Word: boomerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse should be a balm for many a baby boomer's conscience. For the first time since 1992, illicit drug use among the tear-jerkingly precious 12- to 17-year-old age group has declined, dropping slightly to 9 percent from 10.9 percent in 1995 after three years of sharp increases...
...believe that a generation can be described as having a set of traits and a personality [SOCIETY, June 9]. We are talking about 45 million individuals with different experiences and genes. But, hey, don't let me rain on your media wonderland. No, I'll scratch my baby-boomer head and say, "Gosh, I thought those Gen X kids were lazy, ignorant losers, but I guess I was wrong. They're actually brilliant, ambitious, ironic folks who live at home till they're 30 and watch as much TV as they can!" I hope I'm not going...
...could buy about 11% of Comcast. (A similar slice of his company would cost $18 billion.) Roberts soon returned to Seattle with his investment banker Steven Rattner, the newly elevated deputy CEO of Lazard Freres in New York City. Like Roberts and Gates, Rattner is a low-key baby boomer with an intense interest in media and technology. On a Tuesday morning, four weeks after the dinner, Gates and Greg Maffei, Microsoft vice president for corporate development, went to Rattner's suite at the Woodmark Hotel, where, over corn muffins, they discussed the deal with Roberts. They settled the details...
...marry his girlfriend and have children. "The way I grew up? Talking about sex but not having it," he says. So why is Chasing Amy raunchy in the extreme, crudely anticlerical and sexually flamboyant ("Archie was the bitch, and Jughead was the butch," insists one character)? Only a boomer fixated on the Brady Bunch would find it puzzling. "I'm a jaded optimist looking behind the doors of small-town America," says Smith. "My generation believes we can do almost anything. My characters are free: no social mores keep them in check." View Askew's Website invites fans...
Before the CLINTONS and BLAIRS relaxed over champagne and a convivial dinner in London last week, the Boomer Buddies huddled about Iran. Enraged by its terrorism, its pursuit of nuclear weapons and its attempts to spoil Middle East peace, Clinton long ago imposed a trade embargo on Iran and has regularly denounced the regime. But with the new reform-minded cleric President, MOHAMMED KHATAMI, has Clinton softened on the regime? Actually, he told Blair, he was "very skeptical" that Khatami's election would bring real change to Tehran's foreign policy, and Blair agreed. But Clinton wants to make Iran...