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nouveau riche
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In twelve large, exquisitely staged, and sumptuously shot tableaux, a motley cast of performers--characters include Columbine, the Lover, the Trickster, an ex-gladiator Strong Man, the Poet, and a little girl--moves through dilapidated tennis courts and nouveau-riche colonnades, poolside bacchanals and sylvan executions on a pilgrimage to the sea.
Woody Allen tries to reason - unsuccessfully, as it happens - with his nouveau-riche wife, played by Tracey Ullman, in his newest comedy, ``Small Time Crooks.
Yet several people, not at all from the nouveau-riche class, told me that they like things better the new way: At least if you have money, you can buy something without hunting for it and without standing in line.
 
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