Word: uppercrustedly
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...wedding in Newport, R.I. a half century earlier. The bride (Gummer) loved Harris too, but it is Ann (played as a young woman by Danes), an aspiring jazz singer, who gets close to him. Instructive tragedy, however, interrupts their romantic interlude, warning them that the way of the uppercrust WASP must remain dutiful and joyless...
...never managed to find much to say. Sometimes she would ask me 13 times in a single meal if I lived nearby. (The answer, 13 times: “Yes, in the room next to yours.”) She seemed beyond conversation: ailing, 80, a member of old uppercrust Argentine high society. She could not have been more unlike my 20-year-old, Asian-American, middle-class self. This woman hobnobbed with European royalty and dined with Pavarotti in her day; I grew up pretending to be royalty (Cinderella) and dining on Publix chicken nuggets...
...behalf of the students of Eliot House, we would like to take issue with Melissa Crocker's unfair characterization of last week's Eliot House auction as a "rather staid" affair, reminiscent of our "uppercrust" past (Opinion, April...
...behalf of the students of Eliot House, we would like to take issue with Melissa Crocker's unfair characterization of last week's Eliot House Auction as a "rather staid" affair, reminiscent of our "uppercrust" past (Opinion, April...
Though the uppercrust jetsetters may have already left on an extended Thanksgiving hiatus, those of us stuck in Cambridge must endure yet another second-rate college weekend. The three days ahead, billed as Harvard's greatest gas, have yet to live up. Harvard-Yale weekend, in all her sexy splendor, is really just a big tease and everyone's her sucker...