Word: yuppieish
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...showing off their women and children, the Democrats sought to one-up the Republicans at every opportunity. In San Diego the Republicans had more than 40 women speakers. By Wednesday evening the Democrats had almost 50. The Democrats' yuppieish keynote speaker, Evan Bayh, trumped yuppieish Republican keynoter Susan Molinari's newborn with his twins. Advantage, Chicago...
...pieces fit logically. Three yuppieish children who ungratefully depose their father in the interest of fiscal stability are stand-ins for the whole indulged baby-boom generation. The burnt-out father, who obsesses about the past and about a supposed universal abandonment of standards, epitomizes a dying elitist culture. But while the children emerge with convincing particularity, all Ron Rifkin's fiery righteousness and icy brilliance cannot make plausible the contrived second act, which centers on the father's buying and burning an original painting by Hitler...
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