arriviste

Times’ Orange County bureau employed hundreds, with us as the foul-mouthed arriviste.

Her circle includes an aunt who is a champion wrestler, a resident Goth named Isabel and sultry Penny Century, an arriviste married to a wealthy magnate with horns on his head.

Zeynep Bozbay is warm and convincing as Marianne Effinger, who rejects her arriviste family’s lavish lifestyle by devoting herself to charity.

Bobby, in contrast, was nervous and volatile, the chess arriviste of Brooklyn, a colt of a player, and as it was beginning to develop, the spearhead of the coming generation of American players.

And in “Whitelisted,” Chisa Hutchinson turns a Black ghost loose on the brownstone of a gentrifying White arriviste.