Word: gens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...around Sunset Boulevard, ready for their close-up. It was a good-natured crowd. Just your average L.A. auditioners taking the morning sunshine by standing in a never-ending line wrapped around a studio. The ages seemed to range from late teens to early septuagenarians, with the majority being Gen X-ers in their late 20s and early 30s. Many were well prepared for the ordeal. I saw auditioners applying suntan lotion in varying SP factors, drinking bottled water sporting various designer labels, and several comfort-loving individuals who had brought portable beach chairs and recliners to help them endure...
...hand-over of Hong Kong to mainland China is a relatively minor event among the emotional cataclysms in this short-story debut. Chiu refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers, inspired more by Kurt Cobain than by Buddha. The resulting chasm between the Chinese Americans and their immigrant parents is filled with disappointments, with tales of anorexia and homophobia, and that stubborn reluctance by young and old to see each other as each wishes to be seen...
Nothing is more adored by cubicle-dwelling Gen-Xers than geek kitsch. And nothing is geekier or kitschier than Japanese video games of the 1980s, back when efficient translation was not considered essential. The dialogue of Zero Wing contains such gems as "Somebody set us up the bomb," "Take off every Zig for great justice" and a chilling warning from a villain known only as Cats: "All your base are belong to us." Late last year, fans with too much time on their hands started doctoring photos to show this last phrase cropping up everywhere from George W. Bush billboards...
...Gen Ys have used music to connect with our parents in a way our parents couldn't connect with theirs. But that intergenerational bonding has meant rock can never be an expression of solidarity for my generation the way it was for my father's. We came to our first concerts already divided into subcultures, armed with the different rock educations our parents gave us. Musical taste became our primary means of distinguishing ourselves from one another. In college most indie-rock kids respected hip-hop, and most hip-hop kids respected indie rock, but there was rarely any question...
...twice that for couples) tax free every two years. Instead of trading up to pricier homes, many boomers now warming empty nests can move into less expensive abodes without a tax penalty. That's one reason for the probable record sales of condominiums in 2000. Another: their Gen-X kids who have flown the coop are starting to buy places of their...