Pullman added that his own experience as a schoolteacher taught him that claims libraries are a narrow, middle-class issue are simply not true. Protests across the UK expected for Save Our Libraries Day 2011-02-04T11:19:02Z Furthermore, expectations were that middle-class women would limit their sexual encounters to marriage. How porn became a civil right 2012-11-25T01:00:00Z There’s no straightforward narrative arc in “La Ciénaga”; instead, the oppressive heat is the plot, and Martel studies the instincts that it unleashes in her petty, middle-class characters. Four Movies About Summer to Stream Now 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Instead, Playwrights will put on a new production of the five-character comedy, which zooms in on the adjacent backyards of two recovering addicts and their anxious middle-class neighbors. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Detroit' Rerouted Off-Broadway for New York Debut 2011-12-12T21:34:54Z Ms. Zink has a confident feel for the dynamics of a group house, and for the lives of young, earnest, befuddled, middle-class kids who will sacrifice a good situation in order to believe in something. Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The Death of Convict Leasing In the North, the prison abolition movement went viral, embracing not only workers’ organizations, sympathetic rural insurgents and prisoners, but also widening circles of middle-class reformers. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z He comes from a middle-class background – his father was a film editor, his mother an NHS receptionist. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z I’m a single mother of two from a lower middle-class family, but it’s manageable: hard work is working in a coal mine.” Naomi Wolf on Her New Book, “Vagina” 2012-09-19T22:10:40Z But it’s also a sharp exploration of the kind of middle-class social anxieties that vibrate through “The Overnight.” Review: In ‘The Overnight,’ Newcomers Try Hard to Make Friends 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z This was the birth of the “cashed up bogan”, a confusing phenomenon producing a social grouping with working-class interests and middle-class wealth. Who will win my bogan vote? 2013-05-27T01:30:00Z “Arts programs are for far more than an urban, middle-class, educated audience,” Ms. Ryder said. Seamus Heaney Work Wins Contest Honoring Ireland’s Poets and Its Past 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z He was a smart guy with leadership skills who had detoured from the mainline road of being a first-in-the-family college graduate injected into middle-class American life. The tale of Marion Barry, king of D.C. The family lived in a “middle-class Jewish ghetto” in Boston. Frederick Wiseman: ‘I’m not a fly on the wall. I’m at least 2% conscious’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z I started by asking myself: is Radio 4 too heavily designed for middle-aged, middle-class middle England? A cool Radio 4? What a turn-off 2011-02-13T00:06:03Z Perhaps because the only notable British sitcom about a non-white family was The Crouches in 2003, which followed the lives of a black working-class south London family as imagined by a white middle-class Glaswegian screenwriter. Pass notes No 2,834: The sitcom 2010-08-22T19:00:00Z We saw immigrant communities, middle-class families and people of all stripes struggling, sometimes stumbling through their day. New York's faces: `Law & Order' showed 'em all 2010-05-15T21:01:00Z She was the youngest of five children in a family that was comfortably middle-class and remained so even after her father died in his late 50s. Chicago woman to join elite ranks of supercentenarians 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z It's easy to suppose that judges prefer to see their own middle-class life reflected in ficiton, and shun novels about the ravages of post-industrial life. The unnoticed bias of the Booker prize 2012-07-27T11:37:12Z Many of these picturesquely decaying neoclassical houses have refurbishment potential that has drawn brave middle-class pioneers back from the suburbs. Next Time You're in Athens 2011-01-06T09:05:00Z A wall-size mural of Allen Ginsberg with his conventional middle-class relatives faces off against one of Andy Warhol and habitués of the Factory — two luminaries of vanguard culture posing with very different families. Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z We talk to Remi about his films to date and why we see so few black middle-class men in British cinema. Film Weekly at the Rushes Soho Shorts film festival 2010-08-05T10:56:00Z Both were born into solidly middle-class homes, the son of a stockbroker and judge respectively. Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna – review 2013-01-25T20:00:03Z Wary middle-class patrons gravitate to karaoke clubs with cubicles that isolate them from strangers. 2010-02-07T10:21:00Z Lydia’s blind spots come from her desire to maintain her way of life, as a middle-class mother who owns a bookstore in Acapulco. Review | ‘American Dirt’ offers a thrilling adrenaline rush — and insights into the Latin American migrant experience 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z And yet it is, horror of horrors, about a middle-class family. Are TV sitcoms too middle-class? 2011-01-30T00:04:16Z Campbell’s soup used to be a staple in middle-class American households. Review: A ’60s View of Warhol’s Soup Cans, at MoMA 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Inevitably, he was demonised by the new Royal Court generation of the mid-1950s, and Rattigan did not help his cause by inventing a figure to represent his middle-class audiences: the determinedly middlebrow Aunt Edna. The best theatre for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:08Z It’s not merely about camaraderie and Christmas and good cheer; it’s also about a crisis of small-town business, the economics of family and society, and debt, labor and the sacrifices and responsibilities of middle-class ambition. “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Occupy Bedford Falls! 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z “But it was a more lower middle-class or upper working-class background.” Steve Coogan: ‘Maybe I've just got flabby and middle-aged' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The inimitable Mary Wesley's Not That Sort Of Girl stars middle-class Rose, who, like many Wesley heroines, marries stuffy Ned for stability but carries on a sensational affair with half-French, artistic, scruffy Mylo. Fictional cravings: what are your storybook desires? 2010-03-25T13:30:00Z She was Martha Parker, a comely middle-class lass “possessed of many charms.” The Love Triangle That Caused a Religious Panic 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z We lived a life of middle-class restraint where feelings were kept private. A letter to … My adoptive mother, to apologise 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z In the era in which the play takes place, the fracturing of middle-class marriages was a much bigger story than it is today. A Revival of A. R. Gurney’s ‘Wayside Motor Inn’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z And yet he is still here doing his thing because, as he says elsewhere in the song, “these smart middle-class black kids need a role model”. Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z But on their self-titled album due April 8, Teasdale, 29, and Chambers, 28, deliver more smart, frisky neo-new wave songs about the challenges of being a middle-class woman in her late 20s. Wet Leg, the Indie-Rock Duo, Blew Up Fast. They Know It’s Weird. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Set in the early years of Jim Crow, Micheaux’s films aim to empower their subjects with middle-class lifestyles, and sometimes skirt issues of racism. William Hooker and Oscar Micheaux, visionaries across eras and art forms 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In her landmark essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" Susan Sontag defines the aesthetic as such: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness and shocking excess." If entertaining is a domestic performance, let Thanksgiving be camp 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z At heart, I am an English middle-class woman. Oscar suddenly notices Charlotte Rampling, after ‘45 Years’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z A yearlong pandemic diary embedded in a prickly domestic negotiation, the movie is essentially a two-person play set in the upscale kitchen of the couple’s comfortable middle-class home. ‘Together’ Review: Love and Loathing in London 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z His problem, he added, “was the essentially middle-class feeling that I had to support myself.” Books of The Times: ‘The Long Voyage,’ a Collection of Malcolm Cowley’s Thoughts 2014-02-11T19:43:52Z Also to Thermes’s credit: She doesn’t shy from the dark chapters of Manhattan’s history, like the fate of Seneca Village, the middle-class African-American community destroyed when the city claimed the land for Central Park. Enticing Books for Every Kid This Holiday Season 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Yes, it's a Romanian film, but one set in an intimate, highly recognizable middle-class world of consumer capitalism, not some ultra-grimy zone of art-house despair. "Tuesday, After Christmas": A sexy, slow-burning marriage drama 2011-05-27T19:28:00Z “It’s what they’ve achieved in terms of breaking into what remains a white, middle-class sport that is most impressive,” he says. John McEnroe: ‘I am proud to be a feminist’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Indeed, the whole reason that Medicare is so difficult to reform is that it is a middle-class entitlement. Is Rick Santorum a Conservative Health-Care Champion? 2012-01-06T20:14:53Z Greg and Rachel are white and middle-class and live in neighborhoods and houses depicted as inviting; Earl is black and poor, and lives in a desolate, quasi-industrial neighborhood in a seemingly dilapidated house. What’s Missing from “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Starting in the early aughts, an influx of affluent millennials and empty nesters to the neighborhood drove up home prices, displacing many longtime black middle-class and working-class residents. Is it Meridian Hill Park or Malcolm X Park? Your answer is meaningful. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Motherhood can be difficult for a brown woman in the United States, even one who is comfortably middle-class, and Skyhorse turns to the conventions of the supernatural to slowly bring this alive. In ‘My Name Is Iris,’ a Mother Learns the Limits of Protectiveness 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s been middle-class, teen, white boy month there for years, but now nobody wants to hear about it. Why the privileged white male is bombing at the Box Office 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In an interview with the Independent, Norman said he worried cycling in the capital was too much the preserve of white, middle-class men. Don't blame men for London's cycling problems – fix our feral streets 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Still, the earlier film, which never had an American commercial release, has some potent scenes and a gamy, cynical perspective on the zone where middle-class respectability intersects with underworld opportunism. Review: Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘When You Read This Letter’ Is a Vexing Noir 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Bateman plays the middle-class schlub attempting to bring McCarthy's credit card thief to justice and clear his own name – a clunky plot device that would be less problematic were the movie funnier. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-07-13T23:05:18Z Obviously, women born into poverty in this country, particularly women of color, have it far worse than a White woman born into the middle-class. Deborah Copaken never wanted to be ‘Shutterbabe.’ Her new memoir is on her terms. 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z He traces Roth’s life from his stable but inhibiting middle-class childhood in Newark, New Jersey, to adult years of literary discipline and personal liberties, and his final years of self-imposed retirement. ‘Philip Roth’: Blake Bailey’s story behind the story arrives 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z It was also the idyllic picture of middle-class stability. White flight from reality: Inside the racist panic that fueled Donald Trump’s victory 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z My mother, who grew up in a God-fearing Midwestern middle-class household in the 1940s, recalls from her childhood the still-familiar lines: Let it rip! When fart jokes were comedy’s last taboo 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Second, that it embodies a middle-class set of social and cultural behaviours, normalised as the unwritten rules of How To Watch Theatre. What's so wrong with proscenium arch theatre? 2010-07-19T11:36:00Z Houses in upper middle-class neighborhoods tend to look like mansions, while on the East Side, whole blocks are filled with vacant lots. Who’s afraid of India Walton? 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Pete, an older teenager, is his friend and mentor, from a middle-class family but close enough to the crack maelstrom that he easily crosses over. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z His family was middle-class, and he grew up a Protestant in the Catholic south of Ireland, where he was, inevitably, an outsider. William Trevor, Spare Chronicler of Diminished Lives 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z But Mr. Paisley cares less about cultural politics than narratives: the stories, the telling details, that capture the texture of middle-class lives. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z The settings evoke a wistful vision of middle-class America — a playground in Chicago, a swimming pool in Villanova, Pa. The resulting images look more like vacation snapshots than studio portraits. Taking Pornography Low Tech 2010-10-01T20:58:00Z Store playlists are regularly chosen with middle-class customers' tastes in mind. Why our dislikes should be celebrated as much as our likes 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Pinckney grew up in a middle-class family, in the 1960s, when being black and middle class often meant being accused of “trying to act white,” he writes. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z That feels not like a luxury, indulgent, middle-class kind of whim. Cooking with Jamie Oliver is cheap, easy — and requires only one pan 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z For its mostly middle-class viewers, “Succession” offered both a backstage look at the lives of the ultrawealthy and the comforting assurance that maybe those lives, despite the expensive trinkets that adorned them, weren’t especially nice. ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z In the mid-1970s, middle-class parents, alarmed at finding stashes in fake Coke cans and hash pipes under mattresses, started banding together to talk about behavioral changes they saw in their weed-toking kids. The lonely lot of the anti-pot crusader Most middle-class so-called white people live in a world in which everything is okay. Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It is no longer the preserve of slim, middle-class city-dwelling women who work in offices and do pilates. The story of The Dress: how a £40 Zara frock stole the summer 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Gangsters have always seemed exotic to the middle-class public, but that doesn't mean audiences approve of them. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z School enrollment in Berkeley fell by nearly half in the 15 years after 1968, as middle-class white parents pulled their kids out of school in large numbers. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Rampell also writes that one of the goals of her work is to consider how books like Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” apply to middle-class women. Motherlode Blog: What Do Parents Mean When They Say They Want to Work Part Time? 2013-07-11T22:04:15Z It's set in a middle-class, upwardly mobile family in Philadelphia, led by a Baptist preacher who finds his ambitions thwarted by his nearest and dearest. This week's new theatre 2013-01-12T06:00:19Z There was a time when only white, middle-class kids thought they could be actors. 'Next!': the secretive world of casting directors 2013-05-21T18:30:01Z James is the rich, middle-class Protestant football star who draws the jealous attention of other, less accomplished boys. The Gamal by Ciarán Collins – review 2013-04-27T10:00:01Z The dynamics of a middle-class Baltimore family evolve as the family expands over decades. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Mark is from a white middle-class family in Manchester. This Week in Fiction: Tim Parks 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Sher grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Cape Town, and left South Africa at 19 to train as an actor in England. Stage Royalty Joined, and Separated, by Apartheid 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z A hedge fund billionaire paid $238 million for a new apartment in 2019, in a building constructed only after dozens of middle-class tenants were evicted from their apartments. How Income Inequality Has Erased Your Chance to Drink the Great Wines 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Concede that Christians want to conserve life, even if you believe their focus tends to be on the sanctity of the white middle-class lives of men and children. How to argue with your relatives about abortion: A few arguments that don’t work with pro-lifers and some that might 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Theater is itself a public space of sorts, and Ms. Drury wondered what it means for audiences, especially white, middle-class audiences, to consume stories about marginalized communities. In This Play About Race, ‘People Need to Be Uncomfortable’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z It was a brilliant way of putting us in touch with our inherent racism as well as informing Haley about the particular prejudicial makeup of his predominantly white and middle-class students. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The shock of recognition is tempered somewhat by the contrasts between the stark poverty many families faced in the 1930s and what struggling middle-class Americans are coping with today. Intiman Theatre dusts off Depression-era 'Paradise Lost' ? which speaks powerfully to us now 2010-03-17T23:20:00Z “My private life is just like the private life of any other middle-class American family,” he declared. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z It was about a middle-class girl whose parents get taken ill and she has to go and live on a council estate with her aunt. Naomie Harris: ‘I portray strong women because that’s what I know’ 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Mantello grew up Catholic in Rockford, Ill., in a middle-class household. Director Joe Mantello, Broadway’s Invisible Wizard 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z That the people onstage are middle-class or lower-middle-class folks — too rarely given ample time on American stages — makes the play all the more vital a contribution to contemporary drama. Review: Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat’ Examines Lives Unraveling by Industry’s Demise 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Advertisements for hair-removal products sprouted everywhere, and by the start of the second world war body hair had become disgusting to middle-class American women. Hair-erasing 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The Stooges were just four middle-class brats weaned on the American way of life by their schoolteacher parents. An initiation into Iggy Pop – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-04-30T14:30:19Z The Buchwald column was influential, he said, because it reinforced what many white male editors at the time thought: “They considered the idea that middle-class white women were oppressed in any way to be laughable.” Perspective | Abusive media moguls harmed more than just individual women. They shaped a misogynistic culture. 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z "But in down-to-earth William and nice, middle-class Kate, maybe the monarchy has chanced upon a marriage that can help it reinvent itself." William, Kate praised for being serious 2011-05-01T15:59:42Z There is definitely the sense among the middle-class people in this neighbourhood that they are improving the place. Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Ironic given that Eichler intended his homes to appeal to buyers on lower middle-class budgets. Roundup: SFMOMA's big donor agreement, housing and density in NorCal and SoCal, Peter Doig's strange trial 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The other film that kept returning to me was Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, centred as it is on the absurd rituals of a group of middle-class people. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z But, more fundamentally this was a get-together of the middle-class establishment paying tribute to those of their own who had attained the pinnacle of social success. Auctions: Art Buying Spree at a British Estate 2011-09-16T13:30:07Z Ms. Logan, by contrast, grew up in a middle-class family in the Palmetto Bay neighborhood. An Ailey Dancer Loyal to His Miami Roots and Mentor 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z “Happy Hour” is the story of a group of four middle-class women. A Five-Hour Japanese Film Captures the Agonizing Intimacies of Daily Life 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The first is the story of Ms. Iverson’s largely pastoral middle-class childhood. Book Review: ‘Full Body Burden’ by Kristen Iversen 2012-09-27T21:30:42Z We came from middle-class families in suburbs, not a nature background, so we were finding our life here and our art, and sort of merging the two.” House Proud: Jared Handelsman and Portia Munson Make Their Own Museum at Home 2012-09-19T21:51:29Z Sadness sits lightly on the small shoulders of Josephine, the heroine of “Nice Girl,” a tenderly drawn drama by Melissa Ross about stunted lives in a middle-class suburb of Boston. Review: In ‘Nice Girl,’ a Sudden Ray of Hope in a Dead-End Life 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z And getting in remains a preoccupation of both middle-class moviegoers and the filmmakers who cater to them. Admission Accomplished: 10 Great Getting-Into-College Movies 2013-03-25T09:45:07Z Every year, without fail, he asks for a Yoyo, one of those 60p rolls crafted out of pressed fruit and middle-class aspiration, and it never disappoints. My autistic son made me see the season anew – a Christmas tree is not a fish! 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z But her cool, enigmatic refinement obsessed Osborne in life exactly as Alison's measured, middle-class way defeats the enraged Jimmy in his will to possess or destroy her in the play. Pamela Lane obituary 2010-11-21T18:54:00Z However, as Harris points out, the way young children learn can vary surprisingly between working-class and middle-class children, and people from different ethnic backgrounds. ?Why won?t you answer me?? 2012-05-20T18:00:00Z These are narratives more commonly ascribed to the rural poor than middle-class college-bound suburbanites, and apparently they make the story more believable to some. “What it’s like to date your dad”: Why class markers matter in stories about taboo sexuality 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z More out of curiosity than conviction, she goes to a pilot meeting of a free-school initiative in Shepherd's Bush, headed by middle-class Nick and Lara. Little Platoons ? review 2011-01-25T18:30:04Z In this novel a secularized Somali Muslim couple enjoying a middle-class life in Norway take in the fundamentalist widow of their radicalized son, who died in a suicide bombing. New in Paperback: ‘Dear Los Angeles’ and ‘The Fifth Risk.’ 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Life and works Franz Kafka was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Prague in 1883. Fate of Franz Kafka's literary heritage turns into nightmare ruled on by judge 2010-07-19T20:43:00Z Meticulously arranged pantries appeal to middle-class sensibilities: Maybe you can't have a designer kitchen, but you can beautify your bulk food storage. Social media "pantry porn" becomes all the rage 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Particularly for educated, middle-class white people, it’s a strange point of pride — sort of in a negative way. ‘They Conflated “The Wire” With Reality’ 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z That was no great surprise, though; my mom lived on a suburban block in a middle-class neighborhood with lots of trees. The Ghosts in Our Machines 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Called The Party, it was an acidly funny chamber piece about middle-class London. Director Sally Potter: 'I've seen the grief Covid-19 causes' 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z These are challenging traditional bestsellers – classics, self-help and business "how to" books – and newer stars of Indian publishing whose works retell stories often drawn from the everyday experiences of middle-class Indian youth in simple language. Record advance 2013-03-04T19:00:52Z It’s a kind of magical-thinking aquamarine summer suburbia, a dreamy distillation of middle-class Americana, minus the drudgery of lawn mowing and dish washing. Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The atmosphere in the family’s home suggests both an aspiration to middle-class German respectability and some of the courtesy and formality that characterize traditional Anatolian society. | 'When We Leave': When Two Cultures Collide Under One Roof 2011-01-27T23:45:37Z I grew up in suburban Washington, D.C., the youngest of seven children in a comfortably middle-class Catholic home. My life in the cult: How “serving God” unraveled into sex abuse, child neglect and a waking nightmare 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z And then there’s the Hill District, Pittsburgh’s oldest black community, which was home for middle-class free blacks. Pittsburgh’s Underground Railroad, Preserved and Not 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The protagonist is Billy, a middle-class white kid navigating the social maelstrom of the 1960s and 1970s. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z What I really wanted to do with the novels was to paint a picture of her: a middle-class, piano-playing drug addict; literary, but debauched and out of control. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z Issues that I will not personally face because I am a white girl in the South in a middle-class family. High School Students Explain Why They Protest Anthems and Pledges 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Long before any labor-related grievances cropped up, it was “a middle-class phobia” — and contagion — that spread, stoked by the Mexican government. Treating a Historic Massacre as an Active Crime Scene 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z I vaguely remember its publication and recall, in my post-punk arrogance, feeling affronted that I should be so prominently featured in a wanky, intellectual, middle-class publication that was all about books. Alexei Sayle: 'I'm still full of hate' 2013-01-22T18:45:01Z One was too snooty for what was to be a middle-class sort of girl. Margot Stevenson, Prolific Broadway Actress, Dies at 98 2011-01-07T06:15:01Z If you are a middle-class person who has never lived in a poor area, it may not be obvious to you either that the chicken shop was actually selling drugs. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z Hamad calls upon “feminists who prioritize the concerns of white, middle-class women as though they are representative of all women” to recognize their myopic view of womanhood. Review | Ruby Hamad’s essay about White women’s tears went viral. ‘White Tears/Brown Scars’ delves deeper into performative victimhood. 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z It tells the story of four mild, middle-class men from suburban Atlanta who embark on a canoe trip, snaking down a remote Georgia river that will soon disappear beneath a dam. Books: ?Deliverance?: A Dark Heart Still Beating 2010-08-24T22:27:00Z This writer presented a view of middle-class American family life that I found both unsettling and deeply resonant. “Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z In fact, the happiest people I met on my journey across the country were middle-class people with good jobs that brought them in direct contact with their community. Gary Shteyngart on How Hedge Funders See the World 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The Wall Street Crash and Bailouts The financial crash devastated the middle-class, largely because its wealth is largely dependent on housing values. Five obscene reasons the rich grow richer 2012-10-01T14:29:00Z Rendell loves to have her well-bred middle-class characters dismiss the humanity of others, especially when their rancor is based on racial or religious prejudice. By the Book: Donna Leon 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z It is true that poor nations become happier as they become middle-class nations. Op-Ed Columnist: The Sandra Bullock Trade 2010-03-30T19:48:00Z Payne’s take on the workaday travails and existential anguish of generally humdrum middle-class Americans is insightful and tartly compassionate, although detractors often see his films as mocking or contemptuous. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z No one hassles anyone else, or judges them, for being in prison — that seems to only happen among middle-class folks outside. How Billy Idol’s ‘Rebel Yell’ Fueled a Debut Thriller 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z He was raised in a modest middle-class household before learning martial arts, which led to the movies. Nirpal Dhaliwal: My Bollywood bit part 2011-02-10T21:59:00Z Mantello’s staging provides a kaleidoscope of such resonant silences, which collectively compose a portrait of a family struggling to stay afloat, economically and emotionally, at a time of jarring middle-class insecurity. And the winner is ... the ensemble cast: How Broadway's best acting was a group effort 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The half-hour “Locator” takes place entirely in daylight, in middle-class milieus scattered across the Sun Belt, and shares its DNA with daytime self-help talk shows. Television: ?Runaway Squad? and ?The Locator? Make Hiding Hard 2010-04-02T22:40:00Z The middle-class lad throws his mobile into Lake Tanganyika to break away from his censorious mother; the child soldier casts his revolver into a river to signal his rejection of tribal violence. Africa United ? film review 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z The Razmuses were the kind of middle-class family whose support the new president’s success would live or die on. ‘I feel like this is the last shot’: A Kentucky family greets the Trump era 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Solid middle-class couples everywhere: gay, straight, romantic, platonic. Music Review: Depeche Mode’s Tour Stops at the Barclays Center 2013-09-08T21:46:59Z In fact, Space Ninety 8 can be considered a preservationist gesture, a middle-class beachhead against creeping luxury at every turn. Critical Shopper: Shopping at Space Ninety 8, the Urban Outfitters Concept Store in Williamsburg 2014-04-09T21:00:29Z In the memory play “Haunted,” her latest, she revisits characters from an early television play of hers about the strains in a middle-class British marriage. The Week Ahead: Dec. 5-11 2010-12-03T15:15:00Z In Afternoon Delight, a film in official competition at the festival, Temple plays a pole-dancing stripper who is rescued by a middle-class mother in need of a nanny. Sundance star to play Princess Margaret in royal film 2013-01-19T14:08:12Z The Social Security payroll tax cut enacted this year also will end, as will the exemption of millions of middle-class families from the alternative minimum tax. FDA approves diet pill 2012-06-27T17:50:00Z Generations follows black middle-class characters working in advertising. Cast of South African soap sacked 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z But facts matter not a second hand to obsessive collectors, almost all of whom are male, in a market where $15,000 models are deemed “middle-class” timepieces. $39,000 for a wristwatch? Collectors don’t blink, and even go for seconds. 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z More interesting than the bloodshed, somehow, is the middle-class ordinariness with which Mr. Cunningham invests the characters’ conversations; they seem to be inciting the killer’s fury by chatting about vitamins and playing Monopoly. The Times Critics' Guide to the 'Friday the 13th' Movies 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z With its portrait of the kind of middle-class, multigenerational abode that’s increasingly rare in growing cities like Mumbai, “About Love” feels like a microcosmic epic, an entire world captured in a grain of sand. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z When it's a middle-class white man, the way we talk about it in America is to focus on mental illness. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The whole film is a hyperbolic, moral panic middle-class paranoid fever dream. Wes Craven's brutal truths about sex, death and childhood 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z It's an exhortation that might appeal to the scads of middle-class homeowners on the brink of foreclosure. 2010-02-11T22:30:00Z In the late nineteen-thirties, the sisters, unmarried and in their thirties, were living at home with their parents, in a middle-class London suburb. Ida and Louise Cook, Two Unusual Heroines of the Second World War 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The Herzogs' divorce becomes a middle-class appurtenance indeed: when Alexander finally leaves, the vast machinery of Ganna's institutionalised assumptions, her bourgeois will to power, cranks into action. My First Wife by Jakob Wassermann – review 2012-12-06T08:00:02Z He used to refer to them as “the O’Reillys,” a middle-class family that doesn’t really follow politics that closely but spends a lot of time discussing things at the kitchen table. ‘He’s not that kind of fighter.’ Can play-by-the-rules Chuck Schumer win on Trump’s turf? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z If only the beer had not ended with an unnecessary war in Iraq, the drowning of New Orleans and the liquidation of middle-class wealth, personality appeal might make sense as a criterion for political evaluation. Donald Trump and the hobbling of shame: David Foster Wallace warned us about reality TV and we didn’t listen 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Souad instead lives with her family in a middle-class home, where she struggles in school and stays busy with domestic chores. All Together Now for Tribeca Festival’s 20th Anniversary Edition 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z He is relentlessly disdainful about his own origins in lower-middle-class Bexhill-on-Sea, from which he escaped by way of a breezily won scholarship to the elite Lancing school and then a glide into Cambridge. ‘The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir,’ by David Hare 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Compared with the dire conditions found in Faridpur and Reynosa, the women who work at the Fish Tank have almost middle-class lives. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z At the time, they were charged with selling $300,000 condominiums, and they still dabble in the middle-class market — whatever that means in Los Angeles. The Power Brokers of Beverly Hills 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z I am a white, middle-class Englishman, openly trespassing on the music and myth of the American south. Hugh Laurie plays first ever blues gig 2011-03-23T00:05:03Z I'd characterize my hesitance as an effort to preserve "middle-class respectability." My mom has always foraged. A year into the pandemic, I understand why 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z If Mr. Berger had a literary mission, it was to mine the anarchic paranoia that he found underlying American middle-class life. Thomas Berger, ‘Little Big Man’ Author, Is Dead at 89 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Whitfield is completely relatable as an intelligent, clean-cut family guy who makes, hilariously and pitifully, one terrible decision after another while trying to save his imploding middle-class lifestyle. ‘Poets’ at Book-It: an Everyman’s hilarious downward spiral 2013-06-14T04:08:58Z Our economic policy must be driven by a commitment to make every job a middle-class job, regardless of the educational level of the worker. Can schools fix our economy? 2012-08-05T12:00:00Z The same approach defined middle-class projects like Co-op City in the Bronx. Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z On “Atlanta,” we meet Earn, a Princeton dropout who grew up in a middle-class family and who works at an airport kiosk. What TV Says About Race and Money 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z In his 2010 film, “Dogtooth,” a middle-class couple raises three children according to an elaborate set of codes and rituals that include assigning new meanings to common words. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The term “angry young men” was applied to a generation of British and Irish writers from working- or middle-class backgrounds, though it was not a label Mr. Wesker embraced. Arnold Wesker, British Playwright Known for Working-Class Dramas, Dies at 83 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Looks like a middle-class grocer … I was surprised by his smile. TV review: Storyville: Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones; Michael Johnson: Survival of the Fastest 2012-07-05T21:20:01Z It's less revolution than it is gentrification: a narrowing of the focus to a set of values deemed acceptable to a largely male, middle-class audience. Did gloomy hipsters ruin R&B in 2012? 2012-12-29T00:06:55Z What is a middle-class life is a very good life in India for people who decided to go over. Hari Kondabolu: "It works in the interest of those with power" to divide people of color 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z “It’s going to be middle-class teachers in an area that was previously either industrial or deserted or dodgy, or all three.” Richard Meier Is Now Focusing on New Jersey Projects 2014-01-24T22:07:52Z But while these brief rentals are traditionally found at budget hotels, the enterprises today involve higher-end properties and are targeting middle-class to affluent customers for considerably different purposes. Want to Relax in a Nice Hotel for 15 Minutes? An App Can Make That Happen 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s particularly notable, given the fact that candidate Obama, in 2008, swore up and down that he wouldn’t raise taxes on middle-class Americans. Obama Administration: Obamacare's Individual Mandate 'is a Tax' 2012-07-06T16:15:36Z The booksellers’ arguments are maybe not so far from the larger macroeconomic point about Amazon and the middle-class recovery. Obama and Amazon: Booksellers Speak Out 2013-07-31T19:09:25Z Much later, he discovered that his mother was Jewish and had hidden this out of a desire to fit into middle-class Britain. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Does he mean to suggest that to a middle-class black man, all other “classes” of African-Americans appear as a contaminating force in their assimilated lives? Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z “I think a lot of middle-class, middle-aged journalists like putting this preposterous intellectual scaffolding on it, saying it’s a bit like Shakespeare or Jane Austen,” Mr. Abell said. If It’s on ‘Love Island,’ Britain’s Talking About It 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The Blooms’ precarious middle-class perch is imperiled when Gabe announces that he can no longer pay his grandchildren’s tuition at a yeshiva because he needs the money for an experimental treatment. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The musical, which is unabashedly politically correct and at times unbearably sappy, tells Obama's story from two different perspectives —that of his family and that of the residents of a middle-class suburban Chicago neighborhood. 2010-01-21T17:20:00Z Bush, for example, was raised in a middle-class San Diego neighborhood. Why Sports in LA Are in Disarray 2011-04-22T09:00:00Z Junked almost entirely is the old book, which focused on a middle-class kid from the provinces who leaves home to join the glitzy, decadent London club scene. Rosie's Bum Rap: In Defense of Taboo 2010-05-11T16:35:00Z What does matter is the survival of one white and saintly middle-class family. World War Z unleashes an unedifying breed of zombie 2013-06-17T13:58:58Z After the second world war and white flight from city to suburb, the lawn became an aspirational symbol of white middle-class homeownership. Born to rewild: why now is the perfect time to make your lawn an eco-paradise 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z You wouldn't expect an organic store to be in a place like this, they're normally more suited to middle-class areas. Manchester international festival: an urban farm feeding a deprived area 2013-07-08T17:55:02Z Nor is our journey in motherhood and middle-class angst and bliss told in cutesy books or on network sitcoms about modern family. Motherlode Blog: Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home 2012-06-19T01:02:47Z For those people and their spiritual descendants, summers on the Cape were intended as escapes from the fetters of what Ruth Hatch called “middle-class materialistic values.” The Calming Quiet of Outer Cape Cod 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Sometimes they back off abruptly; sometimes they explode in frustration or anger and then retreat into the safety of clichés and engrained middle-class good manners. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z One of the first federal public housing projects for black people, Liberty Square had indoor plumbing and electricity — a rarity — and attracted middle-class strivers who had been hemmed into substandard segregated neighborhoods. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Ayer's military and blue-collar background stand in contrast to many of his contemporaries — directors who had middle-class backgrounds and went to good colleges. 'Fury' director David Ayer's rugged style was a hit with Brad Pitt 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Locke’s mother, Mary, provided a tenuously middle-class life for Alain with her salary as a teacher, and raised her son to play the aristocrat from the time he was young. The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Waves, Shults’s third feature film, follows a seemingly ordinary middle-class family in Florida. How Waves unpicks the pressures of ‘black excellence’ 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Born to a middle-class Irish Catholic family in Depression-era Massachusetts, Bill was raised just outside Boston; as a little boy, he loved fashion more than he longed for anything as unimaginative as social acceptance. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Parts of it cut so close to lived female experience — the white, urban, middle-class version, anyway — that they hardly feel like fiction at all. Review: In ‘Athena,’ Two Teenage Fencers Parry Ordinary Life 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z A year later, Japan’s first weekly life-style magazine for youth, Heibon Punch, put Ivy League style and VAN Jacket in front of millions of middle-class kids. Stalking the Wild Madras Wearers of the Ivy League 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z It's clear that a posh pooch like Pumpkin is out of reach for the impoverished and middle-class civilians of that day. The value of Pumpkin on "The Gilded Age," descended from a breed that's all about the good life 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s got a ripe theme for Kingsolver, an unabashedly political writer, to pluck — that is, how poverty looms today for so many middle-class families, just around the corner, one misstep away. Barbara Kingsolver’s New Novel Moves Between the Distant Past and the Troubled Present 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z But they attend school alongside plenty of middle-class kids, and the school has a reputation for great teaching. While other countries turn Syrian refugees away, Canadians are taking them home 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Their backgrounds were largely upper middle-class, even if their childhoods seem to have been generally unhappy. Review | A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Despite having grown up middle-class, Ms. Lloyd concedes to being part of the exodus of blacks who saw limited opportunities at home. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Born into a modest middle-class family — his father was a bank employee — he had a cultured but conservative upbringing until his teens, when, he says, a family tragedy triggered a psychological rebellion. Special Report: Art in Perspective: A French Art Dealer's Risk Is Paying Off 2010-09-07T15:44:00Z Some said the literature only catered to whites and the Black middle-class. The Evolution of Black Music, and a Man’s Soul, in One Show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z And this latest is not the first batch of plays to depict the hardships of lower- and middle-class lives. Onstage, the Pain Behind the Political Posturing 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Instead, I wanted to photograph the largely white, middle-class Americans who buy and sell weapons in vast quantities. Photographer Zed Nelson's best shot 2010-09-01T21:30:00Z Proclaiming his belief in separatism, Ali had created “more apprehension” among middle-class, integrationist blacks “than Malcolm X.” “They’ve got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live”: Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Greene thought the socialists were "such bores", Yorke dreaded the raised taxes on his family business, Bowen couldn't bear "little middle-class Labour wets". The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z A pall of middle-class anxiety hangs over the characters’ lives as they try to turn mediocre cards into winning hands. Movie Review: ?Jeff, Who Lives at Home,? a Duplass Brothers Comedy 2012-03-15T22:12:53Z Other middle-class subsidies, such as to rail fares or university fees, may be targeted but not national museum entry. As they bow to London's arts mafiosi, the Tories still handcuff the provinces 2010-10-21T19:02:00Z Born in 1946, in Floral Park, Queens, Mapplethorpe grew up a white, middle-class Roman Catholic kid in the conservative, homophobic, racially divided America of the 1950s. Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z She grew up in the suburbs of Birmingham, England, feeling like an outsider: a Black girl in a “predominantly white middle-class neighborhood,” she recalled. Laura Mvula Set Her Sound Free. It Ended Up in the ’80s. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z They meet the residents' committee, and the play becomes a glittering display cabinet of middle-class pieties and liberal doublethink. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z King and his two siblings had the trappings of middle-class life in Atlanta: bicycles, a dog, allowances. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z “I’m a nice middle-class kid,” Ms. Smith said. For Artists, the Thrill of Grant Money Arrives With a ‘Now What’? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z He has written a satire of middle-class manners called Country Air, for his cast of fellow students at Downside School in Somerset. Edinburgh performers bid to reclaim the 'true spirit' of the fringe 2012-08-04T13:23:54Z Both films are portraits of white middle-class American families, the first set in Texas and stretching over 12 years, the second during a single Christmas holiday in Chicago. ‘Happy Christmas’ Stars Anna Kendrick 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The movie’s jaundiced depiction of multi-ethnic American society is anchored in its view of the North family as middle-class white people caught between a criminal underclass and an indifferent or contemptuous élite. “Peppermint,” Reviewed: Jennifer Garner Stars in an Ignorant, Racist Drug-Trade Revenge Film 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z For years, the drive for women’s suffrage was presented mainly as the story of middle-class white women and iconic national leaders like Anthony and Stanton. The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z He enjoyed playing the bad twin, Pedro, who lives literally and metaphorically outside conventional middle-class mores. Viggo Mortensen interview: 'If I think a film's beyond me – that's a good sign' 2013-05-28T18:30:01Z Phun lives in a mansion, with a staff of servants and a car at his disposal, while middle-class Noh rides a motorcycle. Boys in Love 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z As more middle-class parents think they are entitled to continue with all their favourite things despite the patter of tiny feet, I wonder where this will stop? Festivals are no place for children 2010-08-27T10:33:00Z About them, she writes, in the sort of homely prose that fills this book, “They were middle-class folks who loved God, family and their country.” Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z Los Angeles — It may be the last day of September, but here in a middle-class, suburban enclave where the new CW show “My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is filming, it’s Thanksgiving. The Great American Musical, Side B, in ‘My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Her mother considered automobiles too middle-class to be bothered with owning one. The Gimlet Eye: A Poor Little Rich Girl at Christmas 2010-12-21T20:37:10Z She writes beautifully about English middle-class life, about souls in tumult, about people whose lives have not turned out the way they’d hoped. ‘Summerwater’ Makes an Intimate Study of Social Class Out of a Long, Rainy Day 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Paterno’s undergraduate years at Brown University are dismissed in three gauzy pages and two broad anecdotes, one of them about this middle-class Brooklyn boy’s being mocked by snobs for wearing an unhip white sweater. Books of The Times: ‘Paterno’ by Joe Posnanski, a Biography of the Coach 2012-08-20T16:25:26Z Senior makes a persuasive case that middle-class children have been placed in a strange and unprecedented social position: at the top of the family hierarchy, with no responsibilities of their own. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z “Even as the Civil War commenced, Lincoln supported a program of direct government action to support his vision of America’s middle-class society.” How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Their makeover subjects are lower- and middle-class people who are, though it is rarely put this way, struggling financially. The New Spiritual Consumerism 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z As for gangster films, with their dreadful middle-class cringe, and uniquely distasteful celebration of working-class criminal mores, the less said the better, which is why The Sopranos was such a breath of fresh cordite. The debate: Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men? 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z “I think, in general, cinema is dominated by white, middle-class males,” he says. Director Cary Fukunaga: ‘I thought nothing could be as hard as True Detective, but Beasts of No Nation eclipsed it’ 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Jan is a university graduate with a good job, who lives in what she describes as “middle-class poverty” despite earning close to £40,000 a year. The great London property squeeze 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The crab cake, fat with pearlescent lumps and spiced with Old Bay, is the dish that middle-class Baltimore heralds and middle-class tourists seek. United Tastes: A Fried Favorite in Baltimore 2010-09-29T04:00:00Z “Roma,” based on events in Cuarón’s life, is about the relationship between a domestic worker and her employer, a middle-class Mexican family that is coming apart. Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Gasoline Alley” débuted in the Chicago Tribune in 1918, as a gag strip about the growing popularity of automobiles among middle-class Americans. An Old Comic Strip About Modern Fatherhood 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The characters are middle-class suburban grotesques, their strivings and self-delusions treated with a mixture of compassion and contempt. ‘Bad Tales’ Review: Suburban Dysfunction, Italian Style 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z As Mr. Frank pointed out, the “rebellion against middle-class style” had become mainstream. Was the Gap Ever Cool? A Look at 50 Years in Denim and Khaki 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Although our family homes weren’t far apart as the crow flies, our paths would rarely cross within the social jungle of middle-class Britain. His Family Had Money. Mine Didn’t. 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z They were born and raised in Toronto, by middle-class parents who had immigrated from India. How to Date a Lot of Billionaires 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Born in a Parisian suburb in 1972, he is the youngest of four brothers in a middle-class family. French Twist: Jean Dujardin, a Comic Who Does Nuance 2011-11-20T01:57:20Z You might suspect that with Austen — a white middle-class British woman writing two hundred years ago — it would be all about identifying differences in a men’s prison classroom. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z GD: Of course individual women can be empowered – I'm extremely empowered in my life, but just because I, as a white, middle-class educated woman, am empowered does not mean we have women's liberation. Can sex films empower women? 2011-03-05T09:00:01Z Like most middle-class families in Japan those days, her parents, who ran a flower nursery, were eager to simply get her married. AP Interview: Artist Kusama sees the world in dots 2012-08-08T12:34:11Z I don’t understand why someone as disdainful of middle-class comforts as Anthony would have chosen to stay there. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z His Catholic, middle-class family lived in a suburb of Boston. Bill Cunningham, Style Maven, Leaves Behind a Memoir and It’s ‘a Real Dilly’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Bell joined me on "Salon Talks" to detail the complexities of his personal struggles when analyzing Cosby's legacy and being a Black middle-class child in a time when Cosby was king. W. Kamau Bell on going up against Bill Cosby in Showtime series: "It is scary" 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z It's salutary to discover that both her cosy in-jokes about middle-class silliness and her sharp political fury over sexual inequality and the divide between rich and poor remain remarkably undated. Christmas gifts 2012: the best fiction 2012-11-29T08:30:02Z A story about a middle-class couple in Iran ... separating. 5 favorite marriage movies with Barry Mendel 2012-12-20T20:28:12Z Stuck, uncomfortably, in the middle, is Sasha, the middle-class New England girl who has married their brother, Cord, and, despite all signs to the contrary, is referred to as “the Gold Digger” by her sisters-in-law. A Successful Editor Turns Debut Author, Surprising Nearly Everyone 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z But most of us understand that films are a form of daydreaming – and that, deep down inside, the norms of dull middle-class life are just fine with us. Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z At first it seemed to be mainly to delight upper- and middle-class antiquarians. Men from the Ministry by Simon Thurley – review 2013-06-20T10:01:01Z But his father, Joe Biden Sr., lost his job after World War II and abused alcohol, struggling financially for years before getting back on his feet and finding middle-class work selling cars near Wilmington, Delaware. Joe Biden, a father’s love and the legacy of "daddy issues" among presidents 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z But the real trouble, according to Seib, began when Reagan’s coalition was supplanted by nationalist, populist forces that capitalized on middle-class insecurities. The Many Varieties of Donald Trump 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z “That whole persona of Sam as a cowboy — he was as middle-class as all of us. We were all tremendously ambitious, but we didn’t easily admit it.” How Sam Shepard Hit Downtown New York and Reinvented Himself 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Semugoma now lives a middle-class life in Cape Town with his partner. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z At the same time, pace Orwell, Angel Pavement is only incidentally a story of lower-middle and middle-class London life. JB Priestley: adventures of the 'tradesman of letters' 2012-11-09T22:55:06Z “In this middle-class Jewish family, I was the maverick. I wasn’t docile. I never fit in,” she said. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The idea is to do away with the perception that the BBC is "a closed door for writers who are not necessarily white middle-class". Pass notes No 2,834: The sitcom 2010-08-22T19:00:00Z As a teenager, she wanted out of her conservative, middle-class family, and she found escape, as so many did in the mid-to-late 1960s, in music and drugs and sex. Review: Chrissie Hynde’s ‘Reckless’ Details a Rocker’s Life 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z And it’s clear the action exists in a social strata of middle-class, educated white people, with more options than others with less money and mobility. ‘Rapture’ revisits struggle to have it all 2013-07-23T00:15:20Z Even more so, in its concern with Britain's middle-class and its morality under pressure, Versailles evokes the Edwardian playwright Harley Granville-Barker. Versailles play not a history lesson 2014-02-28T12:16:20Z The white, middle-class feminist art movement granted entry but kept her at arm’s length. Bliss and Anger in Balance: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z This charade is partly out of middle-class indoctrination and partly because I don’t want my mother to be right, but today, pretending that I am not an insomniac and a slob feels arduous. The First of the Year 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Given that so much of the topical comedy landscape is dominated by middle-class white guys, it's great to hear current events being cut down to size from a different perspective. This week's new live comedy 2012-10-05T23:05:20Z “It was a suburban, kind of middle-class school, I would say, almost all white students,” Lucie Carroll Medbery, now a retired teacher, said. “A Lady for President?” Third Graders Respond 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z And so a middle-class set-piece takes on the color of a tale by Georges Simenon. In Yasmina Reza’s Novel, a Dinner Party Descends Into Chaos — and Then Tragedy 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z With costumes by Gideon Davey, Saul’s people mostly wear middle-class, everyday suits and housedresses; the Philistines look a little Turkish, with the men in their fez hats and the women in head scarves. Music Review: ‘David et Jonathas,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-04-18T21:56:57Z The development, while adding needed dwelling units, has had profoundly negative impact on middle-class and not rich people. New York only wants investment bankers 2012-07-28T16:00:00Z It's sometimes brilliant – but as another middle-aged, middle-class sleight-of-hand expert takes to the stage, the sense of it all being a cosy parlour game is hard to avoid. Trick questions: Dynamo and Penn and Teller have brought very different magic styles to our screens 2011-07-29T09:44:00Z But then — at least in my middle-class corner of the American South — everybody started watching “MTV Cribs.” How ‘MTV Cribs’ Rewired My Brain, and Maybe Yours Too 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Both professions might cause a person’s feet to hurt at the shift’s conclusion but also draw middle-class salaries. Sorry to burst your bubble, but don’t all Americans live in their own little worlds? 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Such a condition made her virtually ostracised in middle-class England in the 19th century. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z Growing up in a middle-class household in segregated Washington, D.C., he began producing plays in college at Howard University. ‘Soul!’ Brought Black Culture to TV in 1968. A New Doc Tells Its Story. 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z It's also patronising to say that only middle-class women might want careers – women from all backgrounds aspire to stimulating, well-paid work. Do Marissa Mayer's maternity plans make her a fit role model for women? 2012-07-21T23:05:56Z “All Rise” is based on the novel “Monster” about a young middle-class Harlem kid who finds himself on the wrong side of a serious crime. Jeffrey Wright on ‘The Goldfinch,’ ‘Westworld’ and James Bond 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z It's a highly schematic piece about violence, bullying, pacifism and turning the other cheek that begins with the experience of two 11-year-old, middle-class lads from troubled families successfully confronting their classroom tormentor. In a Better World ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:31Z Lincecum grew up 20 minutes from downtown Seattle in the middle-class suburb of Renton, Wash. He comes from a long line of physical and athletically gifted men. T Magazine: Little Big Man 2011-03-11T18:01:47Z Almost all of the children are exquisitely groomed in what looks like Dutch middle-class attire from the 60s and surrounded by an almost perfect scene of tropical nature; quite a wondrous contrast in itself. Ruud van Empel's strange creations 2013-03-20T12:17:00Z A few pleasing pieces of the kind seen in traditional British middle-class homes appeared at wide intervals, amid a mass of indifferent furniture. Auctions: Seesaw Bidding Early in the Season 2011-09-09T11:00:09Z What the honest middle-class bagel is really doing, perhaps, is acting as a coverup for her role in popularizing a one-percenter’s dessert. Cynthia Nixon’s Cinnamon-Raisin Bagel and the Faux Food Faux Pas 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z In short, the impoverished Lily Bart needs to marry rich while middle-class Ivy Lin chooses to. Review | Susie Yang’s ‘White Ivy’ is an entertaining character study of a social climber with a secret 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z "Rich people, middle-class people and poor people all are in need of understanding how charity really works." "We've got a Marvel movie here": Stephen Gyllenhaal reframes the not-for-profit battle for justice 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z She lives a typical middle-class life with her doting parents until her mother starts attending a mysterious storefront church in Council Bluffs, presided over by a dirty, unkempt young man. In 'Universal Harvester,' John Darnielle walks into cornfields, family and horror 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z He comes from a wealthy, middle-class background: his father was a successful lawyer; his brothers are a surgeon and a banker, his sister is a dentist. God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z Mr. Adikoesoemo was born into a middle-class family in East Java during the early 1960s, at the height of Indonesia’s political and economic turmoil in the transition to the rule of the dictator Suharto. Thanks to One Man’s Collection, Jakarta Now Has a World-Class Museum 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z This time it’s a comfortable foursome from Houston getting away from it all on Native American land in North Carolina, grinning middle-class people overdressed for “roughing it” in high-end gear from REI. Fading into the woods with D’Amour’s mysterious ‘Cherokee’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z And many of the best works — by Cheever, Salinger and their fellow luminaries — were about the malaise lurking behind the façade of white middle-class contentment. “Brad’s Status” feels like a movie about America in 2017, but it’s more timeless 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z It makes her analyses of the movies this season feel particularly incisive, such as when she describes "Fatal Attraction" through the imagined economic precarity of the white middle-class family man during Reagan. Sex and the cinema girl: Karina Longworth dives into '80s and '90s erotic films, revealing herself 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z It must be those awful middle-class suckers and politicians, those lily-white lawyers with their hypocritical standards, hiding behind white middle-class morality while doing their own kind of sanctified, government-approved grifting. Her dad was a con man 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z Born in 1972, she was the daughter of a journalist and a nurse, a middle-class girl with high-class ambition. Can Spain’s monarchy be saved? It’s up to King Felipe VI and his commoner queen. 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z He was 27, which he described as “a dreadfully uncomfortable age for a middle-class cultural guerrilla.” Andrew Sarris, Film Critic, Dies at 83 2012-06-20T17:00:26Z Elizabeth and Armen survive "the slaughter, starvation and disease" relatively unscathed, travel to the U.S., and live the American dream of middle-class prosperity and family. 'The Sandcastle Girls': lingering ghosts of the Armenian genocide 2012-07-11T20:08:03Z Early on, Mr. Campbell toyed with the idea of a middle-class life. Up Close: Up Close: Scott Campbell, Tattoo Artist, Expands to Fine Art 2010-04-15T01:16:00Z At university she studied law, and when she took up a position with the board for agrarian reform in Sicily, she seemed destined for solid middle-class employment. Elvira Sellerio obituary 2010-08-23T17:52:00Z Mr. Virzi competed for the Oscar in 2010, with “The First Beautiful Thing,” a mixture of comedy and drama about an impending death in a middle-class family. A Portrait of Italy Today Based on an American Thriller 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Convinced that I was doing the “right thing,” I spent a year botching Excel spreadsheets and crying in office bathroom stalls. This is the American middle-class 20-something’s dream, I told myself. From Harvard to webcam girl 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z Some of its middle-class problems spill over into more universal ones; others remain haughtily, realistically, rarefied. The Souvenir: how Joanna Hogg humanises 'middle-class problems' 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z As witnessed and experienced by a middle-class protagonist — the requisite sensitive artist — the moneyed setting is convincing. 'Affluenza' tries for 'Great Gatsby,' comes up shortchanged 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The design – the play is set in middle-class America – was hyperrealistic, as if the space were sculpted, and within it people could attain astonishing heights of perception and accusation. The best performance I've ever seen: Frank McGuinness | Stage 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Back at that time there was a lot of thought that it was better for poor children to be raised in middle-class homes, so she was taken in by a foster family…. SCOTUS’ shameful eugenics history: “We don’t provide the kind of justice that we claim to in our society” 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z There is a minor uproar in Houston, where they visited the author Larry McMurtry in his staid, middle-class neighborhood, and the mentally unstable Stark Naked went missing. | 'Magic Trip': Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters 2011-08-04T19:00:07Z I mourn the old Seattle, the unpretentious middle-class town I moved to in the 1980s that was swallowed whole by the tech boom. TV writer Maria Semple pens hilarious sendup of Seattle's affluent 2012-08-09T21:50:04Z Instead, its contestants tend to be mild, suburban, middle-class. Britain soldiers on, bakes off: “Great British Baking Show” projects a happier image for fans 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z You might see movies about middle-class families playing piano in Tehran, but that's not the whole truth. "Holy Spider" examines a "serial killer society," in which Iranian sex workers are targeted 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “Wish I Was Here,” which studies the turmoil of a middle-class Los Angeles family, is the same deluxe fast food disguised as haute cuisine. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Families, divorces, weddings, teen angst, middle-age malaise, middle-class guilt and female friendships -- these remain the focus of filmmakers who lack the resources to take us to Pandora or wow us with visual magic. 2010-01-29T07:18:00Z One remarked that so far she had found little for her because so much was "white and middle-class", and the other said that she was drowning in cuteness. Edinburgh festival: day four at the fringe 2012-08-09T12:33:16Z Museum administrators just had to hope the protesters reminded “genteel, middle-class liberals” who took steps to avoid permanent damage, he added. How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling. 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The rural populists forged alliances with urban workers and middle-class progressives. A perfectly timed book on populism 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Franco, by contrast, grew up in California in an artsy, middle-class home and found success in acting in his late teens. James Franco: ‘I was certainly taking myself too seriously before. But who doesn’t?’ 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z That context also implicates Mari’s concerned, middle-class parents. Wes Craven's brutal truths about sex, death and childhood 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Being white and middle-class myself, I’d like to see other narratives. Mom-Coms Latch On to the Raw Reality of New Motherhood 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s a radically idealistic approach, more in keeping, maybe, with the life choices of Frog and Toad, who sometimes just fall asleep outside, in the swamp, than with the lives of contemporary middle-class parents. The Book That Taught Me What I Want to Teach My Daughter 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Pleasantville is one such landscape: a middle-class development of the 1940s, when African Americans were not welcome in other neighborhoods. Attica Locke channels bitter political memories into 'Pleasantville' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Your goal is to lure a bunch of middle-class white women to an arena for a nefarious plot. Perspective | Reese Witherspoon is selling frilly Southern womanhood, and I’ve been sucked in, y’all 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z I felt my family had come across a bit like royalty, when actually we were much more middle-class. My Muse and me 2012-05-27T17:01:01Z I came from the radical feminist movement, and being a white middle-class academic woman with a specialty in gender studies can be problematic. Theater: Tassel-Twirling Gets a Feminist Touch 2011-11-08T13:30:07Z “This is like Paris in the 1920s when you had people like Hemingway and Fitzgerald leaving their middle-class lives in the U.S. to hang out at the Paris Ritz,” Ms. Jones said. In Southeast Asia, Luxury Hotel Bargains Aren’t Hard to Find 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z On weekends in the gentrified downtown industrial zone of Maboneng, where the weekly Neighborgoods Market and Arts on Main festivals take place, the new, racially integrated, middle-class South Africa again goes on parade. South Africa aims to live the dream of equality for all 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z His own aim is entirely clear: "I think that if I can make middle-class readers angry that is a good thing to do." Christos Tsiolkas: 'There's love in this book' 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Restrepo was born and raised in Medellín, the son of middle-class parents who studied mechanical engineering in college. Art born of the drug wars: Camilo Restrepo on 'narco bananas' and pen-on-paper violence 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile he dreams up names for Hitler – "the middle-class Antichrist" or "the Machiavelli for chambermaids" – and rails against the Prussian mindset which allowed such a man to thrive. Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck – review 2013-03-26T15:23:23Z He writes with elegiac wit about middle-class, mostly educated men and women whose lives have begun to grind them down. Jeffrey Eugenides’s Short Stories Salvage Wit From Life’s Grind 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z In 1858, Henry sued Isabella for divorce under the new Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857, which made divorce accessible to middle-class Britons for the first time. “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z Its nostalgia — for a suburban, middle-class social order of crew-cut dads, stay-at-home moms, station wagons and cigarettes, and also for idealistic, robustly funded federal-government programs — is palpable. Review: ‘First Man’ Takes a Giant Leap for Man, a Smaller Step for Movies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z My father's family was middle-class, liberal and nonconformist and that, I was told, was a most desirable thing. Family life: My religious grandfather, the Beatles and Gran's Hungarian pancakes 2013-07-06T06:30:10Z Born to middle-class parents in Dhaka, Mr. Alam was 15 in 1971, when a civil war broke out and culminated in the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan. Using His Camera as a Witness and Weapon 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Too many white middle-class Americans, victimized by globalization, are struggling. At a Public School in Denver, Refugee Children Find Hope and Frustration 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Swedish director Östlund is best known for his previous film, Force Majeure, which also addressed the toxic nature of middle-class guilt. Cannes 2017: Ruben Östlund wins Palme d'Or for The Square 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The road that Tasmania chooses will be critical as Australia seeks to fulfill lofty ambitions to become a "food bowl" for a rapidly growing middle-class in Asia. Even in isolated, pristine Tasmania, pressure to allow GMO farming 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “Mailer had a middle-class respect for social obligations,” says J. Michael Lennon, the author’s biographer and the editor of this book. ‘Selected Letters,’ Norman Mailer’s Correspondence 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z He is the son of an upper middle-class Northern black mother and a father with obscure working-class Southern origins. Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Even as a middle-class white woman, Durr feared public exposure of her beliefs. “Finally, we demanded, ‘Let my people go'”: Remembering the bravery of Rosa Parks, on the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Both were uncouth middle-class guys tormented by class resentments. Books of The Times: The Supersnooper Pursuing the Paranoid Politician 2010-09-28T22:31:00Z Grange Hill was made at the BBC, by some very nice middle-class folk. The media class, not the middle class, are the BBC's problem 2011-01-26T12:39:16Z Do you think writing from the perspective of a middle-class white women makes it easier for people from a similar background to understand a criminal justice system that does not target them or their communities? Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z The urgent need of our age is not individual self-actualization or even a really innovative artisanal cocktail; it is to hold on to that middle-class society the counterculture thought was so soulless and unfulfilling. Hipsters, they’re just like us! “Normcore,” Sarah Palin, and the GOP’s big red state lie 2014-04-27T11:00:00Z The site of the first free black community in America now abuts a middle-class St. Augustine neighborhood. In Florida, Solemn Shadows of the Early Underground Railroad 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It is about middle-class life in 1990s Nigeria, boys coming of age amid the lure of violence and the pull of young love. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z The events of the ’80s unfold in black-and-white, a comment on Faciolince’s more embittered worldview relative to that of his idyllic middle-class childhood characterized by boundless affection and an exposure to the arts. ‘Memories of My Father’ Review: Death of a Patriarch 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z He hopes to transform middle-class users’ attitude to the drug. The white stuff: why Britain can’t get enough cocaine 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Deb and Chip, a pair of middle-class newlyweds who met on a speed date, go on a solidly middle-class honeymoon to a Caribbean resort. Books to Watch Out For: November 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Filipino maids and domestic helpers from other Southeast Asian countries are common among middle-class Hong Kong families, let alone the super wealthy. HK star Lau channels China earnings to local films 2011-03-01T09:31:04Z You know, he’s living a pretty good middle-class life. How to raise successful children — advice from parents lucky enough to know 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z In The Refuge, Poupard plays Louis, a middle-class dropout who ODs in the opening reel from tainted heroin in the family's smart Parisian apartment, alongside his pregnant girlfriend, Mousse. The Refuge 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z He grew up in Queens, with middle-class parents, neither of whom attended college. Up Close: A Gay Rights Power Player Who Wields a Mighty Phone 2011-06-29T22:15:49Z Dean, his adult self tells us, grew up in a safe, self-reliant, middle-class Black neighborhood that set him up for success. Can ‘The Wonder Years’ Break Through the White Noise of Nostalgia? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The gallery was part of Boydell’s larger entrepreneurial effort to promote a distinctly English school of art to middle-class consumers. For a Shakespeare Anniversary, an Online Re-Creation of a 1796 Show 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z And yet, however ubiquitous shaming may appear, it doesn't affect everyone equally — which Ronson's almost exclusive focus on white middle-class targets obscures. Books take two views on shame and its place in the modern age 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z It’s the product of the protagonist, Cleo, scrubbing the driveway and cleaning up dog mess, which her employers, a middle-class Mexican family, chide her for not removing promptly. Oscar contender Roma stirs up nostalgia and guilt in Mexico’s middle class 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Politics were discussed by his middle-class family, but the conversation stayed inside the home. 'Kiss' at the Odyssey: A rising Chilean playwright explores what gets lost in translation 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Fannie was able to buy the trappings of middle-class life while laying the foundation for generational wealth. Mama Was a Numbers Runner 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z It draws pupils by lottery from across the city, many from middle-class homes, while kids in the surrounding, struggling neighbourhood often do not make it and go to Dallas F Nicholas instead. ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z The signs were all around us: the knotty, urbane films of Spike Lee; the punkish bravado of Fishbone; all the artsy, middle-class kids exploring identities that weren’t beholden to readymade signifiers like “Africa and jazz.” No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The six mostly middle-aged, middle-class gentlemen who constitute the main object of study are together on a yacht, and some of the strange things they do might be ascribed to confinement in small quarters. Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ the Manly Games Played on the Aegean 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Her principal interest is the middle-class home — “a semipublic reception space” as she calls it, in a rare lapse into jargon. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z This year’s update will “help grow middle-class wages and put $12 billion more ... in the pockets of hardworking Americans over the next 10 years,” said the president. Work Advice: What the new overtime rule might mean for you 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z A new book by British journalist Laurie Penny fervently argues that middle-class women airing their angst is not enough. Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Her character, Maria del Carmen, a middle-class homemaker living on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, is first seen preparing and serving an elaborate feast for a houseful of guests. | 'Puzzle': Solving Puzzles to Help With the Riddle of Midlife 2011-05-26T21:26:17Z Zuckerman does an admirable job of selling this reckless choice as a combination of Steve’s white guilt, bravado and the lure of venturing outside his middle-class comfort zone. One black kid, one white kid and the riveting friendship that unfolds onstage in 'Dutch Masters' 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z A new museum on the outskirts of Charleston, S.C., will focus on the lives of slaves owned by middle-class farmers. McLeod Plantation Museum Tells the Story of the South 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The décor shifts from a snug middle-class home to a motel in the boom town Las Vegas and finally to a ghost town in the California desert, reflecting Webb’s developing madness and isolation. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z This is the real world of middle-class New York as it has rarely been depicted, with its economic pressures, real estate woes, strained relationships and cramped space. Critic’s Notebook: The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season 2014-04-15T16:18:57Z Six years later, at the age of 49, he married a middle-class Eastbourne girl a few days after her 21st birthday. The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde's Nemesis by Linda Stratmann – review 2013-04-17T13:00:03Z I joked in my teens that I’m catnip for middle-class women, and that’s somehow still a constant nag. My dad said I wasn’t black enough. At last, I know what he meant | Raven Smith 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z “While I Was Waiting,” about the travails of a middle-class family in Damascus, is one of several international plays planned for this summer’s festival, which will run from July 10 to 30. Travel Ban Threatens a Lincoln Center Festival Play 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The gains of younger generations of African-Americans have meant that middle-class lives are possible for some. A Marriage Upended, a Life Destroyed 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z For women, a middle-class existence was defined by shift dresses and merciless foundation garments. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Also, the cost of medical training is so expensive that talented but poor/ middle-class students might opt out. The Real Burning Man 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The disease creeps into the story via newspaper headlines and local gossip, a tiny detail among the routines of Midwestern, middle-class family life. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z “Perhaps I’ve only ever been a middle-class boy trapped in a working-class life.” Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z It’s a satire of the middle-class middle-aged white-male entitlement and privilege that all the big dramas treat as the stuff of life.” Rate Culture 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Such celebrity is a far cry from Wang's middle-class childhood as the son of Taiwanese immigrants in upstate New York. Can Leehom Wang transcend China and America's pop cultures? 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Other say it provides job training and a chance for low-income people to work alongside middle-class volunteers. ‘There’s a dignity to this place’: Inside the world of pay-what-you-can restaurants 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Wasicsko’s efforts to develop public housing in a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood are met with heated protests, forcing the mayor to navigate the tricky path between justice and politics. Watch the Trailer for the New David Simon HBO Miniseries 'Show Me a Hero' 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z While pundits have often railed against the Mercury Prize for an alleged middle-class bias, some now accuse it of attempting "to cover the waterfront". Is music tribalism dead? 2011-07-23T23:07:50Z A running theme in these eloquent essays, most of which appeared in The New York Review of Books and incorporate political reportage with personal history, is the contradictory nature of middle-class black life. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Thus, the educated, middle-class parents whose involvement might change the school culture, raise the test scores and improve the performance and reputation of the school instead choose to send their kids anyplace but here. Motherlode Blog: Why I Want to Choose the ‘Disadvantaged’ Local School (and Why I Might Not) 2013-05-30T18:30:20Z So is it fair to say that “family values” merged a diversity of issues that mattered specifically to conservative, middle-class, white, evangelical Christians? The rise and fall of “family values”: How “religious freedom” became the rallying cry of the Christian right 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z He also became an exemplar of the white man in charge of shows about middle-class black life: “Amen,” “Sparks,” “The Good News.” Television Review: ‘Belle’s,’ a New TV One Sitcom 2013-01-31T23:00:11Z From start to finish, JK Rowling's main area of conflict is between the selfish middle-class villagers and the noble savages on the poverty-stricken estate. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z "If Dominic was only putting on middle-class plays, I wouldn't have had any on at the Court," he says. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z And as a middle-class person, what has he learned about the plays about the middle classes? Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z Cue swirling oboes, secrets and the usual gaggle of eccentric villagers and brutally middle-class ladies of certain vintage being absolutely beastly to one another. Tonight's TV highlights: Republic Of Doyle 2010-10-26T23:05:00Z It would not be possible to write the same kind of history about this new England, with its railways and factories and commerce, its middle-class Queen, however praiseworthy these things may be. Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z During a pandemic, a plucky middle-class gal can still “have it all,” as long as she can manage job and children simultaneously, from the floor of a lawless living room. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z He pushed his narrators beyond scoundrels, impatient teenagers and feckless lovers into a new specialty: spectacularly ordinary, middle-aged, middle-class men, savoring their problems and only partly interested in keeping up appearances. Music Review: Once Cruel to Be Kind, Now Soft to Be True 2010-10-22T23:39:00Z But black contestants are said to be disadvantaged because Idols is shown on a subscription channel and viewers must pay to vote, meaning that voters are disproportionately from the white middle-class. Idols South Africa crowns first black winner 2012-10-02T23:53:55Z Intense nostalgia for the frontier and the farm, and respect for the material culture of middle-class suburbia, pervades Rhoades’s work. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z But working on jumbo jets has afforded Brzenk a solidly middle-class lifestyle compared to the men who seek to dethrone him. Straight to DVD: "Pulling John," arm wrestling's holy grail 2010-05-15T00:20:00Z The easygoing dialogue provides a nice window into middle-class immigrant lives too seldom seen on U.S. stages. Review | ‘Noura’ is the best premiere of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Despite his middle-class background – he was born Anthony McMillan, the son of a doctor and a teacher – Coltrane always identified with working-class Glasgow. Robbie Coltrane: 'I take no nonsense' 2012-11-09T22:59:00Z Moss “writes beautifully about English middle-class life, about souls in tumult, about people whose lives have not turned out the way they’d hoped,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The obvious takeaway: It is a money city, far less friendly to working-class and middle-class people than it was a generation or two ago. The City That Won’t Shut Up Fills Two New Books With Its Babble 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z In “Prep,” Sittenfeld’s blockbuster debut, she portrayed a middle-class young woman attending an elite boarding school, someone self-conscious about being self-conscious. The Heroines in Curtis Sittenfeld’s First Story Collection Are All Grown Up 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z And it doesn't shy from pondering his outsider's relationship with the songs, as when he refers to himself in the album's liner notes as a "white middle-class Englishman drilling protected wilderness." Hugh Laurie loosens up in continued visit to house of American music 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z “This is a middle-class issue now,” Betsy Dillner, director of Generation Rent, the campaign group for better private renting, told me. The great London property squeeze 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z If your landlord decided not to pay the fuel bill, that was a passing hardship, but we were not living there to enjoy middle-class comforts. The East Village, Home of Punks and Poets: Here’s a Tour 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Bridgette struggles financially, but otherwise the mothers and the token fathers are overwhelmingly middle-class and overwhelmingly white. Mom-Coms Latch On to the Raw Reality of New Motherhood 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z At times, it meant policing one’s desires and diminishing one’s self in order to be accepted and acceptable by white middle-class standards. One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Not one of her children or grandchildren preceded her in death; not one of them deviated from the usual trajectory of middle-class life. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z A: I was very lucky in a cozy middle-class life. A Minute With: Stephen Merchant on dreaming and despairing in L.A 2013-09-25T11:33:15Z It’s a reminder of how thin the margin is between our comfortable middle-class lives and a very, very different version of ourselves.” Theater Troupe Gives Those on the Margins a Front-Row Seat 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The pity of it was that Palmer tried, taming his style in an attempt to make it more palatable to the new middle-class art market. Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z “This ‘marriage bar’ . . . lacked any logic; it was simply in place to restrict middle-class, educated women and it was not fully terminated until 1964 with the passing of the Civil Rights Act.” Review | ‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z For her, white, middle-class, heterosexual society perceives itself to be at risk – from immigration, job insecurity, obliteration. Sex, lies and teenage girls 2013-03-11T11:00:01Z Her film is an 18-minute fictional portrayal of a dignified, middle-class grandmother who loses her job and then strives stubbornly but unsuccessfully not to lose her poise and self-respect. Reykjavik Film Festival: Economies Crash, Volcanoes Burn 2011-09-30T23:13:09Z For 10 years, he slipped himself into a textbook middle-class existence: house in Surrey, job in computing, numbing visits to cinema and garden centre. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z Their exaltation of working-class traditions over middle-class values led to the persistence in the Labour party of an increasingly sham proletarian identity, he argues. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z But, although Curt is going steady with a middle-class art teacher, he finds himself inexorably drawn to a novice sex-worker, Sandy, and sets out on a self-destructive mission to rescue her. Blue Surge ? review 2011-08-08T17:40:01Z She is critical of new middle-class residents who use the area as a base for commuting into the City for work, and to nearby, posher, Clapham for play. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z Within certain limits, basically of middle-class interests and values, it’s epical. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z This is one of the most compelling and rewarding portraits of a middle-class American marriage in cinema history, as well as one of the funniest. "The Kids Are All Right": The gay-marriage movie America needs 2010-07-08T01:01:00Z While Rebecca’s life is an open book, Priscilla is private — a dynamic yet contained character whom anyone who’s spent time with middle-class American parents and their babysitters will recognize all too well. A Multiracial Family Provides a Lens on the Essence of Caregiving 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Johnson describes himself as a middle-class black kid growing up in the Chicago-area, interested in graffiti, theater and photography. Solo Chicago show for artist Rashid Johnson 2012-04-16T17:10:17Z Instead, wealthy and middle-class New York City families face an entirely different kind of school choice: turtle ponds and genteel fund-raising letters, or a frantic annual effort to finance the library. Motherlode Blog: Amid Million Dollar PTAs, a School Fights to Keep Its Library 2012-06-04T14:36:45Z I, by contrast, had a middle-class home counties childhood, with a forensic psychiatrist father, a formal education and then straight into my first job in journalism. From empty nest to full house: three generations under one roof 2012-06-08T22:00:57Z That’d be fine — except that everyone else in Tammy’s family is cheerfully middle-class. REVIEW: Melissa McCarthy and Her Hammy Calamity Tammy 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z And I cannot discount the privilege of just being a middle-class white male and how the tracks were pretty greased for me. Comics author Brian K. Vaughan on his global hit "Saga" and making art in troubled times 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The play begins in a middle-class living room, embellished with “Home Sweet Home” throw pillows and an outsize American flag. ‘53% Of’ Review: Zinging Pro-Trump Women, and Everyone Else 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z There is the former slum boss who painted his horses with stripes to resemble zebras, which he then rented, "along with a cart, to the birthday parties of middle-class children". Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-22T10:00:01Z The filmmakers present the ordinary strivings and daily inconveniences, the incremental joys and the petty humiliations of solid middle-class citizens, with a nihilistic revulsion and an emetic contempt. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Paul Dacre: Another study in contrasts: the Daily Mail baron who delivers sermons about middle-class values while littering his newsroom with cuss-words. Leveson: the Movie – casting opens on the world's wackiest courtroom drama 2012-11-29T15:31:02Z In watching it for the first time last night, I found its peculiar disavowal of anything outside well-maintained white, middle-class brick veneer truly frightening. House Husbands, Paper Giants: Magazine Wars – TV review 2013-06-10T06:21:47Z The movie is based on the life of Solomon Northup - a middle-class black musician born free in New York state but then kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South in 1841. AUDIO: Film 12 Years a Slave 'opens our eyes' 2014-01-03T08:28:25Z Now, Ali focuses again on a marriage — between Yasmin, a 26-year-old of Indian ancestry studying to be a doctor, and Joe, a middle-class white man whose mother is an outspoken feminist. 18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z "The King's Speech" is a well-crafted, old-fashioned entertainment, a nostalgic costume drama aimed at middle-class adult filmgoers all around the world. Why don't Cannes films win Oscars? 2011-03-02T02:02:00Z They mock her middle-class wardrobe, love of sugary candy and general childlikeness. How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z But sometimes it’s not — and sometimes middle-class and affluent families have family problems, too. “Hi, I’m right here”: An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy 2014-03-10T23:00:00Z I cut through the hedges separating my lower middle-class neighborhood from my best friend's wealthy neighborhood of new McMansions and chemical green lawns. The lure of “Stranger Things”? It’s not the '80s – it’s forgotten childhood freedom 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Born Bruce Campbell to middle-class parents in Pennsylvania, he was a piano prodigy. ‘Jobriath A.D.’: Glam rocker’s meteoric rise — and fall 2014-01-30T20:48:22Z Instead he's chosen a third way: starting a new school – using state money – with other like-minded, middle-class people from the area. Start You Own School and Secret Iraq 2010-09-30T09:12:00Z The result is a movie that indeed seems to cover most of childhood, at least the working- and middle-class modern American version of it. 'Boyhood' director Richard Linklater versus time: the big stare-down 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z His middle-class men of quiet desperation are hemmed in by a bad economy and family responsibilities that prevent them from sustaining idealistic career goals. ‘The Fixer,’ by Joseph Finder 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. “We should be working more with the Mexicans”: Former “border czar” shares real facts about immigration 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The overall impression is of a luxurious, and surprisingly spacious, upper middle-class home. Shanghai Dwellings Vanish, and With Them, a Way of Life 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Unusual for that era, Ms. Ringgold’s works showed middle-class blacks and whites together in power situations, however unequal the power actually was. Art Review: An Era?s Injustices Fuel an Artist?s Activist Works 2010-12-09T22:20:00Z Likewhatever, online First of all, I don’t come from an “establishment” middle-class background. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z The product of a solid middle-class family, his youth in Cambridge ended abruptly when his father, Max, died from cancer the week before Barrett's 16th birthday. Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z Germain is grabbed by the mixture of affection and satire in Claude's paper, and particularly by the phrase "the singular smell of a middle-class woman" used by the 16-year-old schoolboy to describe the mother. In the House – review 2013-03-31T00:07:00Z The men’s talk is stiff, fatuously jokey and mostly small, which isn’t surprising, given that they are middle-class Londoners and that the year is 1958. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z “Everyone’s running to TV. It’s the last place where you can make a living as a middle-class actor, and it’s also where the good writing is.” Standouts on ‘Grimm,’ ‘Legit,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ and Other Shows 2014-03-21T20:16:42Z Recalling his middle-class upbringing and supportive family life when he was young, he expresses some befuddlement, wondering just where all the anger he let out on the court actually originated. ‘McEnroe’ Review: Regrets, He’s Had a Few 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z It made a star out of its then unknown lead, Tahar Rahim, and contributed substantially to making French cinema a less white middle-class concern. Jacques Audiard: ‘I wanted to give migrants a name, a shape… a violence of their own’ 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z With one of the fastest-growing middle-class populations in the world, this is a controversial message in a culture that still prioritises vocational stability over creativity. Indian audiences shun spectacle with Bollywood's first hip-hop film 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The name of their restaurant comes from its address in Palermo, a middle-class residential neighborhood of Montevideo that feels tucked away but is just minutes from downtown. Bites: Isla de Flores 1900 in Montevideo, Uruguay 2011-11-04T18:39:38Z It has some profanity, mostly of the respectable middle-class variety. | 'Another Year': Injustice, British and Otherwise 2010-12-28T18:18:34Z I’m fortunate to come from a very good family, very good parents, very middle-class, very All-American. Patricia Clarkson: ‘Sharp Objects’ Included ‘Some of the Toughest Scenes I’ve Played’ 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z He wrote about the changing structure of organized crime and even the growing popularity of gangsta rap among white, middle-class, suburban youth. Daniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91 2011-01-26T16:05:52Z If Anna were just another middle-class escapee on a spiritual quest, that might come off as handsome but a little hokey. Lydia Millet has cooked up a contemplative thriller of endurance in 'Sweet Lamb of Heaven' 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In a country where most people live in desperate poverty, the movies show fantasies of middle-class Afghan life alongside the action and adventure. Defying the Taliban, one (bad) movie at a time 2010-06-19T16:02:00Z But her superb Mrs. Lovett is Dickensian in the truest sense of the word, a portrait of an ordinary middle-class woman who believes she believes in the Victorian pieties she pays lip service to. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z No, it’s not to do with being more middle-class, he says. Peter Crouch: 'Getting 50,000 people on their feet – you can't replicate that' 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z “It made me realize that I wasn’t safe. That kids that come from ‘good wholesome middle-class backgrounds’ aren’t safe. Adia Victoria Wants to Make the Blues Dangerous Again 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Eleven years old and living in a nondescript circle of middle-class houses in England, she faces a battery of challenges. Film: No Innocence for the Watchful 2013-07-12T17:57:25Z On her historic home’s past: “It was built in 1839 by a middle-class merchant next to a warehouse near the waterfront in New York,” she said. Design Wisdom from Oscar Winner Julianne Moore 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z I have written previously about the middle-class assumption that we all have the time to shop in markets and cook from scratch. Jamie Oliver's 30-minute meals are an affront to cooking 2010-12-22T13:30:00Z We meet the unnamed narrator in 2003 when he’s a listless college student raised by a nice middle-class family. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z This collection of four novellas portrays a quiet, almost provincial world of the upper middle-class before New York became a world capital. Edmund White's top 10 New York books 2011-01-12T12:24:11Z Using a classic formula for American drama — the holiday gathering — Mr. Karam explored with emotional delicacy and theatrical daring the tensions, primarily financial, that are slowly eroding the confidence of a typical middle-class American family. The Best Theater of 2015 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Implicit in his scorn is a hindsight appreciation that, for the poor to thrive, their communities must include working- and even middle-class families. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Some came from middle-class families, and others lived in poverty, including a 17-year-old who was struggling to raise a 4-year-old child. Design: Humanitarian Design Project Aims to Build a Sense of Community 2011-10-23T12:30:10Z This “Titanic,” which can be seen on ABC on Saturday and Sunday, focuses on the story of the ship’s middle-class passengers, a group largely ignored in fictional accounts, Ms. Henry said. Weekend Miser: ?Titanic at 100? at South Street Seaport Museum 2012-04-12T21:48:43Z And yeah, we kind of know the middle-class milieu – Jim and I both come from that, and it just feels real to us.” Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z The growth of middle-class domesticity also involved a reshaping of the holiday season into a more child-centric celebration. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z Paradoxically, it is the middle-class beneficiaries of Russia's economic boom who ripped it up. Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love With Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah – review 2013-06-27T11:00:02Z Mr. Kalika, 37, grew up in the northernmost neighborhood of Buenos Aires in a middle-class Jewish family with roots in Russia and Poland. Sous-Vide Gefilte Fish? A Chef’s Argentine-Jewish Cuisine 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z She was college-educated, attended church regularly, did not drink, and we lived in a solid, middle-class community. Ask Amy: Should you intervene when you see bullying? Readers respond 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z They were born in 1984 — the year after the timeline of “Stranger Things” begins — and grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Durham. ‘Stranger Things’ Is Back, and the Duffer Brothers Made It Big 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Broadway shows, in particular, have priced themselves out of the reach of all but the most dedicated middle-class theatergoer, except as an occasional thing. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions 2012-12-05T20:15:08Z What eats at me is the idea that society’s elites are making their living finding ways to rip off middle-class people. ‘Flash Boys’: skimming fortunes on a rigged Wall Street 2014-04-04T20:58:57Z For my generation—at least for this middle-class white girl in Florida—it was the plague and prejudice of AIDS. The year of no Halloween 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z In contrast, Walter White’s mild-mannered demeanor, educated background, and middle-class lifestyle always offer him the comforts of being perceived as good, even when he starts to do truly terrible things. Pennsatucky’s redemption: How “Orange Is the New Black” pulled a reverse “Breaking Bad” 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z But the author then mires the ensuing drama in a prosaic and thoroughly middle-class tale of maternal imperiousness and filial resentment. Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Before they could process what was happening, the middle-class Robson family was whisked away to America and Jackson’s inner circle. Review | A devastating and credible ‘Leaving Neverland’ will turn you off Michael Jackson for good 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Department stores ran ads aimed at middle-class shoppers that put twin beds squarely in the middle of chic bedrooms. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z "But I do think there's some shared responsibility, and it's not being shared fairly for hard-working, middle-class and working-class people." Why does everybody suddenly hate billionaires? Because they’ve made it easy. 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z It's one thing for her to acknowledge her privilege as a mostly-white-passing, middle-class, highly educated, American woman. The parasites inside my mother were both real and spiritual 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z She plans to keep enough of her inheritance to buy an apartment and raise a family, enjoying the sort of pleasant middle-class existence denied to many people of color in the United States. The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z It was a statement of arrival when the Fillmore was a center of black middle-class life. “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and the Fear of Being Erased 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z As foodie culture has developed, so has the perception that it’s the bougie provenance of upper middle-class, mostly white people. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z By 1870, the bathroom has appeared in art as it did in middle-class society. ‘La Toilette’: Art Show Explores Women’s Bathing Rituals Through History 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The country’s merciless news media have been watching hopefully, and mostly fruitlessly, for signs of middle-class behavior from the Middletons. A Traditional Royal Wedding, but for the 3 Billion Witnesses 2011-05-01T04:18:15Z "Here I was," Gevisser writes, "an entirely empowered middle-class middle-aged white man, being lectured to by a young black woman about my rights." 'Lost and Found in Johannesburg' maps the growth of a writer and nation 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z In other ways, “Shoulda” feels more like a product of the mid-20th century, when middle-class sex comedies had both a wholesome twinkle and a dirty leer. Review: ‘It Shoulda Been You,’ a Wedding on Broadway 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z To make its intentions even more painfully explicit, the first guest was Miranda Hart, who joined Fern in the living room for what turned out to be a prolonged, all-encompassing, middle-class lovely-off. Fern: chatting for Britton 2011-03-29T09:53:44Z It's like an "Ocean's 11" with questions and with middle-class people. True or false? AMC's "Quiz" goes inside the game show coughing scandal that tests confirmation bias 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z By the mid-60s the exodus of middle-class whites to the suburbs was transforming many American cities, and New Orleans was no exception. Critic?s Notebook: To Renovate, and Surpass, City?s Legacy 2011-04-06T22:15:09Z In the mid-1950s, some Jewish women in America began exploring new middle-class identities, a trend Fields disparaged. The true story behind the Midge Maisel-Sophie Lennon rivalry 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z “The Book of Grace” is indeed on one level as familiar as a William Inge drama, in which tormented middle-class family members butt Freudian heads. Theater Review | 'The Book of Grace': At the Public, Suzan-Lori Parks?s Family Reunion 2010-03-18T03:57:00Z “It’s an embarrassment” to older and middle-class Jamaicans, he added, “especially if they hear I’m an English teacher. ‘Why are you speaking broken English?’ Marlon James’s New Novel Is ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Is Mitt Romney the most cynical plutocrat ever, wooing middle-class voters but really interested only in helping his rich friends? Richard Nelson Tweaks ‘Sorry’ at the Public for Election Day 2012-11-05T23:29:19Z And an established church that can't cater to the vices of conventional middle-class women really has no future at all. Evangelical sex activists are no better than religious moralists 2013-06-28T12:05:37Z Not far from where these harrowing dramas are playing out, middle-class tourists rent rustic holiday homes, and restaurants serve delicious local cuisine to the wealthy clientele. Shot at, beaten, starved: the child refugees who will stop at nothing to reach Europe 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z They are often burdened by student debt, have fewer middle-class job opportunities and cannot assume they will ever be able to afford real estate. The Wine Business Sees a Problem: Millennials Aren’t Drinking Enough 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z He was also motivated by more practical concerns: the rise of a new affluent middle-class made London a fine place to sell art. A river runs through it 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z In the Journal of Popular Culture, film scholar Lesley Speed wrote about how 1980s teen comedies often depict “young, middle-class men’s presumed right to behave hedonistically on other people’s territory.” Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z All the “Motel Stories” have been hosted by hotel owners and developers who are likely to change neighborhoods in ways that push out the culturally distinctive, working and middle-class people portrayed in the shows. No Room Service, but History’s on the Menu 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The product of a middle-class family, Ms. Lawson is both insider and outsider in the environments she depicts. Deana Lawson Reveals Hidden Grandeur in Her Uncanny Portraits 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Such charms made for an enduring career; in the 1990s they went on to display their macabre middle-class family values in two films and an animated series. Exhibition Review | 'Charles Addams's New York': The Perverse Pleasures Underneath the Ordinary 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z Describing herself as a "natural born feminist", perhaps it's not surprising that Roy decided to tear up the rule book when she found herself cast as the "fairy princess of the rising Indian middle-class". Arundhati Roy 2011-03-08T00:05:13Z But it's general: it's also a middle-class exercise. South Africa's new comedians find a nation eager for laughs 2013-01-04T13:02:55Z But this is more about our relationship with urban foxes – more specifically middle-class north London's relationship with them. TV Review: Who Do You Think You Are? Brooke Shields and Urban Fox Attack 2010-07-05T05:45:00Z Orphaned, they found themselves on an airplane a year later, adopted by a white, middle-class family in Goteborg, Sweden. ‘Yes, Chef,’ by Marcus Samuelsson 2012-06-26T12:37:23Z Born in 1940, Eastman was raised by his mother in middle-class Ithaca. Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman, Dead for 26 Years, Crashes the Canon 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The biggest objection from its fans was that Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice — the scurrilous phantom who wreaks havoc among both the living and the dead in a haunted middle-class home — didn’t get enough screen time. Review: In ‘Beetlejuice,’ the Afterlife Is Exhausting 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The recipes the cooking club codified may best be categorized as an aspirational version of the middle-class culinary canon. A Cooking Club That’s 124 Years Old and Counting 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z They grew up in suburban Ottawa, among just a few black children in their middle-class neighborhood. The Montreal Brothers Behind a Jet Set Leather Brand 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z These background class cues — which I confess can be catnip for this gimlet-eyed viewer — sometimes serve as a less Trumpian way of bemoaning the middle-class squeeze. How Netflix’s ‘Flaked’ is just one more drop in L.A.’s ocean of hipster miseries 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z My son Jamie, who was at university at the time, read them all and told me that they were all boring, middle-class, middle-aged rubbish. How we made Skins 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z For a time, Beck knew the comforts of stable middle-class life and even joined the Boy Scouts. ‘Street Poison’ review: Why rappers owe a debt to writer Iceberg Slim 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z In most of the songs on that album, Lorde presented herself as a voice of ordinary teenagers, particularly the middle-class teens in her hometown in New Zealand. Lorde Learns She Can’t Party Away Her Melancholy on ‘Melodrama’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z We believe him when he observed approvingly that Vienna’s middle-class Jews “literally worship culture.” A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z And while Kendal scoops up a lot of laughs at Sheila's bewilderment at the arrival of Greg and Ginny, she simultaneously suggests a nice middle-class woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Relatively Speaking – review 2013-05-20T22:00:01Z A middle-aged man puttering around a spacious, elegant apartment that might be the home of a cosmopolitan, middle-class intellectual anywhere in the world, full of books, art, high-end electronics and other nice things. Movie Review: He?s Jafar Panahi, but ?This Is Not a Film? 2012-02-29T00:00:06Z We’ve turned our backs on our parents’ conception of the middle-class dream, a dream that includes a single-family home and a sprawling yard and two or three cars in the driveway. My private school guilt 2012-10-09T00:00:00Z It is framed by the story of how he, a middle-class man who voted to stay in the European Union, fell out with his mother, a working-class woman who voted to leave. Brexit Is Happening. You May as Well Laugh About It. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Facing the same wall, white Jews pierced but never climbed over it until the New Deal and other government programs opened a wider pathway to suburban middle-class life. "Blacks and Jews" authors: "Whoopi is not the enemy" but "it may be too late" for America anyway 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Nibbling in front of the television—whether on popcorn, pretzels, cereal, or toast—epitomized snacking’s new identity as a respectable middle-class norm. TV makes us fat! 2013-09-07T22:00:00Z It's a uniquely middle-class view to assume that women must clamber up the career ladder at all costs. Do Marissa Mayer's maternity plans make her a fit role model for women? 2012-07-21T23:05:56Z This was one of the few American TV sitcoms of the period not set in the middle-class. Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92 2010-04-03T05:20:00Z "I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. All of those characters kind of grew up to be Olive," McDormand told USA Today. 'Olive Kitteridge' comes to HBO this weekend 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, you yourself line up some great examples of middle-class pop genius – so thanks for that. Is pop too posh? 2013-03-30T18:00:01Z Freya Stark described him as "a Hellenistic lesser sea-god of a rather low period", Somerset Maugham as "a middle-class gigolo for upper-class women", and Fermor admitted his own occasional "rhinoceros-hide obtuseness". Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z Berry started out in a middle-class family—middle-class black, it is important to remember. Remembering Chuck Berry, Who Died at Ninety 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z I'm a white, privileged, middle-class, middle-aged English guy. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z All the anorexia patients, with one male exception, are young, attractive, middle-class white women, when the illness affects a far broader demographic. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Still, Philip and Elizabeth struggle with their identity, because they look — and act and dress and eat — exactly like their white, middle-class neighbors. Why "The Americans" Resonates Three Decades After Its Cold War Context 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z To put it another way, why would the same middle-class audience who flocked to see Boyle's Frankenstein smirk at a noisy Tate exhibition curated by the same man? Is the Tate too good for Danny Boyle? 2011-07-29T15:28:52Z “A lot of women didn’t have the access or resources to record history, but it’s not just white, middle-class women — especially in the Victorian period — that are the movers and shakers here,” Ms. Micucci said. These ‘Rebel Women’ Sought Equality in 19th-Century New York 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z New Jersey, lately travestied as an inferno of vulgar hedonism on MTV, is here shown to be if not quite an earthly paradise, then at least a garden of reasonable middle-class delights. | 'Win Win': Riding the Wave of Life?s Indignities 2011-03-17T23:03:24Z Family dinner is a middle-class, first-world challenge, to be sure, but it’s a pervasive one that deserves a full-length book. “Dinner: A Love Story” 2012-07-26T16:25:00Z "I am a suburban middle-class kid," he said. 'Most Violent Year's' J.C. Chandor on the Sidney Lumet link 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z It's about what really goes on in middle-class households between the lines of the most seemingly ordinary encounters. What we talk about when we talk about "The Help" 2011-08-17T22:18:00Z There’s often some kind of license or some kind of ratcheting scheme that allows people to keep their middle-class status. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z Dr. Connelly, who has an upscale clientele in Manhattan and a middle-class one in Manchester, N.H., can trace the growth in male cases by the number of night guards he makes. 2010-02-13T04:51:00Z I was almost envious, in some respects, of people who were content in living the middle-class lifestyle that they had. Are "The Real Housewives" really flesh-eating zombies? 2010-10-16T23:01:00Z Scenes portraying the manners and reading lessons offered by the faculty of the Tuskegee-style institute where Cora and other fugitives find shelter demonstrate the allure of these middle-class values. "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The Beradts lived in Charlottenburg—a largely Jewish suburb of Berlin, which was home to figures such as Walter Benjamin and Charlotte Salomon—and the dreams Beradt gathered reflect the area’s secular, middle-class milieu. How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Water plays an important role in Roma, Cuarón’s visionary portrait of a fractured family in the upper middle-class suburbs of Mexico City in the early 1970s. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z It derides women for prosaic choices in what they wear, where they shop — for looking as if they’re trying to transcend their working- or middle-class status. I had a thot but didn’t know it was a thing 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z They were also taught that their talent for accommodating leftovers was a reflection of their thrift and resourcefulness — the markers of middle-class French femininity. What to do with those Thanksgiving leftovers? Look to the French 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z “In the middle-class, educated group in New York, you probably are seeing kids who are just under more academic pressure,” she says. Generation meds: the US children who grow up on prescription drugs 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z I write this as a working-class, English punk rocker, who is happily married to a middle-class, Nigerian woman. Cultural diversity is a fact. Let's celebrate it together 2010-12-26T00:07:02Z As a privately-educated, middle-class filmmaker, he has experienced different sorts of class hostility. Lenny Abrahamson: 'Good guys can be complex too' 2013-01-03T17:00:01Z Laura, a naive middle-class Englishwoman, arrives in Gost with her two children to renovate a pretty house on the town's outskirts. The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna – review 2013-04-21T08:00:02Z For those old enough to remember, the 1970s references are thick and delicious, and sufficiently accessible for American viewers — platform shoes, enormous VCRs, the discovery of wine by non-Mediterranean middle-class households. Review: Nostalgia for a 1970s British Adolescence in ‘Cradle to Grave’ 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Shep realises that he is suffering from "that distinctive middle-class covetousness, desire for what you already own". So Much for That by Lionel Shriver | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z I got sick' Goldblum grew up in a middle-class family near Pittsburgh, the third of four children. Jeff Goldblum: the Buddha of Hollywood 2010-07-12T20:30:00Z So while the richest 400 Americans increased their wealth by 54 percent since 2005, the median middle-class family saw its wealth decline by 35 percent. Five obscene reasons the rich grow richer 2012-10-01T14:29:00Z Until this turns around, the middle-class, as well as the poor, will suffer. Five obscene reasons the rich grow richer 2012-10-01T14:29:00Z That is the David Willetts manoeuvre: unemployment largely affecting working-class men is somehow the fault of middle-class women. The Second Sexism is just victim-envy 2012-05-16T19:00:05Z As the parent of two children and the author of previous books about obsessive-compulsive disorder and hypochondria, Traig wanted to examine how “developed-world, middle-class Westerners” learned to follow a script that is so culturally specific. Raising Kids Isn’t Easy. Parenting Advice Often Makes It Harder. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z "How dare you even mention Samuel Beckett" was the gist of their attack, "when you're pumping out old-fashioned social realist novels that middle-class consumers want to buy". A life in books: Colm T?ib?n 2010-10-25T07:00:00Z Her unadventurous, middle-class euro zone existence is melancholy in its own way. Movie Review: Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ 2012-12-25T22:44:18Z Suddenly, Clay throws off his middle-class politeness and turns menacing. Theater Review: The Racially Charged ‘Dutchman’ at National Black Theater 2014-05-07T17:02:48Z Jessie's stories provided the first of many counterpoints to my own white, middle-class schooling, which largely presented both sexism and racism as historical, linear and resolved. We are far from Stoneybrook now: On the quiet revolution of "The Baby-Sitters Club" 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z In that novel the hero, Nick Guest, was a middle-class boy with his nose pressed up against the glass. Books of The Times: ?The Stranger?s Child? by Alan Hollinghurst - Review 2011-12-11T21:24:58Z While discussion of mental health is now more widespread than ever, the language and culture that surround it remain overridingly feminised and middle-class in tone. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z I could rebel by succeeding, while a lot of white middle-class men of my era seemed to rebel by failing, because the expectations had been set so very high for them. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z But if she had not lived a middle-class life and been academically trained, would her paintings now be slotted as “outsider art” rather than classic early Modern abstraction? ‘The Keeper’ Reveals the Passion for Collecting 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Who, here, is the “we” — middle-class English speakers? Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z All he needs to do is pretend to be something he’s not — in this case, middle-class and educated — and the rest will take care of itself. "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The dawn of the 1980s, the beginning of the Reagan years, was just about the moment when aspirational middle-class families began buying computers for their children rather than bound encyclopedias. Exhibition Review: An Exhibition in Easy Mode 2012-03-15T22:58:51Z They moved to Boston when Ford was 4 and eventually found their way to Long Beach and then Lakewood, providing their child a strong, stable, middle-class home to always crawl back to. Lita Ford kisses, rocks and tells in her long-awaited memoir 'Living Like a Runaway' 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Having grown up with a very pleasant childhood in a middle-class family in the U.K., it was a big shock to the system. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Then, not long after moving to Brooklyn in the mid-’80s, he settled into a middle-class life oriented more to family and tending a backyard garden of all-legal plants than to anarchic rebellion. Art Review: Picturing a Mind-Blowing World Made of Drugs 2010-10-07T21:19:00Z And Last: Congressional Record: A. Students, middle-class families, homeowners and seniors across this nation are the losers. Style Invitational Week 1367: Pick me up at work, okay? A come-on contest. 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Later I realized how the self-described “humble Negro printer,” who quit middle-class office life at 40, is a legend in the letterpress world. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z An earlier movie, “The Company Men” showed the effects of hard times on the less picturesque world of middle-class suburbia. ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Django Unchained’ and an Obama-Inflected Cinema 2013-01-16T16:28:50Z This is an intimate, improvised, almost totally plotless and resolutely non-commercial exploration of middle-class English life, which in a strange way symbolizes the predicament facing auteur-oriented cinema in general and this festival in particular. Best of Cannes: "Another Year" with Mike Leigh 2010-05-17T16:15:00Z For example, Mary, a white middle-class student “compartmentalized” her friends into two clusters — friends from home and friends from MU — who provided different types of support. Facebook IRL: How your college friendships can help or hinder 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The solidly middle-class park also draws some unusual characters each year. Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z Alan’s dreamlike story unfolds to become an emotionally stirring allegory about the frustrations of middle-class Americans coping with unemployment and diminished dreams in a newly globalized world. Michiko Kakutani’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:46Z But he attended what he said was an un-fancy public high school in Austin, Tex., where he played basketball and had plenty of ordinary, middle-class friends. The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z In her earlier autobiography, “Negroland,” Jefferson reflected on her upbringing in an upper middle-class Black family. 12 New Books Coming in April 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Reading David's letter, I do wonder if the reason for this is because these were mainly working-class people, whereas the Nazis' core support base were the lower middle class and the middle-class professions. Letters: Alone under a dictatorship 2011-01-15T00:06:19Z I think what this reveals is that for all of our talk of a globalized world and free trade and borderless life, borders do very much exist for poor and middle-class people. When citizenship can be bought and sold: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian talks to Sasha Frere-Jones 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Along with Hokusai and Hiroshige, he worked in a style known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world of leisure and luxury, which a rising population of middle-class hedonists avidly consumed. Art Review: At Japan Society, Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 2010-04-15T21:23:00Z They were mostly middle-class and upper-middle-class kids from Stanford, and so some of the brightest minds focused on convenience apps, grocery delivery systems and on-demand laundry. A Journey — if You Dare — Into the Minds of Silicon Valley Programmers 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z But it’s an open question whether the familiar Broadway audience, or even the middle-class black theatergoers who have been drawn in by “Raisin,” can make room in their hearts and wallets for Shakur’s words. ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Numbers are very high in the white, middle-class east coast population, says Ilina Singh, professor of neuroscience and society at Oxford University, while there is under-diagnosis in poor white populations and among ethnic minorities. Generation meds: the US children who grow up on prescription drugs 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z And though Petersen’s book focuses on an overwhelmingly white, suburban and middle-class millennial, she understands the inherent privileges at play. Anne Helen Petersen on millennial burnout: 'There's no decompression time' 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z All four songs celebrate the warm joy of home, even if its middle-class accoutrements or nostalgic haze make it unrecognizable. Review | David Byrne Burns Down the House at the Anthem 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The problem is that jokes intended for middle-class white people are only likely to be funny for middle-class white people. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z Far from being repressive authoritarians, Prohibition's largely Protestant champions – a large proportion of whom were high-minded middle-class women – were the do-gooders of the day. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z After a brief opening montage showing the history of the Meyerses, a middle-class household in Birmingham, Ala., the movie alights on the five days before Christmas 2016. Review: ‘Almost Christmas,’ a Home-for-the-Holidays Comedy 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Available in four European languages, each contains the lines from a 2016 video of an uptight middle-class dinner party in which Ms. Loze plays a dozen characters. It’s the Art Form of the Moment (but It’s a Hard Sell) 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z That seems like a tricky path forward, given that his experience is of being a middle-class kid from Asia—not the traditional material for the genre. Rich Chigga and the Difficulties of Keeping It Real 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z I’m a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. David Quammen’s ‘Spillover’ Owes Much to Faulkner 2012-10-20T02:34:03Z Jacob Weisberg of Slate pounded Mr. Thiel over his “nasty” idea, which he argued is “diverting a generation of young people from the love of knowledge for its own sake and respect for middle-class values.” Saying No to College 2012-11-30T22:03:33Z Writing in New York, Jonathan Chiat adds that Harrell’s “employment does not provide her with adequate child care; and the community punishes her for failing to live up to unobtainable middle-class child-care standards.” Mother arrested for letting daughter play in park 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Labor lawyer Beth Ross is a two-decade resident of Glen Park, once a middle-class enclave offering jaw-dropping views of the city. How San Francisco broke America’s heart 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z But look more closely and you can see an entire type of “middle-class” movie — one that has become increasingly endangered within the tentpole-centric ecosystem of Hollywood — disappearing with the demise of Fox 2000. Do ‘middle-class’ movies have a future in corporate Hollywood? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z That riot would accelerate white and middle-class flight to the suburbs and bring a radical contraction in the city’s population. Review: ‘Once in a Great City’ Chronicles Detroit’s Glory Days 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z "One Fine Morning" joins this cluster of exquisitely rendered dramas about the ebb and flow of everyday middle-class people. In "One Fine Morning" Léa Seydoux experiences the exquisite heartbreak and passion of everyday life 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Michael Shannon is blisteringly good as the broker who puts him to much-needed work — albeit preying on other overextended middle-class victims. ‘99 Homes,’ ‘Paddleton’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The tale of a homeless man befriended by a middle-class schoolgirl, this adaptation features a suitably strong cast. TV highlights 23/12/12 2012-12-21T10:04:15Z Child grew up in Pasadena, California—in one of the book’s interviews, a 1989 conversation with the journalist Polly Frost, for Interview, she describes herself as “an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.” The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Readers are bored by the sameness of Anglo-American fiction, with its middle-class focus and its insistence on dialogue and scene. Ties that bind 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Born of parents from Algeria who fled the country’s civil war, she grew up in a middle-class family in Paris. A YouTuber Shoots to Literary Fame in France, Ruffling Feathers 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z The newspaper's review said the story of a liberal middle-class American family was Franzen's "most deeply felt novel yet." Oprah picks Franzen's novel "Freedom" for book club 2010-09-17T16:27:00Z “I grew up middle-class, and my parents immigrated from Cuba,” she said. The New 30-Something 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Mimi is a fortress of middle-class English propriety against the heavily Irish, heavily working-class landscape of Liverpool. "Nowhere Boy": John Lennon, before the Beatles 2010-10-08T11:01:00Z But those close to Brown said the governor was persuaded by arguments that expanding the credit would create and preserve middle-class jobs in California. California to hike film tax credits 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Rodman sees unions as more important than ever, and the only institution making the middle-class writer and the working actor possible at a time of historic income disparities. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z “People think we represent this middle-class professional group, but if you can find a way of making the private rented sector work for the most vulnerable people in society, then it will work for everyone.” The great London property squeeze 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Growing up white and middle-class in the South meant that I inherited a complicated but widely celebrated heritage, one concretized in memorials that dotted the Southern landscape. Shoot first, ask questions later: The destructive downside to America’s cult of DIY personal security 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z “Fairview” begins as an easygoing comedy about a middle-class black family gathering for a birthday dinner and ends somewhere else entirely. In This Play About Race, ‘People Need to Be Uncomfortable’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The bungalow block was twentieth-century Chicago’s quintessential landscape of middle-class solidity and working-class confidence in upward mobility, but today it’s harder to enter or stay in the middle class. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z When right-wing men bemoan the loss of the traditional mid-century housewife, they ignore the fact that until World War II, middle-class American families typically had one or more servants to help around the house. Madison Cawthorn's dog whistle about microwave meals isn't new 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z I thought you had to be smart and come from a middle-class family to attend college. My American dreams and nightmares: On Mississippi streets, "Native Son" and Jeezy vs. Gucci Mane 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z The heroes tend to be relatable — shy, clumsy, anxious, myopic, in recovery, short-tempered, middle-class, broke — but their stories are fantastic, over-the-top, a wild ride and a welcome escape from a reader’s quotidian life. Meet the writers who still sell millions of books. Actually, hundreds of millions. 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Go back to Sept. 20, 1984, when Dr. Huxtable walked into the kitchen of his Brooklyn brownstone and introduced white audiences to one of the first black middle-class families to appear on prime-time TV. Trying to Separate Bill Cosby From Cliff Huxtable 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z As someone who was raised in a single-parent household in Finsbury Park, London, and went to state schools, are you surprised by the middle-class dominance of acting? Naomie Harris: ‘I portray strong women because that’s what I know’ 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z With many of the European immigrant families whose stories are told at the museum, their descendants climbed the socioeconomic ladder, leaving the tenements for middle-class prosperity in the suburbs. Tenement Museum Makes Room for Black History 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The author and diplomat discusses his book “The Bargain from the Bazaar: A Family’s Day of Reckoning in Lahore,” about the effect of the war on terror on one middle-class Pakistani family. The Week Ahead: ‘The Lion King,’ Lake Street Dive 2014-03-05T21:56:33Z This led me to note that "the most cherished middle-class household object appears to be the Aga cooker, mentioned in at least nine books". We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z And there’s something that may now feel too comfortably tailor-made for middle-class consumption, in the demonization of the story’s destitute, uneducated white accusers. Review | Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is here, and Jeff Daniels soars as Atticus Finch 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But she's also an educated, middle-class professional who has left her home village in Oaxaca far behind. Pick of the week: A dark, erotic "Leap Year" in Mexico 2011-06-24T00:30:00Z This white, middle-class former heroin addict of the 1980s is outraged—outraged, I tell you. These “new faces of heroin” stories are just the old face of racism 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z And women specifically have suffered because of the diversion of even feminist issues to focus more on white middle-class feminist issues. When anti-violence backfires 2012-06-02T15:00:00Z On a hill overlooking a middle-class neighbourhood and a hospital lies one of São Paulo’s slums – home to about 300 families trying to eke out a living in the largest city in Brazil. 'Health workers are too scared to enter': the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The interviews were primarily conducted with middle-class North Americans, and many of the participants are white. At what age are people usually happiest? New research offers surprising clues 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z David, looking perfectly at ease on stage as a more middle-class version of his usual persona, is at his best when his character is fixated on the small stuff. Larry David's play 'Fish in the Dark' thinks too small-screen 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z But the resulting food fears needed a receptive audience, and that is precisely what middle-class Americans were primed to be. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z Barrio Italia grew steadily as a middle-class neighborhood for Italian and Spanish immigrants who often ran businesses from the fronts of their homes. Surfacing: A Santiago Barrio Recreates Its Image 2012-09-14T17:04:34Z First, we might ask: What was it like being an intelligent, middle-class young woman in Sweden at the turn of the last century? Review | Hilma af Klint, the woman who painted the future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z In the US, desegregation allowed middle-class black families to move for the first time into wealthier, white neighbourhoods. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z The camera’s leveling, democratic potential was apparent from the start, as middle-class families sat for formal portraits in local studios. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z I was trying to communicate from the point of view of youth, to show that young middle-class girls were rising as very powerful influences in culture. | Filmmaker Matt Wolf on the Origins of Teenage Culture 2014-03-11T21:24:59Z Q: "The Love Punch" is decidedly British with its sense of middle-class and middle-aged humor. A Minute With: Emma Thompson on comedy, bathing suits and success 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z One day in the studio, Ms. Destri explained, a dancer recounted the experience of getting lost in a middle-class Rio neighborhood and asking a white woman for directions. Companhia Urbana de Dança Reflects Brazil’s Complexities 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Reynolds identified two scenes that appealed to the young and idealistic: shoegaze “for your sort of guitar-loving, middle-class students,” and rave culture, which was “druggie, working-class, also kind of an escape in a way.” Shoegaze, the Sound of Protest Shrouded in Guitar Fuzz, Returns Again 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z If regular old Hollywood melodrama, rendering bourgeois passions operatic, provokes chuckles even among its devotees, Bergman’s infusion of middle-class anguish with metaphysical heights and existential depths risks unleashing a laugh riot. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z He flushed with pleasure when he, a provincial Englander from a middle-class background, was mistaken for a toff. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z There are a few surface similarities: middle-class milieu, protagonists who are the “popular kids,” and more. ‘Alex Strangelove’: Boy Meets Boy. Awkwardness Ensues. 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “You know what it is? It’s white American men, middle-class but not as successful as they think they should be. They look at him and say, ‘My God, I wanna be like him. Lorraine Bracco on Goodfellas, therapy, and almost turning down The Sopranos 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Biden, raised in a middle-class family from Scranton, Pa., has been a frequent visitor to Ohio. Stellar duo target Ohio's working class for Obama 2012-10-18T20:59:13Z Largely neglected by her dysfunctional middle-class family and misunderstood by her teachers and classmates, Eun-hee is left to face the challenges of young adulthood on her own. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Dark’ and a Star-Studded Global Citizen Concert 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z The disembarkation point for countless Motor City migrants seeking a decent wage in Henry Ford’s factories, it was Detroit’s Ellis Island for the journey toward middle-class life. Capturing the Idling of the Motor City 2011-08-21T04:00:08Z Growing up in 1970s Wembley, Hai and her schoolfriends, the daughters of middle-class British Pakistanis, try to out-English each other by declaring to whoever is listening that they never eat curry at home. A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z But beneath the consumerist middle-class trappings that usually adorn Mr. Ayckbourn’s work, there also lurks the shadow of Samuel Beckett, for whom wild laughter was always an appropriate response to the bleak human condition. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Elisabeth’s letters to her daughter, Immo, who was living in Holland, show how someone who undoubtedly saw herself as a nice, law-abiding middle-class woman could countenance the Nazi regime. A Sobering Look at How Quickly Hitler Transformed Germany 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s immediately obvious as you exit the train station, where a coffee cart — beloved of the middle-class incomers who have transformed this part of London — stares across the road at a deep-fried-chicken takeout shop. With a California sensibility, she’s changing British attitudes toward vegetables 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z In the Netflix film she plays a maid named Cleo struggling with her own problems as she looks after a middle-class family deserted by their father. 'Roma' actress brings star power to support of domestic workers 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z But rather than just be ordinary, like precursor Malcolm In The Middle, the whole show has to make a fuss of the fact that it's about how hard being a middle-class American is. Isle of MTV 2010-09-04T05:45:00Z Its influence spread and eventually transformed the culture as it flowed into mostly white, middle-class suburban malls and onto the rarified fashion runways of Paris. Hip-hop was poised to conquer fashion. Why did it stop short? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The idea that dirt caused disease was accepted quite easily by middle-class Americans. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z “They seemed impatient with the old middle-class morals. And where the established rules for love did not fit their lives, they made up new ones.” First Comes Love, Then Comes What Exactly? 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z In Lubumbashi, where it lifted thousands of families to middle-class status, its unraveling was a seismic shock. On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z For Tyler fans, this is familiar territory: the quotidian frictions and rewards of family life in white, middle-class Baltimore. Anne Tyler, Close-Up Artist, Zooms Out for a Novel of Family Rifts 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z “As if Raquel would go jogging! I thought it was all getting a bit middle-class.” From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z I can tell you from my own experience, living in the US, Mexicans work themselves to the bone doing all the dirty thankless jobs that the white middle-class natives won't do. I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough 2011-02-05T21:30:00Z “Within three decades after Lincoln’s death, his American Dream of a middle-class society was no longer available to most Americans.” How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z From coloured to negro to coloured again: Norris – American theatre's foremost dissector of liberal middle-class hypocrisy – points to the human tendency to burrow into language, to obscure unpleasant truths with names and labels. Clybourne Park ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:01Z What is really being threatened other than traditionally white, middle-class spaces? White spaces, white privilege and white fear: Negrophobia still contaminates America 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z There is much hand-wringing and self-flagellation over indie having a primarily white, middle-class audience. Ask the indie professor: Will Kings of Leon's Sex On Fire ever go away? 2010-08-10T10:17:00Z One of four children born to a pair of middle-class business owners, Wey, 32, came to the United States for school and settled in Michigan with relatives. Discomfort food: Using dinners to talk about race, violence and America 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z All but two people in America are middle-class. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z These are extreme cases but young girls are often trafficked from rural areas to be exploited by rich or middle-class families in the cities, according to National Domestic Workers Movement co-ordinator Christin Mary. High-profile arrest uncovers plight of India’s invisible workforce 2013-12-29T20:00:00Z Ms. Goffman is hardly the first middle-class white observer to venture into black urban America and emerge with a marketable story to tell. Alice Goffman Researches Poor Black Men in ‘On the Run’ 2014-04-29T21:52:16Z “But I wanted a family that was very, very middle-class and had a wide spread of kids — as wide a spread of children in age as possible.” Craig Gilbert, 94, Dies; Created Groundbreaking ‘American Family’ 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z They were born twenty months apart, to middle-class families, and both had “spirited, big-hearted mothers who encouraged us to do something valuable and interesting with our lives.” Peak Meryl Streep at the D.N.C. 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z But their middle-class life did not dim her awareness of their country’s poverty. Never Underestimate the Value of Crashing a Wedding 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The Haims are, like me, white women with middle-class backgrounds, raised in suburban San Fernando Valley, one of those parts of L.A. that, to paraphrase Thom Andersen, is often photographed but not very photogenic. Dancing with HAIM 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z In her autobiography, “The Long Loneliness,” Dorothy Day writes about moving from her family’s middle-class home in Chicago to a boardinghouse on Cherry Street under the Manhattan Bridge. A Tourist’s Guide to Catholic New York 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z While Latitude largely appeals to middle-class families and is full of quilted jackets and cooler bags packed with Prosecco, other music festivals are available. Festival dads show their attitude at Latitude 2012-07-14T15:42:21Z It takes a long time to build a middle-class city like Janesville. “Janesville” and the Dangers of American Optimism 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z At other times, the dislocation of workers and the erosion of middle-class living standards are confronted directly, as we hear men and women who are not professional actors testify to their hardships. Review: ‘Arabian Nights’ Offers Satirical Fabulism Amid Economic Austerity 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z About five miles from where Batts was found, there is a white craftsman cottage in the middle-class, rapidly gentrifying Hollywood neighborhood. The death of Karen Batts: the homelessness case that shocked Portland 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Many were also deeply unhappy, far more so than most middle-class artists, writers, and journalists I count as my friends. Gary Shteyngart on How Hedge Funders See the World 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Dominic Cooke, when he took over London's Royal Court in 2006, famously said he wanted "to explore what it means to be middle-class". Michael Billington on working-class theatre 2013-01-25T21:00:03Z I’m also cognizant of the fact that by virtue of being born into a well-educated, middle-class household with parents who love each other, our child has already won the lottery, big time. Nobody puts baby in a cooler! Learning to parent with first-world problems 2014-03-09T00:00:00Z Also, find out what the band had to say about being labelled middle-class geeks in this interview with Michael Hann. Camp Bestival 2012: festival preview 2012-07-24T12:02:00Z Instead, it quietly attracts Mumbai's growing community of affluent middle-class professionals, students and artists. Cine-files: The Regal, Mumbai 2012-10-09T15:48:00Z But that is only the first chapter of a story that widens to become an X-ray of middle-class Iranian society. The Week Ahead: Dec. 25 ? 31 2011-12-25T00:22:25Z THE dingy back alleys of Havana are a far cry from the city’s middle-class Vedado district and its Hotel Nacional, and an unlikely home for a hip international art gallery. Seize the day 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Born in east London to a middle-class family – her father was a civil servant – Blackman credited the elocution lessons she received as a birthday gift as allowing her to progress in her acting career. Honor Blackman, James Bond's Pussy Galore, dies aged 94 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z “Halfway Home” combines case studies with memoir, focusing on Miller’s brother, whose collect calls, arbitrary parole officer and efforts to remain free bedevil the author and his middle-class family. The Hazards of American Justice 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z He began with what sounded like a stereotypical middle-class upbringing: a dad who went to the office, a lively mom, two older siblings and grandparents down the block. Peter Buffett shows that even the son of a billionaire can pull up those bootstraps It charts the days from when it was a middle-class Victorian pastime, to the modern-day game which involves large sums of prize money and sponsorship deals. Author's tribute to tennis greats 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Fink, in 2005, responded that, in the end, the work celebrates precisely those middle-class values that Taruskin believes it rejects: the “life-affirming virtues of the ordinary, of the man, of small things.” The Met's Klinghoffer Problem 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z As middle-class Indians upgrade from bicycles and two-wheelers and the country's highway network expands, auto sales have been on a tear, growing 30% in the last fiscal year. Mahindra's Secret Global SUV 2011-04-20T22:00:00Z He was told that a cup of tea at the polling station would help, as would an end to the dominance of white middle-class men. Counted? 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z Florence Darkly suffers from all the typical problems of the middle-class Brooklynite. Lionel Shriver Imagines Imminent Economic Collapse, With Cabbage at $20 a Head 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z The contemporary story in “Unsheltered” offers a collage of Democratic talking points acted out in the lives of a middle-class family slipping down the ladder of success. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z His particular forte, with his slightly fluting voice, was for revealing the chink in the armour of middle-class respectability. Richard Pearson obituary 2011-08-02T19:32:58Z But integrating into “the middle-class white culture,” as Moses, who oversaw the voting-rights struggle in Mississippi, put it, was not appealing either, “since that seems to be in vital need of some kind of renewal.” “Some Kind of Renewal”: Revisiting Robert Penn Warren’s Civil-Rights Interviews 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Kang argues the term is only used by "upwardly mobile professionals who enter mostly white middle-class spaces." Redefining identity, one Asian American dish at a time 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z What’s interesting is that somebody growing up in a suburban household — because most of the people there were probably from white, middle-class, more liberal backgrounds — hadn’t ever experienced that sort of physical difficulty before. Roger Ballen Revisits His Never-Before-Published Woodstock Photos 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z In October, the home secretary, Sajid Javid, told the Daily Mail that a government review would specifically look at the damage occasioned by middle-class drug users. The white stuff: why Britain can’t get enough cocaine 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z She was a Puerto Rican from the middle-class Bronx with aspirations far beyond that, and a tenacity that made it happen. Jennifer Lopez on Her Power Bossness, ‘Second Act’ and A-Rod 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Who can care about the wan housewives, the pretending painted flirts, the self-deceiving middle-class mothers that these brilliant writings set out to defend or to liberate or merely to reveal? The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z As a result, middle-class Americans have lurched from worrying about one fear of alimentary origin to another, with no apparent end in sight. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z "Television is run by white middle-class people, and they want TV shows made by people like them," she says. Meet black comedy's trailblazers 2010-04-13T20:35:00Z I’m a middle-aged, middle-class woman who doesn’t give a rip about footwear. My Story: If the Shoe Fits, Don’t Wear It Unless It’s Comfortable 2012-09-26T15:47:45Z In the meantime, our Mr. Mooney slithers into the pub, bringing the disharmonious vibe of a swinging, sexed-up London into this frozen outpost of the middle-class 1950s. Review: A Criminally Enjoyable ‘Hangmen’ from Martin McDonagh 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z They tend to be middle-class residents of the upper Midwest, fit but not freakishly so. Think you could be an Olympic curler? Don’t make these women laugh. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Maybe it's a pathway back to the middle-class existence he enjoyed growing up, or at least out of the pawn shop sell-and-buy-back cycle. Comfort TV: 9 comedies to binge as an escape from our nation's madness 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z While he bides his time considering a course of action, his well-connected middle-class parents arrange behind his back for him to take an army post in New Zealand; he angrily rejects their interference. | 'Brotherhood': Gay-Bashing Neo-Nazis Struggle With Homosexuality 2010-08-05T23:09:00Z "He maps out a picture of smug, upper middle-class complacency and then mercilessly confronts his characters with the depths of their denial, in action that unfolds from Friday night through Sunday morning," it added. Glenn Close heads all-star cast in revival of 'A Delicate Balance' 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The story describes Gautama as “an ordinary middle-class boy.” This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma on the Complicating Forces of Shame 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z “I’ve struggled to get back to the middle-class again,” she says. The Obamas' first film: will American Factory be the biggest documentary of 2019? 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z In some ways it was a very regular, fun, normal, middle-class Long Island existence. Q&A: CNN's Soledad O'Brien on Race, 'The Next Big Story' 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z He believes this applies particularly to a certain kind of middle-class liberal instinct which, crucially, he shares. Christos Tsiolkas: 'There's love in this book' 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z But its most outstanding quality to my eye is the window it offers on the widespread sexual repression that exists in India today, and the murky middle-class morality that rules it. Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro ? review 2011-07-29T10:30:01Z Running parallel to that legacy was the other black experience: uniformed Civil War soldiers, park strolls, parasols, businessmen, legislators, houses of middle-class prosperity. 'Through a Lens Darkly' tackles a photographic divide in America 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Britain was changing, or so went the conventional wisdom, with postwar affluence having led the working class to adapt middle-class attitudes and lifestyles. Movie Review: ‘56 Up’ Adds to Michael Apted’s Documentary Series 2013-01-03T23:33:57Z An informal poll of parents in my middle-class, progressive neighborhood suggests that many parents are fairly vigilant about monitoring social media, reading texts, and setting up parental controls on all electronic devices. The gift of privacy: How Edward Snowden changed the way I parent 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z "A lot of people got much wealthier. There was a development of a middle-class people." Ukrainian professor recalls country's Independence Day in light of war: 'Ukraine will win' 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Achatz is 36, from a middle-class family that ran diners around Detroit. Grant Achatz: The making of Chicago's top chef ... and what's Next 2011-02-15T06:00:00Z People dined out on veal and chicken Marsala for decades afterward, as Italian-American restaurants became favored middle-class destinations. The Case for Marsala 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron won the best director Oscar on Sunday for his semi-autobiographical film “Roma,” which told the story of an indigenous domestic worker who cares for a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City. Mexican leader knocks racism at home after 'Roma' Oscar wins 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Such an intelligent portrayal of the contemporary US and the challenges facing its middle-class Everyman. Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading 2012-10-10T16:06:12Z You might get some vague notion of me if I told you I’m a first-generation Thai-American, middle-class, atheist, single, childless, postgraduate, freelancing, New Englander, straight, male millennial. Why There’s No ‘Millennial’ Novel 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z But middle-class people don't send their children to state schools in inner-city areas; we are living more and more separate lives. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z And fashion is based on middle-class, middlebrow values, despite the mock defiance of an occasional licensed fool, like Vonnegut. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Social dynamics, on the other hand, look more like middle-class life in overpopulated Mumbai or New Delhi. Indian Soap Operas, Ruled by Mothers-in-Law 2012-12-25T22:38:41Z The consequences of them not listening to you are so much greater than the consequences to kids in a middle-class background. Chris Rock and Questlove Discuss 'Top Five' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z In the final scene, Norton’s character “kills” Tyler, implicitly recognizing—and picking—a path between mindless middle-class consumerism and the nihilistic will to power of the terrorist. The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Derby Arboretum may be the most modest stop on Olmsted’s itinerary, an 11-acre neighborhood park surrounded by middle-class brick houses in the city of Derby, less than an hour’s drive north of Birmingham. The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z She lost because lower- and middle-class white people wanted dramatic change, and these voters felt that, in spite of her gender, she offered them more of the same. Trump’s misogyny didn’t win him the election. But it will change women’s lives 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Not even the sunny suburbs of Alan Ayckbourn, that beloved chronicler of middle-class mores, are free of blood stains this summer. London Theater Journal: The Despot Behind a Desk 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z He loves that Burbank still feels middle-class and has three year-round Halloween stores. Leave it to Cory Doctorow to imagine a post-apocalyptic Utopia 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z There’s a specific, well-defined middle-class swath that most benefit from LTCi, and that’s further diminished by the fact that it’s not inexpensive coverage. Orszag: Another Mandate May Be Necessary to Save Obamacare's Long-Term Care Entitlement 2011-08-08T19:05:57Z The middle-class Brockman family is having an educational day out, and Ben's decided he wants to play "spot the chav", shouting his tally out every time he sees a new one. Outnumbered and How the Other Half Lives 2010-04-09T05:45:00Z The crises of middle-class men realizing they won’t live forever have become all too familiar in theater, film and television, never mind novels. Theater Review: In Far Over Their Heads: Life at the Pool?s Bottom 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z Surely the propaganda is not being carried on in behalf of the middle-class women, for they do not need the knowledge, at any rate, so much as the poorer classes do. Mahatma Gandhi: Birth control is criminal! 2013-02-18T14:45:00Z Chiara is 15, the middle daughter in what seems — to her and to us, at least at first — like an ordinary middle-class family. ‘A Chiara’ Review: A Mobster’s Daughter Dares to Ask Questions 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z He encounters almost no other middle-class white males in his march across the dirty, chaotic city. Our “Falling Down” election: What an Angry White Man on a rampage can tell us about Donald Trump and voter rage 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Both of my parents grew up in Ohio — my mother in a poor corner of Youngstown, and my father in a middle-class neighborhood in the sleepy town of Dover. Reckoning With Memories of Budapest 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z On fire with the wonder of nature, these mainly middle-class Londoners turned the Garden of England into a Garden of Eden, insisting on seeing God at work in every lovely tree or passing breeze. Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston - review 2011-07-15T21:55:04Z Original cast recordings of New York shows were still regularly spinning on turntables in middle-class American homes. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The film’s middle-class appeal has been undeniable, though. Oscar contender Roma stirs up nostalgia and guilt in Mexico’s middle class 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z In her latest stage role, Ms. O’Connell is the troubled matriarch of a middle-class family in Mona Mansour’s “The Way West.” Deirdre O’Connell, Theater’s Master of the Melancholy Mom 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Waltz was born and raised in Vienna, the son of an artistic, middle-class household. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z He had a middle-class upbringing — his father ran an oil-pipe-supply business, his mother was a teacher — but he remembers the comportment of Texas tough guys, the collectors who worked for his father. Matthew McConaughey Shifts Gears 2012-07-06T23:59:02Z A play currently showing at London's Royal Court Theatre confronts this sensitivity by encouraging white, middle-class people to laugh at themselves. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z In its little, domestic world, writing civilized the middle-class home. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z A lot of cultural, middle-class people in and around Tyneside are going to be deeply inconvenienced, me included, by these proposals. Letters: Beecham's bitter pill for opponents of arts cuts 2012-12-21T20:59:02Z His middle-class childhood was one “of constant tension and anxiety,” lived in fear of a violent alcoholic father. Review | In Will Smith’s memoir, the superstar is self-deprecating but ultimately invincible 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Assuming you’re of a middle-class income bracket, these character descriptions may sound exploitative, depressing or rife with slapstick. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Garza was born into a middle-class Mexican family and grew up in the well-to-do suburbs of LA. 'Sex addiction can happen to anyone': author Erica Garza sheds light on a female taboo 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z He believes this renaissance "suggests a dissatisfaction with the norms of middle-class life that one can only see as hopeful". Irish America and the siege of Hollywood 2010-07-11T21:29:00Z The battleground consists of who the novel can be about, with a reluctance in a certain readership to accept that profundity can be found in working-class as well as middle-class experience. Waterline by Ross Raisin ? review 2011-07-13T09:05:02Z But Theo — a milquetoast, middle-class middleman — isn’t entirely what he seems: His name and history are a lie. Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z And there is an enigmatic middle-class woman called S. Tilottama who ferries the abandoned baby to her home. Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “This is such a scam how middle-class Americans are being taxed to subsidize the most left-wing industry in America, that spends its days indoctrinating kids to hate Republicans.” Ann Coulter: Colleges spend their days “indoctrinating kids to hate Republicans” 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z It is the first Oscar win for the 30-year-old performer, who was previously nominated in the best actress category for her turn as a middle-class drug addict in the 2008 drama Rachel Getting Married. Anne Hathaway scoops best supporting actress Oscar for Les Miserables 2013-02-25T03:22:00Z The daughter of an English mother and a father of mixed Chinese, Indian, Mexican and Russian ancestry, she grew up in middle-class south London. The Mummers: 'We're honouring his spirit completely' 2011-01-20T22:18:01Z “Man From Nebraska” doesn’t upend or subvert the archetypal plot of a middle-class, middle-aged, middle-American man on a journey of self-discovery. Review: ‘Man From Nebraska’ Delivers a Midlife Crisis of Faith 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Barnes always retained preternatural calm in the face of such stupidity, an ability he ascribes to a solid middle-class upbringing: his father was an officer in the Jamaican army. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z As a middle-class working actor without a steady paycheck, Matlin said she and her family do not live an extravagant lifestyle. Actress Marlee Matlin hit with tax bill, sells home 2011-05-13T02:17:14Z “Well, they don’t yet have a middle-class, teen, white boy month,” observed one Fox News pundit. Why the privileged white male is bombing at the Box Office 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z She is slightly posher than the Windsors – who are, after all, only a middle-class German family – and a living rebuttal of Wodehouse's dictum, seeming at all times at least two drinks above par. TV review: Kirstie's Vintage Christmas 2012-12-19T21:00:02Z Her upbringing on Sydney’s North Shore was comfortably middle-class, Catholic, and filled with games of storytelling and performance, usually organized by Liane. Liane Moriarty’s Hollywood Angst: It’s Complicated 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Each time, the newcomers failed to destroy the neighborhood and South Shore had remained a pleasant place to live, retaining its respectable middle-class character. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z "As a middle-class woman with a career, it is unimaginable to think of a woman having her children taken away because her 'desire for a career overtook her domestic duties'." Sarah Polley: 'Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess' 2013-06-22T23:05:32Z It's striking how tribal the Thick of It star's show is tonight, how rigid his borders between middle-class and what he euphemistically calls "non-Observer readers". Chris Addison – review 2013-03-31T17:01:01Z But it turned out to be a mixture of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Tories, gays, straights, men, women, older people, kids, rich people, poor people, middle-class people, public sector workers, businessmen . The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week . . . 2011-03-24T22:30:03Z She opened her gallery in a predominantly African-American, middle-class neighborhood in southwestern Atlanta in 2012 and exhibits fine art photography on subjects related to African-American history and current events. Overlooked in Atlanta, Black Female Artists Try Miami 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Once a feature of the apartment-hotels built in the late 19th century, some were designed as housing for middle-class, even affluent, single men. What It’s Like Self-Isolating in a Studio Apartment 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z One of four children born to middle-class parents in 1937, he remembers the Second World War bombing of Osaka, during which large swaths of the city were destroyed. At 85, Takesada Matsutani Is Still Preoccupied With the New, and With Glue 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z In a way, this sorrowful spirit allows Adcock to make excellent sport of the culture of modern middle-class parenting. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z “The Shipment” shifts gears again in its final segment, a relatively naturalistic vignette about middle-class professionals who find themselves in the midst of a cocktail party from hell. Strap in for ‘The Shipment’ as it delivers weird, entertaining ride 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The most common bathroom portrayed on TikTok is the type found in millions of suburban middle-class homes. We’re All in the Bathroom Filming Ourselves 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Of Greer’s interest in language, Wolitzer — a noted bard of middle-class malaise — writes, “All written words danced in a chain for her.” Meg Wolitzer’s New Novel Takes On the Politics of Women’s Mentorship 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z I'm not pushing for a schedule full of programmes about middle-class dinner parties, although Come Dine with Me is pretty popular. Do TV's 'scripted reality' shows fuel regional prejudice? 2011-07-16T23:07:08Z On the other hand, no previous novelist had Wells's ability to decode the assumptions on which a certain kind of middle-class life was based. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z Evans has spoken of her desire to “see the everyday in middle-class black lives normalized and humanized.” In “Ordinary People,” Diana Evans Blends Domesticity and Celebrity, with a Gothic Twist 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Wright described his background as resolutely ordinary: middle-class, all-American, Norman Rockwell stuff. Steven Wright, Master of the One-Liner, Tries His Hand at a Novel 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Gould rightly told Labour that it should speak to "ordinary people", mostly middle-class or expecting to become so, in their own language, divesting itself of the class-war rhetoric of the 1970s and 1980s. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z But given the duo's middle-class backgrounds and obvious safety nets, how big was that gap really? The East star Brit Marling is a Hollywood connundrum 2013-06-28T13:00:00Z She’s now a librarian married to a white guy in the New Jersey suburbs, her middle-class transformation so complete that she’s seeing a fertility doctor. Newly Released Books 2011-03-16T21:19:35Z There were 200 people there; everyone seemed young, middle-class and attractive. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z In their place, Chicago subsidized middle-class residences, with a promise that 40 percent of units would be reserved as public housing for the project’s former occupants. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Finally, there is college-educated Paul Heckewelder, once a middle-class businessman who owned a chain of pizza parlors that employed many family members. What is it like to live on '$2.00 a Day'? New book examines deep poverty in the U.S. 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Walking the clean, orderly streets of Griffin, South Carolina, she transforms into a picture of middle-class propriety. "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z They might be working-class or lower middle-class but I'm not 100% sure. Are TV sitcoms too middle-class? 2011-01-30T00:04:16Z There was evidently a socially broad, even "middle-class" market for these paintings; and their styles and subjects are as modest as their presentation. Rebellious Rembrandt, Dutch explorer of the infinite 2011-01-11T15:26:42Z “Here we are revolutionaries, ‘Chavistas’!” one old lady chided a recent group, mistaking middle-class visitors to Catia for opposition supporters opposed to the ruling movement called “Chavismo” for former leader Hugo Chavez. Global murder hot spot? No problem, let's stroll around Caracas! 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z A delightful soundtrack in which Mr. Foulkes sings “America the Beautiful” and a song about an evil mouse to his own jaunty musical accompaniment completes this transporting experience of all-American, middle-class dread. Art Review: Llyn Foulkes Retrospective Opens at the New Museum 2013-06-20T23:05:46Z That's premised on a rather staid notion of "progress" solely centered on the experiences of middle-class white women. Great sexpectations: Peggy Orenstein's 'Girls & Sex' explores the thorny politics of teen sexuality 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Maria Larios, a nurse, paid a third of the luxury theater's ticket price to see the same film in the middle-class neighborhood of Santa Maria La Ribera. Comedy on Mexico income gap a big screen hit 2013-04-05T15:14:08Z Its squalid filth, the result of his now-dead father's alcoholism, is foully, vividly rendered: the stink and decay becoming the physical embodiment of a man slipping from middle-class respectability into his own personal hell. Stuart Evers' top 10 homes in literature 2012-07-18T15:10:43Z “We’re constantly told veganism is expensive and a middle-class privilege, so this helps counter the argument that it’s elitist,” she says. More fast-food chains are offering plant-based food – but should vegans be celebrating? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z This will remind you of Smith's previous novel but one, The Accidental, in which the life of a middle-class family is also interrupted by an unexpected outsider. There but for the by Ali Smith - review 2012-07-17T07:01:02Z Jess was raised by a single father in Nebraska and lived a relatively normal middle-class life. They’re Political Adversaries, and They’re in Love 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z If you want to see a vibrant middle-class, then we should be creating vibrant middle-class jobs in the public sector – more teachers, more social workers, more workers rebuilding our infrastructure and weatherizing our buildings. Five obscene reasons the rich grow richer 2012-10-01T14:29:00Z Even me, in my middle-class acting and movies privilege, am not that privileged; I can’t afford that. Alex Winter: 'I had extreme PTSD for many, many years. That will wreak havoc' 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Rainer was a child of middle-class Jews in Düsseldorf and Hamburg during World War I and came of age in a new Germany of depression, starvation and revolution. Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z That encounter is one of several reminders of the prewar normal, when Serbs and Muslims lived side by side and Aida and her family pursued an uneventful middle-class existence. ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Review: Life and Death in Srebrenica 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z He starts out as a small tradesman nervously entertaining, along with his mercilessly bullied wife, a toffish bank manager and a middle-class architect. Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z Government supporters scoff at the middle-class exodus as a selfish and anti-patriotic turning of backs by those resentful the government is redistributing wealth. Economic crisis, political strife drive Venezuela brain-drain 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The British middle-class is obsessed by what they call bad language. Cannes: Ken Loach brands BBFC hypocritical over cuts to the c-word 2012-05-22T19:04:01Z The other fellows were mostly younger, Eastern, middle-class, academically credentialed women. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z He then returned to the fray to run for New York mayor in 2013 on a platform of protecting the middle-class. Weiner: 10 political lessons from the warts-and-all documentary 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z “Most doulas are white middle-class women serving white middle-class women.” Doulas can coach low-income women on childbirth 2013-03-17T15:00:00Z These are the people who are returning to Labour, yet as Wolf says, the Tories continue to treat women as a homogenous, largely middle-class bloc, hence their fadging about female directors and candidates. Michael Winner, David Cameron and the Tories' approach to women 2013-01-25T17:45:30Z But what keeps “Separation Anxiety” from spinning off into some surreal parallel universe of silliness is Zigman’s attention to the ordinary absurdities of middle-class life. Review | Laura Zigman’s ‘Separation Anxiety’ tackles middle-aged loneliness with a perfect mix of grief and humor 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z It encompasses rural libertarians and hippies, middle-class African-Americans and Latinos, along with the traditional white Christians and recently enlisted metropolitan hipsters. Home-schooling: You’re doing it too! 2013-09-14T18:00:00Z “We both came from middle-class, first-generation Jewish families, and our humor springs from the same roots.” Gene Saks, Tony-Winning Director of Neil Simon Hits, Dies at 93 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z “The Heart Is a Shifting Sea” is a sober portrait of middle-class yearning — an earnest inquiry into what it is one might reasonably dream of finding in marriage. Marriage Can Take Many Forms in India 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z How much more twisted would that tale be when the stepmother was an African-Caribbean woman who had landed in the middle of a quintessentially white, middle-class childhood? 'I feared I'd be left with prejudiced children who didn't love me': life as a stepmother 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z I grew up in a middle-class world in South Shore, a world that is shrinking and changing, and not just in South Shore. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z When June was 4, Norma asked friends, a middle-class Black couple in Atlanta, to raise her. Larry Storch, Comic Actor Best Known for ‘F Troop,’ Dies at 99 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z America’s middle-class cultural code says straight white teeth signify a clean, disciplined, responsible person — in other words, a person worthy of opportunities. How David Brooks is ruining America (and George Will isn’t helping, either) 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z As a middle-class child growing up in Chicago and then Albuquerque, he’d been nervous and awkward, bad at sports, the kind of kid who didn’t really know how to interact with other boys. The Life and Death of the Therapist Bob Bergeron 2012-03-30T22:47:13Z Mr. Sanders said that “Blade Runner” originally spoke to a “terror that white middle-class culture was going to be overrun by foreigners.” Am I in Manhattan? Or Another Sequel to ‘Blade Runner’? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Marketing lures consumers – particularly urban, middle-class ones – with games of linguistic pretence. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z The second is precisely how the West London Free School will be of benefit to anyone other than the nice middle-class parents who want to set it up. Start You Own School and Secret Iraq 2010-09-30T09:12:00Z He, on the other hand, couldn't relate to my unshakable fixation with the American way of life — a kind of obsession with an outdated version of the American middle-class dream. Rebuilding my relationship with my father, one kebab at a time 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z The narrative structure, switching back and forth between Patrick’s utopia and Lucy and Ted’s middle-class dream, creates a sense of symmetry, or even equivalence, between the two places. Movie Review: Elizabeth Olsen in ?Martha Marcy May Marlene? - Review 2011-10-20T22:19:32Z He grew up in a middle-class family in Baltimore. F.B.I. Art Sleuth, Now Author of ?Priceless? 2010-06-06T22:06:00Z “Married,” a half-hour comedy that airs Thursdays on FX, begins with a well-worn TV premise: A middle-class couple bicker about kids, money and their sex life. The Easy Banter and the Vicious Retorts of ‘Married’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The ’60s brought us, among other trends, the middle-class urban comedy of which Neil Simon was the leading proponent. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z There is period furniture in “Sheba,” which only reinforces the play’s take on claustrophobic middle-class despair. Review: Pathos Times Two: A Double Dose of Inge, in Close Quarters 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z It was the investment of everyday working-class and middle-class African-Americans but also the investment of black politicians, of black power brokers, of black activists. Jim Jones, deadly white savior: The tragic legacy of the Jonestown massacre 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z It was quite a different world, one that arguably needed a lot more of Roseanne’s feminism and instead got the more middle-class creed of equality through self-actualisation. Poor, capable and funny: the return of Roseanne, the sitcom that broke all the rules 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z At 24, in the same amount of time it took Lennon and McCartney to become selfishly middle-class, Todd Rundgren is out the other side of the soloist's dilemma. Todd Rundgren: 'What I'm doing isn't even really music' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-13T13:01:33Z My first remembrance of fashion was the day my mother caught me parading around our middle-class Catholic home. Bill Cunningham Was So Alive 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z “Lincoln was the first president to use the federal government as an agent to support Americans in their effort to achieve and sustain a middle-class life,” they write. How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z In his book “The Diverse Schools Dilemma,” Michael J. Petrilli profiles schools where local parents have tried to change the culture in their neighborhood elementary by enticing middle-class parents to send their kids there. Motherlode Blog: Why I Want to Choose the ‘Disadvantaged’ Local School (and Why I Might Not) 2013-05-30T18:30:20Z The forthcoming “Armageddon Time,” James Gray’s very personal coming-of-age story set in Queens in 1980, is at least obliquely about white privilege, identity politics and the limits of a certain kind of middle-class liberalism. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The town boys appeared more glamorous—cooler—than the boys of their own sort; no doubt the middle-class boys also envied and tried to imitate the dangerous savoir-faire of the “rough” boys. Tessa Hadley on the Bonds of Childhood 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, “All That Heaven Allows” and “Imitation of Life” embedded timely critiques of middle-class snobbery and the pyschic wounds of racism within the soapy conventions of domestic melodrama. Perspective | ‘Get Out’ shows how genre can address serious issues. Why can’t serious drama? 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Lower car ownership meant more middle-class kids lacked private vehicles; their participation was essential to hitchhiking’s relatively mainstream status, Reid found. Thumbs up for three new books that capture hitchhiking’s adventurous spirit 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z On one level, nothing could be more familiar than the tale of a mildly depressed middle-class woman who chucks it all away in her 40s and heads out in search of romance and adventure. Tina Fey reinvents herself in the rich Afghan War dramedy “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Legal reform efforts were typically advanced by professionals, mostly male doctors and clergy, and middle-class women, usually employed in health care. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z “Most architects in the ‘50s were building private houses – like the Case Study House project,” Touraine says of the effort by Arts & Architecture magazine to design stylish, modest homes for the middle-class. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Gimlet-eyed couplets in that vein predominate in Sleaford Mods’ music, which homes in on the gloomy ennui of lower- and middle-class British life. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z It has been satirised, most famously by Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, in a sketch in which Death turns up at a middle-class dinner party. Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z He grew up in a solidly middle-class community in Evanston, Ill., where his father was a choir director. Bob Cranshaw, jazz bassist who spent five decades with Sonny Rollins, dies at 83 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Most tiny houses are tailored for middle-class and wealthy families who made a conscious decision to “build better, not bigger.” Would you consider living in a much smaller home? 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The domestic life in question was usually enacted by women, often middle-class white women and their black maids, joined in wary comradeship through shared household rituals. Ellen Douglas, Southern Novelist, Dies at 91 2012-11-12T05:37:19Z The only time I ever had any anxiety about where I come from was when I was sitting in a room with a load of middle-class art students talking about their lives. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z Yet the novel affords such breadth and discernment only to the educated, middle-class Voorhees clan. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Still living in Rome, I returned the following summer and stayed in the leafy middle-class neighborhood of Vomero, once a stopping point for Grand Tourists. Favorite Place: Seduced by Naples 2013-12-13T16:02:13Z Many solidly middle-class Americans have friends, relatives, or congregants who are suffering. What I learned after 100,000 miles on the road talking to Trump supporters 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z He imagines that while middle-class kids like him “were training to be better off than their parents, poor kids were training to survive.” Out of Prison but Still Not Free 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The New York Times critic Vincent Canby described the film as “a deceptively sunny, sometimes uproariously funny comedy about the bad taste, vulgarity and awful aimlessness of a certain kind of middle-class American affluence.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Bachelorette’ and Liza Minnelli 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z The English novel is essentially middle-class, a novel on the defensive, conservative, attempting to protect the English way of life, the English country way of life, against town life and against cosmopolitanism. How the Edinburgh writers' conference changed the world of literature 2012-08-11T15:58:34Z It’s a sobering thought, especially for those like me, secure in my middle-class world. As lockdown restrictions ease, a changed London awaits the return of foreign tourists 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z New York, embroiled in a debt crisis as its middle-class tax base is evaporated by white flight, starts to cede authority to its lenders. Adam Curtis’s Essential Counterhistories 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z It's been allowed to get out of control because it is not seen to affect middle-class people. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z About a year later, he opened a second Aleck’s, a takeout joint in a black middle-class neighborhood. MLK’s booth at his go-to barbecue joint became a memorial. Then it disappeared. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z “I came at feminism that way more than reading Naomi Wolfe or American people talking about how hard it is to be a middle-class woman,” she said. Laura Kipnis’s Battle Against Vulnerability 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Rich people, middle-class people and poor people all are in need of understanding how charity really works. "We've got a Marvel movie here": Stephen Gyllenhaal reframes the not-for-profit battle for justice 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Their explosive sensibility and style are as far removed from mediocre prose and middle-class manners as you can imagine. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The Gillises lived in southwestern Detroit, in a neighborhood known as Mexicantown, where they were one of the last middle-class white families who hadn’t fled to the suburbs. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z Both protagonists follow the same trope of the bungling woman whose life crashes down around her as hilarity ensues, set against a background of middle-class privilege. A modern Bridget Jones 2012-11-11T21:30:03Z I come from what you could call a middle-class background because my old man was a doctor. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z For the fortysomething single woman at the center of "A Five Star Life," luxury travel provides a middle-class income. An engaging journey through 'A Five Star Life' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Elam graduated in business administration from Moorehouse College, Atlanta, and seemed destined for a comfortable, middle-class life. Guru obituary 2010-04-21T16:33:00Z Black neighborhoods were redlined for federal mortgages, cutting off their residents from home loans and a path to middle-class prosperity. Two Views of Flint’s Water Troubles: One a Close-Up and One With a Wide-Angle Lens 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Ironically, he had been trying to come off as middle-class. Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot 2011-01-19T21:31:00Z The really depressing thing about Outnumbered is that I think it's pretty spot on, as a portrait of a typical middle-class London family. Outnumbered and How the Other Half Lives 2010-04-09T05:45:00Z Behind a closed door I heard the voices of his clients — autistic young adults from mostly working- and middle-class central Ohio families — boisterously chatting about their Friday night plans. ‘How to Dance in Ohio’: A Story About Autism and Connection 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z "They were an affluent, middle-class family and they never thought in a thousand years something like that could happen," Walsh said. Parents are warned child kidnappings most likely attempted during these distinct times of day 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z To create true middle-class security, we can't just cut our way to prosperity. Emanuel pumps up Obama in Iowa pitch 2011-11-20T05:09:00Z None were quite as peculiar as the work undertaken by the researchers in “Kitchen Stories,” who perched in lifeguard chairs in middle-class kitchens in the 1950s to observe the habits of housewives. Review: ‘1001 Grams,’ by the Norwegian Filmmaker Bent Hamer, Mixes Levity and Gravity 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z I grew up in a very middle-class life. Carrie-Ann Moss: ‘Being Trinity in The Matrix was a highlight’ 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The film, backed by Participant Media, includes comments, racist in their overtone, by Mr. Dunn in recorded prison phone conversations and a deeply humanizing look at Mr. Davis and his middle-class family. Sundance 2015: Documentaries Suddenly Made Timely 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z As a nuclear, middle-class white family in a New Orleans suburb, you wouldn't think that he would have experience any oppression himself. In solving his own son's murder, "The Pharmacist" also took on the opioid epidemic 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Even though her middle-class Republican family had no interest in faith and her father shared a widely held disdain for Catholicism, Dorothy was attracted to religion from an early age. Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z It imagines, with coruscating insight, middle-class white liberals at the mercy of their Black servant during an insurrection against a white supremacist regime. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Her story was odd but not entirely improbable: She had been partly educated in the United States and her family belonged to the secular middle-class elite of Damascus. “A Gay Girl in Damascus”: Behind the twisted tale of a blogger who “catfished” the whole world 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z So I am that cliched middle-class creature with an Ocado habit. Nigella Lawson: ‘Instagram can make a cook despair’ 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z “Indirectly and along the way, the hierarchy thus constructed has drained the promise from middle-class life and sparked a backlash,” Thomas Frank writes in his review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z We have homeless PhDs and more than one recently middle-class person on food stamps. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z But it couldn’t get much better for a middle-class kid from the suburbs of Chicago with an accent thicker than Bolognese. For comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, being bothered is serious business 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z They tend to be the people – mostly white, middle-class girls – who have no gang but each other, and when they converge it is heartwarmingly hilarious. Harry Potter pilgrims find their own magic in Chicago 2012-08-11T16:30:29Z These toys represent ideals of gender and of lifestyle: extremes of femininity and masculinity as defined by Western, twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural norms, expressing middle-class Caucasian American fantasies of what women and men should be. Transgender people don’t all want to look like Barbie or Ken 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Nolan Mack, his alter ego in “Boulevard,” is a benign but pathetic milquetoast who goes through the motions of a comfortable middle-class life without enthusiasm. Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z He refers to the learning curve of his constituency in Doncaster, and explores his central theme that Labour lost more working-class votes than middle-class votes in the last two elections. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z After the family moved to New Jersey, Williams went to a Catholic prep school in Middletown, a middle-class burg known for its all-American feel. ‘Brian being Brian’: A unique storytelling ability connected Brian Williams with viewers, but it also led to his downfall 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z In the first two decades of television, the family comedy, with some exceptions, was a straightforward endorsement of middle-class values and postwar ideas of normalcy. The serious side of 'The Simpsons' and 'Seinfeld' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z A new New York Times story describes its origins in middle-class family life. We choose to be anxious, stressed, afraid: “We set ourselves the goal of trying to avoid things that are utterly out of our control” 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The characters are middle-class women who, like Keiko, live in and around Tokyo. In This Story Collection, the Dead Are Served Up Hot-Pot Style 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z And that world, early, and really always, was middle-class life in New York City. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z From the top, Fort Bliss is visible just beyond the middle-class neighborhoods of Central and Northeast El Paso. From Museums to Mountains, Pride and Patriotism 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Now, to become a qualified professional, many middle-class American kids are going to have to spend many years in completely unpaid internships. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z The narrator occupies a nicer, low-rise building one street over with her white father and black Jamaican mother, an ambitious autodidact possessing a “terrific instinct for middle-class mores.” Zadie Smith’s New Novel Takes on Dance, Fame and Friendship 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In pricelessly inventive style, the notion of how whites view middle-class black family life comes in for scathing scrutiny. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Brad, a middle-class Sacramento-dwelling nonprofit founder, is inundated on social media by the extravagant lives his old college friends have gone on to live — the status within their statuses. “Brad’s Status” feels like a movie about America in 2017, but it’s more timeless 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Gandhi came from an insular, middle-class family in Gujarat, immersed in its own world of Hindu rituals and customs. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z She is a shrewd observer of a certain kind of middle-class woman, no longer young and not quite beautiful, whom society finds it easy to overlook. In Praise of Barbara Pym 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z There are so few obstacles left for middle-class teenagers to struggle against. ‘Red Band Society,’ Set in a Pediatric Ward 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z But the targets of her affectionate mockery are usually white, middle-class New York City dwellers. Why Roz Chast Makes Fun of White Middle-Class New Yorkers 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “They thought of the middle-class suburban couple with two kids, a job and a dog as a prison they were fighting against. And, in fighting it, they embraced gender-fluid, feminist and queer ideologies.” Queercore: behind a documentary reliving the gay punk movement 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In 2013 it is hardly unheard of for a middle-class wife and mother to leave her family and strike out on her own. A desperate wife cuts up and cuts out in ‘Doll’s House’ | Theater review 2013-01-09T22:10:59Z What the moody indie drama "After the Fall" struggles with is rapidly evident from its brush strokes setup: In a middle-class desert suburb, a mild-mannered husband and father's impending monetary crisis triggers a criminal side. 'After the Fall' drifts by on a 'Breaking Bad' motif 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z That Mr. Braithwaite, a well-educated middle-class man from the colonies, was trying in the capital of the British Empire to look past the squalor and despair of the school, was not lost on critics. E. R. Braithwaite, Author of ‘To Sir, With Love,’ Dies at 104 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Obama signaled that in his remarks, calling for consideration of various measures, including an extension of middle-class tax cuts, the adoption of trade deals and a new infrastructure bank. Debt debate over, Obama urges jobs focus 2011-08-02T18:07:00Z British artist Grayson Perry writes an insightful, conversational essay about “Default Man,” the white, middle-class, heterosexual male figure that has become the default identity in Western society. Round-Up: Ancient graffiti, 3-D selfies and Norway's cool abstract money 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Did the “respectable” aesthetic of the white, middle-class founders translate across lines of class and race? The Sex Toy Shops That Switched On a Feminist Revolution 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z And as she is the editor of The Archers, the rural soap loved by much of middle-class middle Britain, we are talking award-winning artisan cheese. Fans of The Archers should prepare for a shock, says Vanessa Whitburn 2010-12-13T07:03:00Z Here is a guy presenting himself as a populist, who really is a product—regardless of his middle-class background—of the élites. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z I might as well just tattoo the C-word across my forehead, in a fit of middle-class angst. TV review: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry 2012-06-12T22:15:01Z But the point still stands: within our middle-class, educated world there was a canon, which wasn't limited to Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Scott Fitzgerald. Not-so essential reading 2010-10-22T08:43:00Z “Roseanne” got a lot of attention in the ’90s for representing middle-class America, but Homer’s fight here to keep his union’s dental plan is as cleareyed as anything that series did. ‘The Simpsons’ at 30 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z "I'm a west country middle-class girl at heart," she tells me when I mention criticisms of the series under her as too urban and politically correct. Fans of The Archers should prepare for a shock, says Vanessa Whitburn 2010-12-13T07:03:00Z Mr. Sunkara, the son of middle-class South Asian immigrants who was voted “most likely to succeed” in high school, traces his politics less to experience than to reading. Bhaskar Sunkara, Editor of Jacobin Magazine 2013-01-20T22:57:50Z We can’t all be Steve Jobs, of course, but these days, landing a fulfilling middle-class job seems like a lottery win, and gun violence born of desperation an ever more prevalent blight. ‘Assassins,’ Sondheim and Weidman’s Musical, in London 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z “More interesting than the bloodshed, somehow, is the middle-class ordinariness with which Mr. Cunningham invests the characters’ conversations,” Janet Maslin wrote in her New York Times review. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Soulmates’ and the Vice-Presidential Debate 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Because writers had the kind of, again, more or less middle-class existences for most people, people had the ability to do their art, create their stories because they had this protection. "Burn It Down" or stick around? How TV and movie fans "can be in the fight" to make Hollywood better 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Knowing that his likely supporters included middle-class liberals beginning to see rap as black America's most potent means of political protest, Cube threw in material calculated to push them away. What is the most offensive album of all time? 2010-10-21T22:00:00Z "Comedy – the Edinburgh festival, the TV industry – is run by middle-class people for middle-class people," he says, matter of factly. Paul Chowdhry: 'I just want to make people laugh' 2012-12-18T19:00:01Z Hell, most wouldn't be 23; they'd be college age, from middle-class backgrounds, not deep in debt. The great Moon-rock heist - extract 2011-07-08T21:59:00Z You see, my father, a strait-laced middle-class Jewish kid from Los Angeles, enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964. Critic?s Notebook: Heads Bowed in Grateful Memory 2011-03-16T22:13:38Z “Culturally they’re seen as not having quite the dramatic heft or range of their middle-class peers. It also feels like it’s somehow more acceptable to treat them as sex objects.” Gemma Arterton: ‘It’s easier to conform and shut up’ 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The four self-inflicted tribal scars on her face further isolate her from middle-class propriety. Books of The Times: ‘Mountains of the Moon,’ by I. J. Kay 2012-07-10T13:31:36Z Assertions like this have made Mr. Houellebecq a darling of the French right, but “Submission” is less a call to arms or a prophecy than a subtle excoriation of French middle-class conformism. Michel Houellebecq, Casually Provocative 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Then there’s the footage of Sullivan’s white, middle-class upbringing. ‘The Torch’ Review: The Blues Legend Buddy Guy Sows His Legacy 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z We have no confidence as observers of middle-class manners nor do we have much, it seems, when we are depicting women as business leaders. House Husbands, Paper Giants: Magazine Wars – TV review 2013-06-10T06:21:47Z Ms. Hansberry showed him early versions of a play that told the story of a black Chicago family’s aspirations to middle-class respectability and the eventual dashing of their dreams. Philip Rose, ?Raisin? and ?Purlie? Producer, Dies at 89 2011-06-02T04:54:29Z The full shortlist is: The Birds on the Trees by Nina Bawden: The story of writer Maggie and journalist Charlie whose "middle-class security" is "shattered" by the expulsion from school of their eldest son. Dame Muriel up for 'lost' Booker 2010-03-25T14:17:00Z For Sandy, the pressure to be respectable comes from Aunt Tempy, Aunt Hager’s oldest child, who avoids visiting her washerwoman mother in an effort to preserve the illusion of her middle-class upbringing. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z I lived in a smart, middle-class neighbourhood, in a house that sat in the middle of a row of terraced houses. Beaten, raped and forced to work: why I'm exposing the scandal of Nigeria’s house girls 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z She warned that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would raise taxes on middle-class families to "cut his own, and mine." A conventional love affair for stars, Democrats 2012-09-07T03:07:54Z “The Republican proposal cannot pass the Senate as it stands, but now that Republicans have reversed their position on this middle-class tax cut, we look forward to working with them to negotiate a consensus solution.” GOP: Charge wealthy more for Medicare 2011-11-30T23:02:00Z Much of that nonsense largely reflects our continuing anxiety over the intersection between class and race: As the child of university-educated academics, Harris is unmistakably middle-class in background and affect. Kamala Harris, busing in Berkeley and me: The tangled tale of a semi-failed social experiment 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Wallace was born in Usk, Monmouthshire, to middle-class parents, but was forced to leave school at 13 when the family fell on hard times. Alfred Russel Wallace, the forgotten man of evolution, gets his moment 2013-01-20T00:06:58Z "Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle." Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force' 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z For someone so connected to New York’s various subcultures, Fab 5 Freddy recalled, Mr. Dougherty had a “strait-laced veneer” and an Orchard Street apartment that was “orderly, quaint, middle-class.” Peter Dougherty, Who Brought Rap to MTV, Dies at 59 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Now, all the addicts that the documentary follows to chart their journeys are white addicts, many from stable, middle-class backgrounds. Eric Holder gets real about heroin and race: It’s a crisis because white people are hooked 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z As newly minted high-dollar speakers, the Obamas follow a well-worn path from the White House — but one that poses risks to a personal and political brand rooted in their middle-class backgrounds. The Obamas face the paid-speaking circuit — and all the questions that come with it 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Newspaper astrology columns used to offer different advice in papers catering to working- and middle-class readers, with middle-class horoscopes recommending spending more money, traveling more, and focusing more on their careers. How Astrology Took Over the Internet 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z “Souvenir” reminds the reader that plundering was not unusual tourist behavior into the 20th century, especially with industrialization and better transportation allowing travel to flourish — not only among the wealthy, but also the middle-class. Souvenirs 101 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z And it’s Che Guevara, 1950s Latin revolutionary turned left-wing middle-class icon! vs. Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z We're interested in people who are interested in stories, and that isn't a middle-class thing. Confessions of a Hay virgin 2010-06-01T06:59:00Z Throughout the next century, pantries started being built in middle-class homes. Social media "pantry porn" becomes all the rage 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z What had always put me off was a vague idea that the festival would be full of nothing but smug, middle-class – well, smankers. Confessions of a Hay virgin 2010-06-01T06:59:00Z I’m a white, middle-class English speaker with a huge support network, and I’m here by choice. Cycling the Middle East: the kindness of strangers and the desperation of refugee camps 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “There’s no danger there that he’s going to be producing boring, conventional, white middle-class productions,” Greig says. Shakespeare Theatre Company names U.K.’s Simon Godwin to succeed Kahn 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z His casual, middle-class persona — Saget generally came across as a nice Jewish boy — created a sharp contrast with his material. Bob Saget, a dirty daddy: Appreciating the darker elements of the talented comedian's work 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Middle-aged, middle-class, office workers mostly, they are reminiscent of the grey men and women evoked by Nathanael West in “Miss Lonelyhearts,” except that Fabre’s characters are motivated more by disappointment than despair. Dominique Fabre and the literature of nothing (and everything) 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The next tapestry in the series explores an older Tim, enjoying an even more prosperous middle-class setting, complete with Aga and recycling boxes – not to mention a copy of the Guardian. Hogarth revisited: Grayson Perry uses tapestries to tackle taste and class 2012-06-05T23:01:03Z Now, he is no longer merely an exacting chronicler of middle-class guilt, as limited in empathy as his most recent film, Happy End, might suggest. The end of the auteur? 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Citizens who do not measure up on this count, for whatever reason, are denigrated and maligned, a class of “other” whose values, if they exist at all, run counter to our cherished, middle-class own. “Wellness” is making us sick: How corporate America’s favorite mantra leaves us all feeling inadequate 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z One of the big differences between being a kid today, especially in big cities like New York and L.A. is how pampered kids are now, even middle-class kids. Adam Carolla blasts the “narcissism” of political correctness: “These idiots have … silenced the comedians, the truth-tellers” 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Amanda, Clay and their children are a middle-class, white Brooklyn family, entranced by a vacation rental home on Long Island that promises near-total seclusion. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “I’d say at least 20% are middle-class parents and are particularly well-educated and affluent. Yet social services are involved. It really is across the board.” Why parents are getting angrier: ‘Children are bored out of their skulls with real life’ 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Although those kids' parents, especially those in China's swelling middle-class, increasingly are voting with their wallets -- and with their television remote controls -- Beijing's regulators restrict foreign participation in the country's historically staid homegrown media sector. Sesame Street ready to return to China 2010-12-16T04:51:01Z The movie’s skewering of middle-class values has not lost its bite, but its outdoor shots of the Latin Quarter, a university neighborhood not yet overrun by tourist-trap cafes, have become a poignant time capsule. 10 French Movies That Can Transport You to Paris 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z When you’ve had the kind of career you’ve had, is it harder to make yourself relatable to a middle-class American audience? Who Needs ‘The Tonight Show’? Jay Leno Still Cares About Tonight’s Show 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z We just chat about things in that boring, middle-class way everyone does.” Steve Coogan: 'The Trip is Last of the Summer Wine for Guardian readers' 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z I have fought the middle-class bourgeoisie all my life. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z This 1950s Egyptian epistolary novel is told by a young woman looking back on the misery, patriarchy and middle-class life that surrounded her upon her return from boarding school. Newly Published, From Musical Masterpieces to the End of Trump’s Presidency 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Some of South Shore’s middle-class residents have left for the suburbs or the South, but another important movement happens in the minds and habits of those who stay. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Strangely enough, many of the men I knew in childhood—doctors, lawyers, ministers, including my father and uncle—themselves played golf, at a public links that accepted middle-class colored folk. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Working- and middle-class Parisians, the racially diverse multi-cultural residents of the city, are all but erased from Emily's friend group and workplace, and are invisible in the cafés and cobblestone streets and glittering Marais nightclubs. Advice for "Emily in Paris" season 2: Drop the Americanized fantasy and get to know the real city 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z Although she was born in a middle-class suburb of Los Angeles, Rae’s parents – her father a doctor, her mother a teacher – moved the family to her father’s native Senegal when she was five years old. Issa Rae: ‘I’ve not started writing season four of Insecure yet’ 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Her work and presumed audience was also unflaggingly white and middle-class, even as she hopped up the income rungs year by year. Why Erma Bombeck is still the patron saint of motherhood comedy 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z To many middle-class black readers, Bigger was a disgrace. “Native Son” and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Oxford-educated but with middle-class roots, Thatcher is portrayed as ill-equipped to meet the Windsor standard for fitting behavior. Gillian Anderson brings uncanny ‘Iron Lady’ to ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z My family was middle-class—my father was a teacher, my mother was a nurse—and in my lifetime the country has been deluged with money. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z While trees sporadically adorned the homes of German immigrants in the U.S., it became a mainstream middle-class practice when, in 1850, Godey's published an engraving of Victoria and her Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is a tradition older than Christmas 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z "Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889" twists Georges Seurat's sunny French promenade, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," from a celebration of middle-class vivacity into a stark indictment. LACMA's 'Expressionism in Germany and France' an edifying mix 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z "There's a constant ambiguity to middle-class life," Sly says. Sly and Reggie: sound of the suburbs 2010-11-24T20:59:00Z I’m a middle-class professor from a middle-class family. My year of living ignorantly: I entered a news blackout the day Trump was elected 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The spare set by Mimi Lien suggests an abstracted middle-class living room, strafed with golden lighting by Michael Chybowski that evolves as the mood shifts in the room. | 'Born Bad': Unspeakable Truth, Unspoken 2011-04-08T23:43:43Z Far more effective is a scene in which a blank young man relaxes in his middle-class home shortly before killing a stranger for no reason at all. ‘Lords of Chaos’ Review: Where Anomie and Speed Metal Meet Doom 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z And it's perhaps not surprising that he applies the same professional middle-class diligence to acting that a job in law or engineering might require. America's funniest man 2010-08-21T23:08:00Z And another Happy Tuesdays for Radio 4, this time from self-avowedly middle-class comic Will Smith. Rajar results; Great Lives; John Cooper Clarke; Happy Tuesdays 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z For Black middle-class families, Michelle said, “the dream was to move to the suburbs.” Perspective | All the president’s ‘Suburban Housewives’ 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z His most famous play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?," opened in 1962 and was seen as a brutal examination of middle-class American life. Playwright Edward Albee to receive MacDowell medal 2011-04-12T22:56:56Z He called himself a "middle-class cultural guerrilla," an arsenal of ideas and emotions. Leading film critic Andrew Sarris has died at 83 2012-06-20T18:35:09Z Homer, Marge and the rest of the family were the archetypal middle-class family that existed in that decade, the last lingering days of the postwar boom. “The Simpsons” hasn’t declined due to bad writing; its outdated politics no longer make sense 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s the real one, or at least the comfortably middle-class real one, where people work with, befriend and date people of all stripes. Television is getting more diverse. Here’s why it’s good for the business. 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Though questions of race and justice are raised, Yance Ford more often examines how he and the rest of his middle-class family dealt, or refused to deal, with the tragedy. Review: ‘Strong Island’ Explores a Killing and Its Aftermath 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But the Great Depression in the 1930s, the breakup of the studio system in the 40s, TV’s proliferation in the 50s and Brooklyn’s middle-class suburban exodus in the 60s all contributed to financial strain. Things to Do This Weekend: A War Film on a Flight Deck and a New Old Theater 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z And despite the exotic name and weird background, I grew up as an ordinary middle-class kid. Barack Obama and Bryan Cranston on the Roles of a Lifetime 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z In a word, he comes off as middle-class in this exurban landscape of poverty, which makes us eager to overlook the entirely evident fact that he’s also a monster. “Killer Joe”: Matthew McConaughey’s comeback gets creepier 2012-07-26T15:00:00Z The mom that is, in other words, really a stereotype, one often associated with the word “middle”: middle-class, middle-aged, soft in the middle. What Does It Mean to ‘Look Like a Mom’? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z “We escaped middle-class suburbia in the Midwest for the ’70s New York underground and lived out our fantasies of rock stars and movie heroes,” Ms. Sui said by email. Duncan Hannah, Artist and ’70s Chronicler, Dies at 69 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But he could quickly drop into loner mode, shy away from company, rebuff unsought friendship, assert the middle-class proprieties he grew up with. Art Review: Versatile Collagist, Dangerous Times 2011-03-31T22:05:39Z "Next to Normal" focuses, sometimes humorously but with piercing candor, on a middle-class wife and mother whose bipolar disease and clinical depression are fracturing her family. Review: 'Next to Normal' opens a window into bipolar disease with candor and song 2011-02-26T01:19:41Z No surprise, then, that middle-class kids come to school with far bigger tinder piles of preliteracy skills than lower-class kids. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z Not by the usual middle-class people who always do these things, but by the people who are usually the subjects of the volunteers' work. Time banks and the new creative economy 2010-03-25T21:30:00Z You can make middle-class white people love the whole work-in-process thing. Talking to John Leguizamo about returning to the scene of the crime 2011-01-27T18:47:09Z Admittedly BBC1 sitcoms such as My Family and Outnumbered are more defined by their focus on middle-class London families and middle-class worries – Outnumbered's middle-classness is, in fact, quite often the joke. TV comedy: is it really a class issue? 2011-01-24T15:42:09Z She flees to the UK with her older brother Ali and moves into a Newcastle council estate that's a far cry from their comfortable middle-class existence in Tehran. I Am Nasrine director Tina Gharavi: 'The British public has been hijacked' 2013-02-08T17:27:05Z If he, she or they have, in spite of their talent, been unable to break into an industry that is notoriously white, middle-class and risk-averse? Lionel Shriver may not realise it, but greatness can come from anywhere 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Another underrated movie from Frears, this satire canters enjoyably through the world of English middle-class hypocrisy and vanity. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z If publishing is full of white, middle-class people is it any wonder that bookshops are too? Reading the riot acts: why wasn't Waterstone's looted? 2011-08-12T11:03:04Z “I’m very lucky. I’m privileged, I’m a middle-class white woman, I have a partner with a good job who’s able to support me if the worst happened,” and she couldn’t find work. Curator Says MoMA PS1 Wanted Her, Until She Had a Baby 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z "But the domination of it coupled with the cuts in education and the high costs for fees does mean that you're probably going to get a very middle-class drama school intake." King Lear gets a Yorkshire accent 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z To help his community grow, he presents it as a new form of American life: one that offers the comfortable ideals of middle-class existence, with no money down. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z In the 1850s and 1860s, more middle-class women started wearing the crinoline as caged hoop skirts started being mass-produced. The fashionable history of social distancing 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Born to a middle-class family in Zigong, Sichuan, he moved to Shanghai when he won the New Concept Writing Competition in 2001. In ‘Tiny Times’ Movies, Material Girls Have a Nation Tsking 2013-09-03T21:42:17Z "An achingly intelligent study of middle-class hypocrisy," says Henry Hitchings. What to say about ? Clybourne Park 2010-09-08T11:39:00Z Poised on a cliff above First Avenue, Tudor City was conceived during the 1920s by the storied developer Fred F. French as a high-rise community for thousands of middle-class residents. Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The characters stay with you, too, especially middle-class son-of-psychoanalysts Ben – yin to former Navy Seal Chon's yang – who jets around the world being philanthropic while his goods attain their full psychoactive potency. Thrillers roundup 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z “There are those who say that one of the things missing in the inner city is role models who can provide middle-class values.” Chicago’s housing experiment 2012-09-01T16:00:00Z There’s a way that prison is invisible to a middle-class person. Rachel Kushner meets Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I'm so glad I'm a novelist and not a politician’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z “Fairview” concerns a “regular” middle-class black family seen in increasingly surreal ways. ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z I watched in dismay as most of my educated, middle-class friends began, at the onset of middle age, to obsess about their health and likely longevity. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z In these shows, which center on working-class and middle-class urban women, divorce often constitutes a financial and social injury that a heroine or sidekick weathers with heart and pluck. Stand by Your Man? On TV, as in Life, There Are Alternatives 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z But I think at that point people saw her as a serious, middle-class actress. Why Emily Blunt can't believe her luck 2012-06-16T21:31:04Z Union-Busting Say what you will about unions, but the fact remains that when unions are strong, the middle-class prospers and the income gap closes. Five obscene reasons the rich grow richer 2012-10-01T14:29:00Z Mr. McGraw is selling middle-class comfort alone these days. New Albums by My Bloody Valentine, Josh Groban and Tim McGraw 2013-02-04T23:42:25Z As a child in Salvador, Mercury — born into a middle-class family of seven — was steeped in dance. Brazil’s Outspoken Daniela Mercury Is a Swirl of Ideas and Songs 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Joseph Heller switches from war to middle-class suburban misery. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z The artist was born George Joseph Thek — the Paul came later — to a middle-class Brooklyn family of German and Irish descent. Art Review: Believing Is Seeing (Or, the Meat Of the Matter) 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z In fact, she was the daughter of a headmaster, an innocent girl from a nice, middle-class background. From slappers to Hedda Gabler: the irresistible rise of Sheridan Smith 2013-03-18T18:12:48Z Yes, she’s middle-class, and in many ways she has nothing to complain about, but Ruby feels like she’s not seen, even by herself. Vicky Jones: 'Fleabag felt like a tipping point for feminism' 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z The genius of Humphries’ conceit was to translate the small-minded, unyielding smugness of the middle-class Australian suburbs in which he grew up into the even more invincible complacency of outrageous, drop-dead stardom. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z And he would look like nothing but a dupe on “The Americans,” the FX channel’s tale of KGB moles ferreting out Pentagon secrets while living outwardly middle-class lives in the Northern Virginia suburbs. 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