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Intellectual opponents of globalization gleefully noted a double standard: We're willing to seize shipments of foreign berries to protect yuppie consumers (the sort of people who eat raspberries out of season) from inadequate foreign sanitary standards, so why aren't we willing to protect U.S. workers from inadequate foreign labor standards?
Mother Jones, Oct. 1987 Y-word yuppie (previously recorded) Variants: dirty Y-word Esquire, Feb. 1988 Y-people New Republic, Jan.
Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger as a mother and daughter forced to reconcile in the face of grave illness earn praise in this "East Coast yuppie Terms of Endearment " (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). The film is based on a novel by Anna Quindlen and, though small, is said to be emotionally powerful.
In Corpus Christi , the disciple characters are thinly sketched versions of familiar clichés: the taciturn hairdresser, the buff male hustler, the yuppie lawyer.
McEwan's aging yuppie ciphers differ only in their wine collections.