Word: boomerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the '70s, when a certain amount of marijuana burnout from the '60s became evident, pot fell into relative disfavor. But in the past decade, media stories registering disapproval of marijuana have tapered off. It has hardly discredited the substance that Head Boomer Bill Clinton, after stating four years ago that he hadn't inhaled, told an MTV audience that he wishes he could have done so. The President's sneaking snickering line (a kid still putting one over on his parents) suggested the boomers' ambivalence about pot and a kind of time-warping refusal to see it or themselves...
...life in real terms, to feel bad normally. Let's say you smoked marijuana heavily from age 16 to 26, then stopped. The way you process life events emotionally after that may be more like a 16-year-old." Could it be that the famous reluctance of the baby boomer to imagine himself as an adult has something to do with the weed he smoked when young...
...roadster is back. After years of declining sales, and against the Boomer vanguard of minivans and sport utilities, automakers such as Jaguar and Porsche have rediscovered and updated a vintage class of sports cars that have virtually no reason for being except the sheer wind-in-your-face joy of motoring...
BOSTON--The psychedelic sixties and everything the decade stood for came crashing down in FleetCenter Saturday night as a star-studded line-up of seasoned performers and the country's most famous baby boomer turned out for the Victory '96 Concert to support the re-election bid of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass...
...with the Democrats in the White House too, and that may be complicated by the Missourian's strained relationship with the President. Gephardt is a straight arrow who looks like he walked out of an episode of Happy Days and is said to disapprove of the President's baby-boomer propensity for self-indulgence. On a political level, Gephardt also resents Clinton for his "triangulation" strategy of distancing himself from congressional Democrats. To this day, Hill Democrats argue that Clinton owes his political resurrection not to adviser Dick Morris, who urged the President to co-opt G.O.P. issues...