Word: boomerism
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...smoking marijuana once a day for several years may more than double the risk of developing throat and neck cancers. Add cigarette smoking, and the odds shoot up 36-fold. Turns out the time between smoking dope and cancer is about 30 years. So if you're a baby boomer who inhaled in the '60s, start getting regular checkups...
WOODSTOCK '99 '99 version of boomer event was, like, so messed up, dude. Next, Lilith Fair PMS riots...
...biography is a bayonet aimed straight at the candidacy of George W. Bush, who resembles more closely at times the indulged baby boomer who currently occupies the Oval Office than the restorative repository of moral authority he purports to be. In an interview with Talk magazine, he bragged about not liking to read heavy public-policy tomes and mimicked convicted killer Karla Faye Tucker's begging for her life on Larry King Live (which she never did). He then blew off his foreign policy shortfalls (referring to Greeks as "Grecians," confusing Slovenia with Slovakia) by suggesting he could hire people...
...least Zwick and Herskovitz hope you do. "I think the culture is more open now to the vicissitudes of human behavior," says Herskovitz. And in this highly confessional, Oprah-era America, whose very President is an over-emoting boomer man-child, he just might be right...
Fifties Guys got shut out of the White House because a couple of World War II Guys, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, won the presidency when they were old enough to be thinking about retirement, and then a Boomer, Bill Clinton, won when he was still in his 40s. If the World War II Guys hadn't been so reluctant to leave the stage and Bill Clinton had permitted the Fifties Guys to go in the normal order, the electorate still might not have reached the point of talking about who "experimented" with drugs (another usage invented for the privileged...