Cracking the league's upper crust is more of a long term goal.
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There was a love triangle, a philandering doctor and a upper crust schoolmarm.
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This upper-crust sausage was developed by chefs Santana Diaz and Dinari Brown.
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The girls on Sweet / Vicious aren't upper-crust plutocrats like the Caped Crusader.
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John Brown, a pillar of Providence's upper crust, made a fortune on smuggling.
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Bust The Upper Crust: Cherry pie-flavored ice cream with crumbled pie crust. 4.
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Despite its upper-crust undertones, Serenbe serves an important purpose in sponsoring arts programming.
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These trucks have snoot appeal, but don't be distracted by their upper-crust boosters.
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He was rejected by Eton, the upper-crust school that educated 19 prime ministers.
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She does not glorify the upper crust, but she doesn't send it up, either.
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The next minute, we're being tasered a few feet away from an Upper Crust.
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We are with the upper crust of the GOP, so the spread is A-1.
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It's a weird mash-up of Total Recall's pod city with Elysium's upper crust spitshine.
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But John's wife also had a hard time with the other upper-crust soccer moms.
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Porter, by temperament and entitlement, came of age among the openly bisexual European upper crust.
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The findings reveal that Mars has a dry, crumbled upper crust, probably from asteroid impacts.
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That's why Warren's upper crust fan base is in and of itself cause for concern.
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This setup seems like standard rom-com fare, complete with a side of upper-crust indulgence.
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She enrolled at a prestigious grade school recommended to her parents by their upper-crust friends.
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Although Bebe's words are correct, the upper crust of Shaker Heights is mortified by the intrusion.
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Lloyd Webber, now 71, was born into the "English upper crust," according to The New Yorker.
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Ms. Arden's character was a haughty upper-crust type; Ms. Ballard's was brassy and very Italian.
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Since the late 1800s, country clubs have provided a plush, invite-only space for the upper crust.
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The upper crust makes it obvious that they don't want anything to do with Felix's Sinaloan face.
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Oklahoma plays middle of the road defense with personnel that ought to be in the upper crust.
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Although such balls evolved into elaborate élitist rites, they were not limited to the white upper crust.
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It's a service that's only available to the bank's upper crust clientele who have the Citigold account.
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We really only see that in movies about murder in the upper crust and hoity-toity bridesmaids parties.
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Technically, America has no class system, though we've all known colleagues who consider themselves from the upper crust.
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But to many students on the outside, the clubs are laden with a legacy of upper-crust snobbishness.
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If Butler meshes with Embiid and Simmons, Philadelphia will have made the East's upper crust even more formidable.
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And Republicans just passed another round of tax cuts to offer a helping hand to the upper crust.
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Founded in London, the chain helped pioneer casual dining in Britain, concentrating its branches in upper-crust areas.
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To the south of the island, ... Caribbean plate upper crust subducts beneath Puerto Rico at the Muertos Trough.
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These were the sons of America's upper crust and they were pushing formal boundaries, especially in social settings.
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These riots, paired with alcohol-fueled Christmas celebrations, were distasteful to New York&aposs very proper upper crust.
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"That's the upper crust; that's not what's required to be successful and have people enjoy that franchise," he said.
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Throughout history—and especially among the upper crust—certain dishes have proven popular mainly because of their elaborate presentations.
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In being reviled by the upper-crust establishment, he has tapped into the anger of a disaffected working class.
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This book is not for a financial upper crust, but an intellectual one, and not just a slim sliver.
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Koch was a figure in Manhattan's upper crust and a major donor to several charitable causes and cultural organizations.
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Mr. Johnson, Mr. Cameron and Mr. Osborne all belonged to the upper-crust, drink-until-you-spew Bullingdon Club.
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And as upper-crust muckety-muck Lord Benton, Alun Armstrong is a lot of fun in the HBTC scenes.
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Ever wonder what it would take to rub elbows with the upper crust in Greenwich, Connecticut or Beverly Hills?
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It had rained a lot the day before and all the water dissolved the upper crust of the lake.
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From the very beginning, yachting was a sport for the upper crust, and its exclusivity was part of its attraction.
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Seeing how the rest of the upper crust society lived, he aspired to that respectability because he didn't have it.
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She comes across as hardheaded and visionary, a riotous mix of Bette Midler and Dame Maggie Smith's upper-crust characters.
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They mustn't betray their upper-crust privilege, as John Kerry did when he requested Swiss cheese on his Philly cheesesteak.
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But she wanted at least to maintain her status somewhere between the upper-crust white and largely disadvantaged black worlds.
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Back then, it might have been a rarity too, unless you floated in the same upper-crust circles she did.
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Sometimes you think you're climbing the social ladder and can hang out with the upper crust, and then they betray you!
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In fact, this is just another opportunity to delve even deeper into the lives of the UK's upper crust via astrology.
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The series and book swap out upper crust New York enclaves for the glitz and glam of Old Hollywood circa 1930.
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The Whit Stillman-esque romantic melodrama "Those People" goes to great lengths to humanize Manhattan's upper crust, with generally successful results.
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Among the quintet of players who comprise the game's upper crust, however, he is the only one who works full-time.
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Known for his wit and elegance, he spoke with an upper-crust British accent, was fiercely private and rarely gave interviews.
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As is the responsibility of anyone publishing a memoir of upper-crust life, Khar acknowledges how good she has had it.
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Hunts, the argument goes, provide jobs and purpose in rural areas and are not merely the preserve of the upper crust.
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"The upper-crust community is obviously not cracked down on," a 24-year-old who works in the music industry said.
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According to a recently-released collection of novellas, it's a much more upper crust casino, remote from the cares of the universe.
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The contrast between the upper-crust characters and their homicidal intent wasn't a bit of fantasy so much as a social critique.
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Even the more offbeat upper-crust actors, the Dustin Hoffmans of the world, have had a sly charm that reels audiences in.
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Baby, out November 30, is the latest of Netflix's fall TV shows set among the upper-crust of a Southern European country.
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Mark, he argues, was brought up to be selfish and entitled, the product of an upper-crust white family in the suburbs.
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Cover with the pricked upper crust and bake in a hot oven (400 degrees F) until done, about 30 or 40 minutes.
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Bustopher Jones is a roly-poly aristo-cat who embodies the stuffy, influential, yet benevolent businessmen of London's upper-crust cat-ocracy.
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The Eyeless, the ancient order that is responsible for originally imprisoning the Outsider, select their ranks from the upper crust of nobility.
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Walk into a few stores in Bryn Mawr, on the upper-crust Main Line, and the mention of his name draws sneers.
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It probably comes as no surprise, but many of your favorite actors have lived in the upper crust for their whole lives.
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Still, progress made by upper crust corporations like AT&T isn't matched by most state governments, nor the federal government at all.
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"Children," a portrait of a rich and restrictive upper-crust household, was based on "Goodbye, My Brother," a story by John Cheever.
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In a mere two pages, the editors of "Living on Paper" reel off the names of eight lovers — most of them upper crust.
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Wheels THE storied automotive names of Bentley, Maserati, Rolls-Royce, Jaguar and Lamborghini conjure images of upper-crust style, luxury and, yes, tradition.
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Here it's important to stress that a WASP was not just any white Protestant or upper-crust American of the pre-1960s past.
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Claim to Fame Mr. Singh is an outspoken human rights activist and upper-crust gallery owner who sees no distinction between the two.
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The upper crust flocked, too, to drag shows and gay burlesques, part of a long tradition of straight daters cribbing from gay life.
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Amanda Uhry, founder of Manhattan Private School Advisors, is no stranger to the lengths Manhattan&aposs upper crust will go for their kids.
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Mr. Turnbull's move, seen by some as an upper-crust approach to a simple (but revered) meal, set off debate on social media.
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Through much of the 2000s, Carlson cultivated the persona of an upper-crust Republican, in part through strategic deployment of a bow tie.
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As Lindsey learns to navigate the upper-crust Society, she must put up with Prince Stormington II, a Lupe (wolf Neopet) with standoffish manners.
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Michelle Dockery's first character after playing Downton Abbey's prim and proper – and, sure, a bit conniving – Lady Mary Crawley is anything but upper crust.
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Basically, chunks of the North Atlantic plate are peeling off the bottom, sinking deep into the Earth and creating instabilities in the upper crust.
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In some large part, this is a feature of the country's growing rift between its relatively small urban upper-crust and rural everyone else.
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Those shelters are relics of the Cold War, but renovated and newly built bunkers have become popular with Trump's compatriots in the upper crust.
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The early stories, with their opera-buffa plots, capture the superficiality, venality, and laziness of the upper crust of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro .
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But they are pulled apart, first by Tim's upper-crust family, who disapprove of Maud's upbringing and individualism, and then by a family tragedy.
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The Paepckes imagined that Aspen could become an "American Athens", educating an upper-crust elite hungry for spiritual sustenance in the newly ascendant nation.
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Left-wing parties like Labour dominated among the industrial working class, while right-wing parties like the Tories did well among society's upper crust.
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The first time this sharp, reliably unconventional takedown of upper-crust America wrapped up was in 2006, when Fox canceled it after three seasons.
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When he grows tired of that lifestyle and jumps ship, Lu finds him in New York City, showing up at his mother's upper crust apartment.
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It's a tale of different backgrounds, the painter being from an upper-crust Moroccan family, and his wife from a poor section of the country.
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"Little Oxo may be poised to make a big contribution to understanding the upper crust of Ceres," said Chris Russell, principal investigator of the mission.
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The day before Sonmez was suspended, Bezos hosted a lavish party attended by Washington's upper crust, including Kellyanne Conway and Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
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Although Mary willingly slept with George, the older girl clearly understood upper-crust men with hungry sexual appetites were right outside of her shared bedroom.
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Working as a cleaning lady in upper-crust Susannah's (Sophie Okonedo) posh mansion, and quick afternoon fucks with her ex, Elliot (James Harkness) aren't enough.
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All of this, combined with fronting other brands like Balmain, make it clear that Rih is going for the upper crust of the fashion industry.
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When it was first developed, the Grosse Pointe area was the epitome of upper-crust Detroit society, with Tudor Revival and classic American Colonial architecture.
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The school, with an all-male faculty and enrollments drawn mostly from upper-crust families of the Old South, required jackets and ties for classes.
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But the scenes that work best feature oblivious upper-crust swells, dancing while the victims of a terrible mine disaster lie moldering in their graves.
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Being presented was essentially a way for young women from aristocratic families to be introduced to upper-crust society – and, therefore, eligible bachelors from aristocratic backgrounds.
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The message of these novels is that even upper-crust, well-to-do people who have proper manners harbor deeply anti-social feelings inside their heart.
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While the upper-crust stayed at luxury hotels in Monaco's glitzy Monte Carlo district, I had to commute into Monaco from a more affordable neighboring city.
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SmAsH's open letter is worth reading in full because it's a revealing look into playing conditions for Dota 2 players outside the game's glitzy upper crust.
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Why not take a patch of land that was once used for recreation by the upper crust of society and give it back to the people?
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Many of New York's elite denizens were horrified by the news of the bout, especially when they learned that Gussie hailed from the upper crust herself.
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And this week, we got evidence that one of America's largest industries may be running into trouble because its products appeal only to the upper crust.
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Lady Knightsbridge (Richenda Carey) — a sniffling hen shorn of her wealth, soliciting employment for her newly strapped upper-crust friends — has invited herself over for lunch.
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The upper crust of the art world appears to be trying to distance itself from the industry's criminal underbelly while also seeking to bolster buyer confidence.
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"Little Oxo may be poised to make a big contribution to understanding the upper crust of Ceres," Chris Russell, principal investigator for Dawn, said in the statement.
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The old upper crust categorically banned nonwhites, viewed the culture of the commoners as degrading and beneath it, and proudly announced itself to be above everyone else.
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He followed the path of many upper-crust types before him: student at Eton, the prestigious English boarding school; Conservative member of parliament; lord of the admiralty.
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We meet this curious Australian teenager just after she leaves her Jewish school and begins attending the upper-crust Kandara, a private school for girls in Sydney.
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As a participant in this burgeoning trend, what do you think of this desire to put a magnifying glass on the upper, upper, upper crust of society?
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Whale lulls viewers into a false sense of security by immersing them in upper-crust luxury, then horrifies by dragging them into the depravity of monsters and madmen.
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Wordplay SUNDAY PUZZLE — Today's big puzzle, Elizabeth A. Long's Sunday debut, seems to be inspired by the upper crust, the 53 percent of the 25 percent, the glitterati.
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" — PATRICK LI, creative director Cafe de l'Esplanade "En route to the Rodin Museum, lunch at Cafe de l'Esplanade is a must for the best upper-crust people watching.
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His cartoons were peopled by ladies and gentlemen of the Park Avenue variety, speaking confidently about their place in the upper crust, even as that crust was crumbling.
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The Duke of Edenmore has all the appurtenances of upper-crust decay, but as a character he is little more than the sum of his crumbling real estate.
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He speaks with a unactorly London accent (which is to say, not especially upper-crust), is married with three children and could be your nice next-door neighbor.
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During her time with NPR, Silverman remembers, she was particularly drawn to stories about her own Gullah-Geechee people as well as the lives of white upper-crust communities.
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He then kicks her out of their massive, upper-crust home, leaving her penniless with only the clothes on her back (literally, she's tossed out in an evening dress).
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Its design scheme doesn't match any known frescoes dating from Roman Britain, and researchers are using it to study the fashions and interiors preferred by early London's upper crust.
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The study really does suggest, as Sanders would, that the very upper crust of the party's donors stands in the way of more populist tax and domestic spending initiatives.
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Being at Oaks Christian, on its sprawling campus and among its upper-crust student body, means he is no longer of the place he so earnestly wants to elevate.
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It's now clear that, far from being a boon, the tax cut is a liability for Republicans, with Democrats using it as proof of the party's upper-crust loyalties.
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"Fox and His Friends" (on Saturday) stars Fassbinder himself as an openhearted carnival worker who, after winning the lottery, is progressively fleeced by members of a mendacious upper crust.
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The upper crust of New York's art world will soon have about two acres of gallery space to peruse at Sotheby's — about a third more than is there now.
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Over at Lydia Quigley's stately Soho home, wan girls entertain the upper crust with tea and refined conversation before luring them into frantic sex, sneaking secrets all the while.
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Focused on one striking Sargent portrait amid family ephemera, this exhibition details candidly and vividly the difficulties faced by a Jewish family trying to assimilate into upper-crust British society.
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We examine them through their sometimes parasitic, sometimes symbiotic relationship with the British news media, which treats them at times as if they were little more than upper-crust Kardashians.
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Moshfegh's narrator's waking moments, though, are filled with bitterly funny observations — of contemporary art and celebrities — whose tone would not seem out of place in Ms. Bart's upper-crust milieu.
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Buñuel's critique of the Spanish upper crust that was complicit in Franco's reign of terror was appropriately vicious, but it seems to me very much a product of its time.
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Galactic acknowledges that its current clientele is upper crust: Most of the 600 people who have signed up for rides have net worths topping $10 million, according to recent disclosure documents.
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Beneath this upper crust of brand name producers lies a busy ecosystem of lesser-known artists cranking out endless iterations of the sound to feed the gaping maw of the market.
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Rather than showing off their opulent homes, the upper crust of Russian society clearly values privacy and security above all else — values that are exemplified in the secluded forests of Rublyovka.
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Born into an upper-middle-class but not quite upper-crust family in turn-of-the-century England, the young Beaton was introduced to high society by his friend Stephen Tennant.
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Oscar Wilde, whom they all knew, makes cameo appearances from time to time, but the focus is on le tout-Paris, the upper crust that called itself the whole of Paris.
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The months following Epstein's release from prison would be crucial for the disgraced financier as he began his reacclimation to the upper-crust social circles he had occupied before his arrest.
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But Alice is engaged to a doughy upper-crust type, Phillip Booster (Todd Buonopane), while Al has been keeping time with his club's chanteuse, the peerlessly named Mona Low (Mylinda Hull).
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Washington Wizards (18-25) Indiana has crashed the East's upper crust to give the conference its own Fab Five, but we were not exaggerating the drop-off to the chasing pack.
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Newly released campaign finance reports through the end of July show that upper-crust Republicans are not backing Donald Trump even though the majority of the party's base supports the nominee.
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The out-of-control burning of fossil fuels, driven by wanton capitalism, has enriched the upper crust while emperiling not just all of humanity, but life on Earth as we know it.
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The Saturday Profile BEIJING — At the gallery opening of China's hottest-selling artist, Zeng Fanzhi, in Manhattan a year ago, Chinese billionaires mingled with the upper crust of New York's art world.
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But in the script by Jenny Bicks ("Sex and the City") and Bill Condon ("Beauty and the Beast"), his lowly upbringing still makes him yearn for acceptance among the upper-crust swells.
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If you drive north from Detroit on Woodward Avenue, which extends outward from the city like the spoke of a wheel, you'll eventually reach Bloomfield Hills, known for its upper-crust sensibility.
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But Johnson, a product of Eton and Oxford, is a creature of the upper crust of British society; Trump has carried his outer-borough resentment of social elites into the White House.
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His seat, parts of which were once represented by George H. W. Bush, reflects modern-day Houston, an amalgam of upper-crust whites and a growing minority community that speaks 80 languages.
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Doisneau, unlike the upper-crust Cartier-Bresson, was from a middle-class suburb, documenting "the ordinary gestures of ordinary people in ordinary situations", while making sure never to strip them of their dignity.
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A once-influential force that skewered the city's upper crust, the Observer struggled in recent years under the stewardship of Kushner, who stepped down as publisher of the paper to join the administration.
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Take the simmering jealousy found in many female friendships, ratchet it up, and mix in some seriously Ripley-esque longings for upper-crust lifestyles, and you'll land at Anna Pitoniak's utterly enthralling novel.
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In a month, prestigious auction house Christie's will invite the upper crust of the art collector world to their Manhattan showroom to bid on a gold-framed impressionistic portrait of a European gentleman.
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Then the looters and arsonists moved north to Koreatown full of electronics stores and businesses and towards Wilshire Boulevard, the border with upper-crust Los Angeles where the very rich lived and shopped.
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He writes minimally about his own creative process for the same upper-crust reason that he writes minimally about his suffering—only second-rate people go on and on about their inner lives.
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Then Barnum starts chasing respectability, hiring an upper-crust playwright (a colorless Zac Efron), who falls in love with an acrobat (Zendaya), and presenting on tour the opera singer Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson).
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Maduro's move toward free enterprise is having an impact, stabilizing oil exports, bringing the city of Caracas back to life, and giving the nation's upper crust new opportunities to stash and spend money.
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As he spoke, workmen in the upper-crust district of central Paris set about cleaning the defaced Arc, removing charred hulks of cars and replacing the shattered windows of banks, restaurants and glitzy boutiques.
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At the end of "Ship It," we're told that the women, allegedly the upper crust of Manhattan, are stricken with diarrhea, inciting a rash of toilet paper thievery and sweaty rushes to the bathroom.
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"In doing so, what we want is the upper crust of all those entities that really manage their environmental, social and governance issues at a very high level compared to their peers," he said.
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Felix gains entry into such esteemed '80s-decorated headquarters because he knows Isabella (Teresa Ruiz), a woman who climbed from Sinaloa to the upper crust – and kept her eye on Felix all the same.
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Since then, the wealth of the upper crust in the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, has grown faster than the wider economy, the stock market, home prices and wages.
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Most of the Dirty Dancing's original themes — a hypocritical upper crust, social and class tensions, and frigid family dynamics — were watered down with heartwarming family reconciliations, interracial friendships, and empowered girls being empowered together.
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Nocturnal Animals tells the story of Susan (Amy Adams), a gallery curator whose upper-crust Los Angeles lifestyle is interrupted by the arrival of a violent, tragic manuscript from her ex-husband Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal).
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Jacqueline has to get used to a hardscrabble lifestyle after receiving only $12 million in her divorce, and finds herself reduced to crawling through a businessman's Bentley to avoid judgment from an upper-crust rival.
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Other Gossip • We only get a taste of the lush, upper-crust French grandiosity that the imagery in the new credit sequence promises through the archly villainous yet well-dressed Comte St. Germain (Stanley Weber).
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Murphy oozes charm, confidence, a mastery of physical comedy and improvisation (including a whole ad-libbed monologue), and a complete awareness of how unsettling his presence is to the upper-crust white society he's invaded.
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When the boys' myth-recounting mother dies, Ronald (played in his teens and beyond by Nicholas Hoult) goes to the upper-crust King Edward's School, where a group of like-minded friends teach him about fellowship.
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This stagnation, exacerbated by the fact that most of the income gains the economy has managed to achieve have gone to the upper crust, underlies much of the anger coursing through the public this election year.
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Think of Benedict Arnold, an American general in the war of independence who asked for £20,000 to defect to the British side; or of the "Cambridge Five", upper-crust Britons who spied for the Soviet Union.
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Understatement is, of course, flattering to the observer who picks up on it, which may explain why Nix seems to draw the upper crust of the downtown creative class, people with interesting jewelry and significant haircuts.
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Summer House's cast is made up of a group of hardworking New York millennials who head to the upper-crust East Hampton town of Montauk every weekend in the summer for uninhibited debauchery and good times.
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Museums & Galleries Focused on one striking Sargent portrait amid family ephemera, this exhibition, which closes on Sunday, details candidly and vividly the difficulties faced by a Jewish family trying to assimilate into upper-crust British society.
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Upon her return home to New Orleans, Edna trades the social minutiae expected of upper-crust Victorian white women — receiving callers and returning their calls — for painting, walking, gambling, dinner parties, brandy, anger, aloneness and sex.
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" "A little bit more ethnic, a little bit more blue collar, a little bit more middle America, less upper-crust country-club types," Barr said, asserting that the mainstream Catholic vote "is the swing vote, frankly.
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The McMahons acting so openly weird, even if it was just a storyline, had the feel of taboo to it, like we were seeing the curtain pulled back on what a certain upper crust were really like.
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Mr. Turnbull's maneuver, seen by some as an upper-crust approach to a simple (but revered) meal, set off debate on social media sites, with some wondering why the prime minister hadn't taken a more direct approach.
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Even in the 214th century, Florence was a popular tourist destination, particularly for upper-crust Victorians who, continuing the previous century's tradition of the Grand Tour, flocked here to enhance their knowledge of art and the classics.
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The structure of the novel spirals out from a single point: an unexpected meeting in 1960s Lima between Santiago Zavala, a 30-year-old reporter estranged from his upper-crust family, and Ambrosio, his family's former chauffeur.
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A few years later, the director James Ivory cast her in her breakthrough role in the British class drama "Howards End" as the well-heeled, earnest Margaret Schlegel, who gets involved with Anthony Hopkins's upper-crust widower.
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The resilient heroine of the Meredith Willson musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" was always an upbeat go-getter, with an action-packed journey that took her from a hardscrabble Rockies mining town to the Denver upper crust.
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But even its biggest adversaries might agree that you don't have to fully embrace the affluence porn or the upper-crust narrative of Crazy Rich Asians to understand that its success has the power to break down barriers.
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In 2014, researchers used seismic waves to detect a large magma body in the upper crust, but because copious amounts of carbon dioxide and helium were leaking from the ground, scientists figured more magma was located further down.
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At Nick's friend's budget-busting wedding, Rachel shows up after a defiant makeover wearing a borrowed Marchesa gown in order to prove that she's just as capable of fitting in with the upper-crust crowd as anyone there.
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But the deal uprooted a longtime annex tenant, the Park Avenue Christian Church Day School, an upper-crust preschool that had to abruptly relocate to the Upper West Side just as the 23 school year was to start.
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By the time they left well into the evening, 100,000 balloons were ready to descend from the heights of the Wells Fargo Arena, drowning the Democratic party's presidential nominee and upper crust in a sea of star-spangled latex.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - For decades the Equestrian and Racing Club has given upper-crust Sudanese the chance to learn horse riding and watch horse racing in a shady compound set apart from the surrounding urban bustle of the capital Khartoum.
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" From his perspective, graffiti forced the upper crust to reckon with the names and the fugitive dreams of a forgotten underclass: "You hit your name and maybe something in the whole scheme of the system gives a death rattle.
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In the memoir sections, Skidelsky languidly lays out his desultory youth (county-level tennis player, Doc Martens-wearing rocker) and upper-crust education (Eton, Oxford) through an early-adulthood bout with depression and a difficult time with his girlfriend.
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The curators of Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world made the meaningful decision to install the exhibition throughout the museum's Gallery of Canada, amid the furniture, paintings, and luxurious silverware once owned by the Canadian upper crust.
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The opera, and the after-party, drew the upper-upper crust of New York society, like John Jacob Astor; J.P. Morgan; Nicholas Murray Butler, the president of Columbia University; and people with the last names Belmont, Vanderbilt, Juilliard, Guggenheim.
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Kevin Kwan makes it clear that among certain circles in upper-crust Asian society, you're only worth as much as the labels you choose to wear — and the tackiest thing you can do is to dress above your station.
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Hicks' departure capped her meteoric rise from Trump Organization communications aide to the upper crust of power in Washington in just a few years, during which Hicks sought to maintain a remarkably low profile for someone in her position.
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These subjects are then placed within the socio-economic setting of 17th-century Holland and Europe more broadly: the cultural milieu, tastes of the upper crust, and moral norms that bear upon Vermeer's artistic decisions, both by choice and necessity.
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There are alliances in the Midwest between back to the land hippies, upper crust financiers, and close-minded old farmers that have created a wealth far less ostentatious than the flash of El Lay or the Hamptons, but perhaps more enduring.
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Her decision to fight the team alongside Russ is sparked by her love for her parents rather than some renewed identification with Native American culture, and she can work to take down the name from within her preferred upper-crust circles.
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HONG KONG — Anbang Insurance Group burst onto the global deal-making scene in 2014 when it announced a nearly $2 billion deal to purchase the Waldorf Astoria hotel, an Art Deco symbol of New York's Champagne-soaked upper-crust life.
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"I would describe Barr as a cross between Mr. Wolfe, the fixer in 'Pulp Fiction,' and one of the wise men-type upper-crust figures who believe they protect and shape America," said Ketan Jhaveri, a former Justice Department official.
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While Dr. DeSalvo became an influential Woolf scholar, she felt that she was not a natural match with that upper-crust author, noting at one point that there was no record of Woolf's eating pasta on a visit to Italy.
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In 2016, the country was exhausted with upper-crust game players like David Cameron, her predecessor, who had casually led the country into turmoil by promising a referendum on leaving the European Union, never expecting that the Leave side would win.
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One of the most pointed critiques of the Warren candidacy was written this October in The Hill by Krystal Ball, a former MSNBC host who supports Bernie Sanders: Warren's upper-crust fan base is, in itself, a cause for concern.
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Sanders' campaign has begun stealthily attacking Warren as a candidate of the upper crust who could not expand the Democratic base in a general election, according to talking points his campaign is using to sway voters and obtained by POLITICO.
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But here's another way to look at it: For the wealthiest people in the world, who retain their standing in the upper crust through credentials like elite schools, it is perhaps surprising that someone like Tao Zhao wouldn't pay more.
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A talented portraitist, Jen is prone to constant apologizing and never taking herself quite seriously enough, while Pam is a dedicated starving artist with a secret safety net, and Meg embodies the essence of upper-crust chic in all that she does.
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The Jaguar XF is a big bad cat when you see it approaching, but inside I found the materials lackluster, which isn't enough for this upper-crust category composed of competitors like BMW 5 series, Audi A6 and Mercedes-Benz E-class.
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This feels like a movie from another era, where finding Japanese Claritin in the back of a limo would surely be a sign that the person with a Japanese name but a firmly upper crust British accent was in on the crime.
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Though it has lost thousands of members in recent decades, the Episcopal Church was long considered religion's upper crust in the United States, with landmark sanctuaries such as the National Cathedral in Washington and St. John the Divine in New York City.
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The Pacific seems to be a bit stronger these days with Edmonton joining the likes of San Jose, Los Angeles and Anaheim in the division's upper crust, so games such as Saturday's showdown between the host Sharks and Ducks take on greater meaning.
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Although today's exotic dancers are associated with grimy clubs, Mata Hari's sensational premiere took place at the Musée Guimet in Paris, an art institution where it was seen by upper-crust socialites, and her enormous and immediate success thrust her into their ranks.
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As film subjects go, the soullessness of the upper crust counts as low-hanging fruit, even before "Boris Without Beatrice" begins drawing a faintly meaningful parallel between Boris's life and that of Tantalus, for whom sustenance was always just out of reach.
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Should the world continue to pause in silence to honor the sacrifice and bravery of those who fought it on the ground — "lions led by donkeys," according to a phrase used to scorn the bumbling British officer class drawn from the upper crust?
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A host of celebrities own homes in the Cotswolds and some of the region's towns have a decidedly upper crust vibe, leaving those who lack quality driving gloves and a fancy hat worthy of Kentucky Derby Day feeling a shade out of place.
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British Vogue would have been a decade into circulation at that point, but the upper-crust northerners (Downton is set in Yorkshire) wouldn't exactly have been in step with common cosmopolitan tastes — and not least because Countess Violet (Dame Maggie Smith) wouldn't approve.
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The sound was crystal clear — that of mischief, a love of writing, a love of city life, a misfit community upending and infuriating the entire media business, celebrity culture, upper-crust culture, "cool" culture, and anything else in New York that took itself too seriously.
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With his proximity to the social upper crust, he was regularly commissioned to paint portraits of the wealthy, which granted him the financial stability to pursue his own projects, the work that would earn him exhibitions in museums and lucrative contracts for public statues.
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While we see only a couple of shots in the episode, the show's creators actually filmed an entire 8-minute opening scene for the film — which, for the record, is about a masked man who murders upper-crust preppies with a sharpened croquet mallet.
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As an editor, he deserves eternal praise for championing both the young Pier Paolo Pasolini (with whom he collaborated on a few film projects) and Giuseppe di Lampedusa, whose "The Leopard" had been rejected by other Italian publishers as too old-fashioned, too upper-crust.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Conservative leader whose upper-crust mannerisms are easy to parody, stretched out on the frontbench during an evening debate, his languorous pose launching a thousand Twitter memes and becoming a metaphor for Britain's out-of-touch, Eton- and Oxford-educated elite.
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Through this lens, it's not hard to see why Buttigieg's plan calls only for free public (not private, mind you) college for the kids of any family earning less than $100,000, a bone tossed out to the less wealthy from the magnanimous upper crust.
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The book is filled with delirious references to the plush, extravagant lives of Asia's upper crust, but there's a major difference between reading about the gowns being worn, the food being served, and the luxe Singaporean condominiums and actually seeing those things come to life.
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Dexter, who as part of a lifelong campaign for admiration and upper-crust respect filled part of his estate with honorary statues (including his own), famously emerged from hiding during his own staged wake to berate his wife, who was in on it, for not mourning enough.
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Threlkeld Journal THRELKELD, England — It was to have been a grand gesture, a deal that would transfer a mountain in the fabled English Lake District from the landed gentry to those who roam its heights, reversing a centuries-old pattern of ownership by the upper-crust few.
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Observing watchfully (some might say overearnestly) as the stakes are heightened is Hester Worsley, the play's lone American, who is courted by Gerald but otherwise exists at odds with the same frivolous English upper crust with which the Dublin-born Wilde was clearly and entirely smitten.
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Finally, it benefited greatly from the fabulous presence of Gina Gershon as Helene Von Wyatt, a viciously snobby fashion designer whose upcoming show is a chance for the Lyon family to prove its upper-crust bona fides to Cookie's new boyfriend, Angelo DuBois, and his elitist mother.
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Hurst was a member of Washington's "Colored Four Hundred" — as the capital's black upper crust once was known — and was familiar with having to plan his life around hotels, restaurants and theaters in the city, and throughout the Jim Crow South, that screened out people of color.
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Freedom is illusory in his novel, and iniquity unbound by latitude, but he knows that the story of slavery is fundamentally the story of America, and he uses Cora's journey to observe our nation, from an upper-crust mixed-race family in Boston to a farming community in Indiana.
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Based on a graphic novel by artist Dave Gibbons and writer Mark Millar (who also wrote Kick-Ass), the film paired a veteran secret agent with ne'er-do-well youth Gary "Eggsy" Unwin (Testament of Youth's Taron Egerton), who has to confront both a flamboyant supervillain and upper-crust British society.
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Many of the servers hail from the upper crust of Pyongyang society in North Korea, and so they are probably more natural ambassadors on behalf of the country than the vast majority of the country's citizens, who suffer the brunt of its nightmarish food shortages and totalitarian control of social life.
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What if the cold-heartedness so often associated with the upper crust—let's call it Rich Asshole Syndrome—isn't the result of having been raised by a parade of resentful nannies, too many sailing lessons, or repeated caviar overdoses, but the compounded disappointment of being lucky but still feeling unfulfilled?
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Calvin's name could refer to the P in upper crust W.A.S.P., and the character notes in the script label Calvin and Mother as such, but nothing that happens on stage suggests tension over class or religion Girlfriend is generally coolly polite and, in a couple of brief jabs, blunt with Mother.
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Beloved by brides who have taken their vows in the fairy-tale setting, remembered wistfully by those who once partook of its formal afternoon tea, and long familiar to members of the city's upper crust who have mingled here during debutante balls and charity events, the Rotunda Room had languished in recent years.
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A Bloomberg presidency would be a return to American politics in which the upper crust of the white and financially secure could turn off their TVs and not have to worry about a commander in chief stumbling through sentences or constantly updating the world via social media about the latest Fox & Friends segment.
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While I'm not sure I'd want to live in such a mellow locale at this point in my life, I can certainly see the appeal for upper-crust businesspeople and families looking for a quiet vacation home where they can golf, play tennis, and relax on private beaches with their fellow millionaires.
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In 1960, as a junior counsel in the "Lady Chatterley" case, he played a prominent part in examining prestigious witnesses, including the novelist E. M. Forster, to support the argument that the novel, which explicitly describes the physical relationship between an upper-crust married woman and her husband's gamekeeper, was a work of literature, not pornography.
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The bars and the old cobbled streets fill with enthusiasts of all ages, many of them with no place to sleep, enacting the rituals of performative public inebriation, while in lamplit panelled Stuben the upper crust of Middle Europe convene for private self-congratulation over their good fortune at being here, now, at the center of the Alpine universe.
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Rising from the English upper crust—that school he shared with Peter and Gordon was Westminster, a famous London one—he absorbed many of its attitudes, although, the English crust having as many layers as a mille-feuille, one has the sense that he comes from somewhere in the more insecure upper middle, rather than from the very creamy top.
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In 1960s America, the plants became the defining decoration of the so-called fern bars, which took inspiration from idealized grandmotherly living rooms (along with banks of potted ferns, they often featured homey wooden tables with Tiffany-style lamps), creating a space where single women would feel safe sipping sugary cocktails — an upper-crust version of tiki bars, minus the exuberance.
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So while there is plenty of room for argument about whether he ever made a greater film, anyone seeking the perfect distillation of his sensibility should look no further than this 1975 drama about a naïve gay carnival worker (played by Mr. Fassbinder himself) who wins the lottery and is subsequently fleeced by his new upper-crust boyfriend (Peter Chatel) and high society.
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He went back to country for 2012's appropriately titled Home, but it was 2014's more grown up Riser—it had songs about loss and was dedicated to his dad, who died before the album's release—that truly launched him to the upper crust of country radio's apple pie; it spawned multiple hits and gave Bentley another shot at superstardom he's since taken to wholeheartedly.
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When her childhood friend Khalil (Algee Smith) is shot and killed in front of her by a white police officer as he drives her home from a party, Starr struggles to tell her account of the shooting as she knows she must face the task of being seen as a "ghetto" charity-case to her upper crust white peers or a snitch to her Black community.
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When asked about the inequitable distribution of wealth generated by this economic expansion, William M. Rodgers III, a professor and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, told NPR that the decline of labor unions, increasingly global competition for jobs as well as tax policies that benefit businesses and higher-income families likely all contribute to the concentration of wealth in society's upper crust.
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TWA highlighted this opulence in a series of ads featuring the actor Peter Sellers playing foreign stereotypes, including a suave Italian: (Sellers' upper-crust Englishman in another ad is equally over-the-top hilarious; the ad also features a cameo by the staircase leading to the second-level lounge.) Meanwhile, "the jet's elephantine proportions were both a gift and a challenge to the travel industry," Mr. Vanhoenacker writes.
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Joe Gregory—a burly Tennessee multi-millionaire who served as the face of the NRA's ultra-elite "Ring of Freedom" donor program—decided that the NRA's 2015 trip to Moscow would be the perfect occasion to make his first trip to Russia, and to schmooze with those sanctioned by the U.S. An appreciative Gregory returned the favor in 2016 by bringing Butina to the 2016 National Prayer Breakfast, where she mingled with the upper crust of America's Christian conservative community.
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