nouveau riche

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Cameron, whose show is running at the Apollo Theater through May 7, first came to the New Diorama’s attention in 2018, when he and his company, Nouveau Riche, won the theater’s Edinburgh Untapped Award.

From New York Times

In February, after a Saudi novelist wrote on Twitter that Egypt had its “neck tied to aid from here or there,” the Egyptian newspaper editor Abdelrazek Tawfik referred to the Gulf countries as “barefoot and naked” nouveau riche who have no right to dictate to Egypt.

From New York Times

More ominous is the fear that their success has caught the eye of what some describe as Mexico’s “oligarchs” — old, wealthy families from the cities and nouveau riche drug cartel bosses whose investments have filled places like Cancun and Cabo San Lucas with all-inclusive resorts that destroy local business.

From Los Angeles Times

For a lighter touch, see Sébastien Marnier’s Hitchcock-inspired nouveau riche thriller, “The Origin of Evil,” a criminal romp that occasionally reverts to split-screen stylings as it tracks the shady maneuverings of relatives vying for possession of the family empire.

From New York Times

However, in a country where 90 percent of the population is voluntary migrants, mostly from the Indian subcontinent, and where they earn three to four times what they would earn at home, there is a better prospect of improving work conditions when the country is exposed to the scrutiny of an event such as the World Cup than when it remains simply a distant, nouveau riche Gulf state.

From Washington Post