Word: boomer
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...count--and they are overturning all the old stereotypes. Today some 74% of Americans 50 and older have grandchildren, and these grandparents are wealthier, younger and more active than previous generations. They seem to prefer working to retirement. Grandma is more likely to be making business deals than cookies. Boomer grandparents are also comfortable using modern methods, like e-mail, to maintain family bonds...
This isn't easy to say: Cameron Crowe's new movie, Almost Famous, is based on his own unique adolescence. Arrrrrrrrgh! you may be thinking. Here comes Crowe, another privileged male boomer, turning his teen years into a movie. How about a ticket to a sharp jab in the eye instead...
Even the title of the series on dying is targeted at boomers, though the couple disagreed on how best to approach them. Bill wanted to call it Living with Dying. Judith, knowing from surveys that audiences shy away from words like death and dying, pushed for something hopeful. On Our Own Terms, her choice, deliberately plays to the boomer conviction, she says, that "we can change things; we can control things." Bill thought the wording was wrong precisely because of that. "It feeds their egoism, their sense that they can control things," he said, "and they...
...Psychologists say that we spend most of our adult life refighting the unresolved battles of our childhood. So it is with this election. And ergo the fund-raiser concerts. Unlike 1992 and 1996, when baby boomer Clinton faced off against WWII veterans Bush Sr. and Dole, this election pits two kids of the '60s generation against each other. And their political differences are just a reflection of the cultural civil war of that...
...donors were treated to a concert featuring performances by nine musical acts embracing the last 35 years in contemporary music. But it was telling that the majority of the artists - and the audience -came of age in the baby boomer generation's halcyon years - the '60s and '70s. Even the show's younger performers, such as Lenny Kravitz and Sheryl Crow, are aligned musically with the traditions of that era rather than the current trends of dance, hip-hop and lite...