10 PORTUGUESE BOOKS RELATING TO «YUPPIE»
Discover the use of
yuppie in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
yuppie and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Portuguese literature.
He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and president of the Museum of the City of New York. This is his thirty-eighth book, the most recent being The Book Class and Honorable Men.
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Seeing Through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism
Yuppie Envy and Yuppie Guilt: L.A. Law and thirtysomething Yuppies could not
during the Reagan years be successfully directly represented on network TV.
Since the true yuppie image is a comic parody and especially considering no one
...
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Driven: Inside BMW, the Most Admired Car Company in the World
The term yuppie, say some researchers, was first used in print by Chicago
Tribune columnist Bob Greene in a March 1983 piece on Jerry Rubin, a hippie-
turned-yuppie, and was bandied about extensively in the 1984 presidential
campaign in ...
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English First: How to Not Talk Like a Christian
Yuppie
Communicating the importance of proper diction for Christians, in English First, author Pan Troglodytes provides a guide for learning to talk and write like a humble Christian, in American English.
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Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s
Just as the phrase "the Big Chill" meant selling out, not hanging out; just as
Reagan fostered materialism rather than facilitating idealism, the 1980s' yuppie
was ubiquitous but illusory. Perhaps America's most famous yuppie, Michael J.
Fox, ...
i. Post-Yuppie. America. o. N THE BUS A FEW WEEKS AGO, I HEARD the refrain
once again: someone blaming the elevation of Poppy Bush on the "goddamn
yuppies." The original description by satirist Alice Kahn of a group of acquisitive,
...
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The Films of the Eighties: A Social History
'"Studio executives relate to them,' insists a marketing executive who requests
anonymit v. 'It's a high-pressure, brutally competitive environment that mirrors the
style and workings of making movies.'"1 Yuppie filmmakers like Steven Spielberg
, ...
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Social Communication in Advertising: Consumption in the ...
We have uncovered virtually no evidence that would support the yuppie class
thesis, the notion that a synergism among the component elements of yup—
piedom makes yuppies somehow sui generis politically. More than 85% of the
impact of ...
The United States has always had social climbers, but the yuppie phenomenon is
a product of the 1980s, with Newsweek magazine declaring 1984 the "Year of the
Yuppie." Stagflation during the 1970s, precipitated by oil shortages, mired the ...
MASTER. YUPPIE. AND. THE. NOVELIST. LOUIS. AUCHINCLOSS. CHARTS.
THE. RISE. OF. A. CAD. BY. DINITIA. SMITH. IT'S LUNCHTIME AT THE
DOWNTOWN Association, one of Wall Street's most exclusive eating clubs, and
Louis ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «YUPPIE»
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yuppie is used in the context of the following news items.
In defense of yuppie dog parents
I've always been a dog person. Growing up, I had a smart, sunny golden retriever. I loved staying up late watching movies with her curled up at my feet. «Washington Post, Oct 15»
Apartments Once Called 'Yuppie Boxes' Take Shape in Bed-Stuy
A new rental building at 785 Dekalb Avenue in Bed-Stuy—infamously dubbed "Yuppie Boxes" by one local architecture critic—is almost finished, with YIMBY ... «Curbed NY, Sep 15»
'American Psycho' musical heading to Broadway with Benjamin …
It centres on a yuppie serial killer who is obsessed with high-end clothes and beauty products even as he slashes his way through Manhattan. Christian Bale ... «News1130, Jul 15»
Photos show alleged vandal behind 'Go home yuppie scum' graffiti …
JERSEY CITY — Police are seeking the public's help in identifying a man seen in new security footage allegedly spray painting "GO HOME YUPPIE SCUM! «NJ.com, Jun 15»
'Go home yuppie scum!' graffiti found on Downtown Jersey City …
An unknown graffiti "artist" spray-painted "GO HOME YUPPIE SCUM!" on the front of the new residential building next door to City Hall in Downtown Jersey City. «NJ.com, Jun 15»
The hipster is dead, and you might not like who comes next
Yuppie? All of these, or none? We don't have a term that quite encapsulates this corner of the despicable millenn-intelligensia. And like any other privileged ... «Mashable, Jun 15»
Tell-Tale Signs of the Modern-Day Yuppie
Of all the family-newspaper-appropriate socioeconomic slurs, one that was ubiquitous in the 1980s and '90s is slowly on its way out in this millennium: yuppie. «New York Times, May 15»
London Police Tear Gassed Some Window-Smashing Yuppie …
Officers from London's Metropolitan Police sprayed CS gas at protesters in Brixton on Saturday, after they'd smashed in the windows of Foxtons estate agents ... «VICE, Apr 15»
Tom Hanks' son Chet engages in Twitter feud with Howard Stern …
'Average yuppie cornball @HowardStern listener lol,' Chet tweeted on Monday along with a photo of a couple laughing. He later tweeted in all capital letters as ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
Yuppie será a nova atração do Aldeia das Águas Park Resort
No dia 8 de março, será inaugurada a Yuppie, uma rampa de 35 metros de comprimento e pura adrenalina, construída próxima ao Kilimanjaro. O usuário irá ... «Portal Nacional de Seguros, Mar 15»