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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coupland documents the plight of Generation X through both narrative and frequent marginal comments. He dots the side-lines of his story with meaningless slogans, cryptic cartoons and biting definition of twentysomething life. A bumper sticker asks us to "Reinvent the Middle Class." A cartoon character informs his father, "You can either have a house or a life...I'm having a life." And everywhere there are definitions, capturing the essence of twentysomething life...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: Time to Put the 1960s to Rest | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

...city spent about $30,000 on a broad publicity campaign which included newspaper ads, radio announcements, cable television spots, street banners and even bumper stickers. A new phase of the program began yesterday as city contractors began collecting leaves for the first time to be composted in Framingham...

Author: By -michael Hughes, | Title: City Recycling More Than Expected | 10/8/1991 | See Source »

...logging, ranching and farming and those who want the state's resources protected. "The traditionalists have to realize that we've reached the end of what we have to waste," says naturalist and writer David Quammen. Some environmentalists have raised the slogan "Cattle-Free by '93." Ranchers reply with bumper stickers that read CATTLE GALORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cattlemen Vs. Granola Bars | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...millionaire, a richly satisfied limousine conservative and a star. His personal appearance fee has leaped from $1,200 three years ago, when his show was first syndicated, to $25,000. His "Rush to Excellence" speaking tours sell out and do a brisk business in Rush T shirts and bumper stickers. He has signed with Simon & Schuster to write a book, The Way Things Ought to Be, and is planning with Republican media mastermind Roger Ailes a half-hour nightly Rush to television. And, accolade of accolades, the moon-faced monologuist had his portrait painted by LeRoy Neiman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man. A Legend. A What!? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...knows exactly how old the kegerator is... ...but it has a Mondale-Ferraro bumper sticker on it. dream about, that you aspire to. "Actually, it was one of the rooms we saw first when we were freshmen and we were looking," Wong says. At the time, he says, they never thought they...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Cult Rooms | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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