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Word: groovier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...cast of characters sweeps into TV commercials and gives the viewing public a more telling picture of the U.S. population as a whole. During the baby-booming 1950s, advertising scenes were filled with contented suburban families. By the late '60s and early '70s, those characters gave way to a groovier generation of young people. In the years following that revolution, advertisers have slavishly followed a maxim that dictates YOUTH SELLS. In TV commercials, young people seemed to be the only ones driving cars, taking vacations and buying insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is That You on TV, Grandpa? | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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