Word: boomer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ivan Reitman, who directed Dave, believes the spate of White House movies may be in part a kind of narcissistic reaction to the Clinton presidency: the fact that Clinton, like many of those in power in Hollywood, is an unabashed baby boomer has made the office seem more accessible. "He's just like me," Reitman says. "He's my age. He probably smoked pot. There are a lot of commonalities." "He's more available to us," agrees Bernstein, who means "available" socioculturally as well as literally. The President's proclivity for hobnobbing with show-biz folk is well known...
...milk appeals to an aging "baby boomer" population seeking plant-derived foods, McGee says...
...students, our parents burned with a desire to cure the world's social ills. Eventually, as baby boomer adults, they became the "me" generation. Already, we act with indifference to humanitarian crises such as the one confronting us in Zaire. We can only speculate what label our generation will earn...
...drug of youth but rather of old age, the threshold of death--a little buzz before Kevorkian. It is a dulling drug, certainly useful as a palliative for the elderly. The young don't need to have their pain dulled. They need to learn from it. Perhaps baby-boomer parents, as they grow old, should reserve the world's marijuana supply for themselves and for what will no doubt be the gaudy and self-important theatrics of their dying, and encourage their children to be satisfied with becoming better adults than some boomers have managed...
Today baby-boomer parents who may have smoked pot in college can tell their kids that we know a lot more about marijuana now than we did 25 years ago. We know that it can savage short-term memory and that it adversely affects motor skills and inhibits social and emotional development--just at the time such skills and development are most critical, when kids are in school. We can tell them that smoking pot as a young teen is decidedly more dangerous than beginning at twentysomething. Our research shows that the earlier someone smokes marijuana, the likelier that youngster...