Word: boomerism
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BASEBALL'S BOOMER STARTS SOME RUMORS Hard-throwing, hard-drinking Yankees pitcher DAVID (BOOMER) WELLS is causing a ruckus with a tell-all memoir due out this week, Perfect I'm Not! In 1998 Wells threw a perfect game--hence the title--but in Perfect I'm Not! he says he did it "half drunk, with bloodshot eyes, monster breath and a raging, skull-rattling hangover" after a night spent partying with the cast of Saturday Night Live. He also claims that "between 25% and 40%" of Major League players use steroids. Wells, who says he may soften up some...
...Boston organization is trying to come up with other techniques to address the needs of elderly parents living far from their baby-boomer offspring. Caring from a Distance, which started a year ago, is putting together a database that could potentially match elderly family members with volunteer caregivers, says president Ted Patton. "Let's say one adult child is living in New York and has a mother in California, and another baby boomer is in California and has a father in New York. The two could offer to be the eyes and ears for each other's family member, checking...
...facing one's mortality in an uncertain world isn't enough of an incentive, there are tangible health benefits to reconciling in the boomer years. Forgiving someone who was once important in your life can reduce your level of stress 15% to 20%, according to Frederic Luskin, senior fellow at the Stanford University Center on Conflict and Negotiation and author of Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription For Health and Happiness (HarperSanFrancisco). "Forgiveness is a form of resilience that reduces the wear and tear on the body and can lead to better health and better quality of life," Luskin says...
Theater, meanwhile, tried to keep from likewise aging itself out of business by expanding into youth-targeted productions like Def Poetry Jam and a La Boheme from Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann. But it also repeatedly reached back to baby-boomer-and-beyond icons (nostalgic, perhaps, for a time when you could get people to see an original Broadway show). It revived Oklahoma! and Into the Woods and Flower Drum Song. It adapted movies: Hairspray (John Waters' movie about early-'60s Baltimore), The Graduate, Marty, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? It even got choreographer Twyla Tharp, for Movin...
...parallel shift in the culture suggests that Clinton-era values are no longer America's. Though a baby boomer, Bush rejects the instant-gratification ethic embraced by Clinton, the nation's first baby boomer President. Bush went from party-hearty frat boy to hard liquor--drinking Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (until he shaped up in his 40s) without stopping to dabble in the counterculture or go anywhere in a VW bus. He often laments not being one of the Greatest Generation he so admires (although he was no more up front about not going to Vietnam than...