Word: boomerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of Bennett's themes resonate with boomer parents who were '60s liberals but now seek an antidote to the antisocial, materialist messages their children are absorbing from popular culture. And as someone who himself played guitar in a rock band, had a date with Janis Joplin, opposed the Vietnam War and campaigned for civil rights in Mississippi, Bennett demonstrates through his personal journey how far America has moved during the past three decades on cultural issues...
...known that I, an educated, middle-class baby boomer, do declare that I have knowingly utilized a delta-9-thc delivery system (hereinafter referred to as "TOKING UP") for the purpose of inducing intoxication. My actions cannot be described as "experimental," as their outcome (hereinafter referred to as "GETTING STONED") was known to me in advance...
...mission and a well-targeted audience could be a financial success. Nickelodeon, now seen in 66 million homes, is the highest-rated basic-cable network, and it has spun off lines of imaginative toys as well as another cable channel, TV Land (ne Nick at Nite), aimed at baby-boomer parents. Nickelodeon has also provided a role model for reformers seeking to upgrade network fare for children. Says Kathryn Montgomery, president of the Washington-based Center for Media Education: "Nickelodeon shows that you can create more quality programming for kids in the commercial market...
...radio host Garrison Keillor and New Age guru MARIANNE WILLIAMSON. Jamie Lee Curtis' and TIM BURTON's next books are due out in the fall; and Julie Andrews (pen name: Julie Edwards) and RICKI LAKE both have publishers expecting manuscripts. Why children's books? "I think it's a boomer thing--a group of people recapturing their youth," says Wasserstein, whose book is about a girl's first theater visit. Plus, they're easier than autobiographies, although the inspiration for most of them is plain. Lake's book is about a fat girl; Burton's is about...
GARRY TRUDEAU is so successful as a cartoonist--Doonesbury, his definitive evocation of the baby-boomer zeitgeist, appears in 1,200 U.S. newspapers and has won a Pulitzer Prize--that he may be neglected as a writer. This week we welcome him to Time as a contributor of a hybrid Essay form that proves he's as amusing in words as in images. Trudeau has never been afraid to aim at the powerful; just ask any recent resident of the White House. But for his first Essay, he tackles the merely pesky--"Those goofy apostles of gracious living whose catalogs...