Word: elvisheet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...global teens," the MTV generation born after the twentysomethings who were featured in Coupland's first novel, Generation X, published in 1991. But Generation X was so peppered with trademarks, jargon and faux chic that the cardboard characters collapsed. Although fictional trademarks also abound in Shampoo Planet (everything from ElviSheet computer software to the KittyWhip Kat Food System), Coupland does a better job of fleshing out these characters because he views them through the prism of conflict: hippie parents of the '60s raising their global teens...
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