Word: boomer
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...Beavis Generation's way of thinking, my friends and I are hopeless saps. We twentysomethings, overindulged products of the late 60s and early 70s (when the birth rate sagged) are far too weighted down by the powerful and populous Baby Boomer Generation...
...Baby-boomer parents were supposed to take their five-year-olds to the movies. In fact, they took their teenagers as well -- probably in separate cars -- to films that cut across generational chasms. "Someone called me yesterday," says Fugitive director Andrew Davis, "whose nine-year-old loved it." Nora Ephron, director of Sleepless in Seattle, surmises that her audience is "grownups -- over 18s, anyway -- and more females than males. But when you get up to where we are, everybody is going to see it." Wolfgang Petersen, whose In the Line of Fire is in the same box-office stratosphere...
...could take after Roseanne, the prime-time television character who is too busy, too gutsy and too existential to worry about how to strike a perfect balance between her waitressing obligations and her housecleaning ones. After all, the problem of these Harvard women could simply be the yuppie, baby-boomer hubris that says this generation of upscale Americans is going to make easy what their parents found hard. Or it could be just plain Harvard hubris. "In the Harvard community," says Suzanne Braun Levine, a Radcliffe graduate and editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, "there is such a historic sense...
...world Tommy portrays is bygone. People don't drop acid much anymore; electronic-video gamesters have crowded out pinball wizards; a baby conceived, like the title character, at the start of World War II is officially a pre- boomer and apt to be a grandparent today. So despite its billing as "new," Tommy becomes that oddest of entities, a period rock musical -- playing to a nonperiod audience. Unimaginably to kids who boogied in the aisles at concert versions way back when, the Broadway crowd cheers while sitting sedately, and there isn't a whiff of controlled substances in the house...
Some successful boomer churches are shrines to secular movements, particularly the 12-step programs modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous. "We refer to ourselves as wounded healers," says Minister Mike Matoin of Unity in Chicago, himself a former bellhop, bouncer, cabdriver, and child of an alcoholic. "A lot of baby boomers can relate to us. We've been through our / own recovery, and we're not on a pedestal." If a spiritual search is going on, it is for an inner child. In a room remarkably empty of religious paraphernalia, on a riser, behind the pulpit, an enormous teddy bear sits...