Word: polloi
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...guess the idea was that Mother was impressing him with how serious she was and Barry was impressing her with how serious he was and Father and I were impressing them with how we were just a couple of charter members of the hoi polloi who liked to eat food...
...taste of the real Atlanta, every delegate should "drop a dog at the Varsity." This sprawling landmark is where the pillars of society line up with hoi polloi for chili-topped hot dogs, cayenne-zapped onion rings and a cool, thick orange frosted. And to see local journalists at play, conventioneers can go to Manuel's Tavern, the spot for cold beer, spicy Buffalo chicken wings, lusty chili and burgers...
...down to a nearby cinema for the screening of "Good Morning, Vietnam." Apparently, some of the locals hoped to catch the show as well: the line in front of the box office snaked halfway around the block. As we were ushered into our reserved seating, some of the hoi-polloi greeted us with hisses, jealous no doubt of our preferred status...
...years ago, Truman Capote angered his friends in the Concorde set by serving gossip from their private stock to hoi polloi. Anyone with the price of four issues of Esquire magazine could oink over the deviances of their social betters. Each issue carried a "chapter" of what Capote promised would be his most important work. He called it Answered Prayers and described it as a novel-in-progress about New York and European high society...
...military service during the war. This Rambo coalition, known as the "war wimps," have become the dominant voice of American foreign policy in the 1980s. Having lost the war in Vietnam, they are now winning it on the movie screens, much to the bemusement of the popcorn chewing hoi polloi. Jack Newfield, who originally exposed Stallone and the Reaganistas as "war wimps" in The Village Voice, pondered, "Why [aren't] these bullies by proxy at least inhibited by a guilty conscience?" Certainly when one is wined and dined, lavished with praise by the nation's most prestigious academic institution...