Word: boomeritis
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time, Eichhorn's stories stood out for their juicy barroom-vignette style. Full of violence, sex and drugs, nearly all of them could begin, "I remember one time ?" Put into rough chronological order, starting from his childhood, the collection slowly adds up to a portrait of a rebellious baby boomer - from angry gridiron jock to drugged-out longhair, and into mellowed middle...
...once snide and affectionate. Executive vice president Michael Hirschorn calls VH1's focus not "nostalgic" but "retro," which he defines as less "sentimental and teary." (Although one could reasonably define it as "I am so not old enough to be nostalgic.") "The channel had been in a baby-boomer mode, which was very serious about music," he says. "We turned that into 'Let's have fun with pop culture...
...sleep patterns and sparks fatigue. Surgery corrected his condition, and the 6-foot-4, 335 pound Jenkins has been awake ever since, making two straight All-Pro teams. Several NFL general managers have named him the best lineman in the game, and ex-Cincinnati Bengals quarterback and CBS commentator Boomer Esiason simply calls Jenkins a ?freak.? Some peers go even further. ?Kris Jenkins is the dominant force in football,? says fellow Panther tackle Brentson Buckner...
Alternately ignored and derided by critics, Jahncke says his campaign is an opportunity to tap into the activism he felt so strongly about as a student—to connect the activists of today at Harvard and beyond with their baby-boomer predecessors...
...tour leader arranged for the couple to receive the honeymoon suite in a lovely beachside inn just steps from the crystal-clear water--at no extra charge. Both see themselves biking off into their golden years together or, as Margo says laughingly, at least as long as their boomer bodies hold...