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...being reached by an unprecedented number of magazine readers. As the baby-boom generation rumbles toward retirement age, publishers are scrambling to follow it. Titles like Rolling Stone and Ramparts, founded to document the boomers' rebellious youth, long ago yielded coffee-table space to Money and Parenting, with their grownup concerns. Now at least two new magazines--Meredith Corp.'s More and AARP's My Generation--claim they have figured out what's next on the mind of the 50-plus generation...
...first. "I could get more money from a [broadcast] network," he says, but "I was interested in doing the show the way I wanted." Now that creators like him can do that, it is, in the world of cartoons at least, a great time to be a kid, a grownup or--best of all--a little of each...
...case for the war on a daily basis-as Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf did during the Gulf War. And so the sober, 69-year-old Rumsfeld has become the Administration's go-to guy. With Dick Cheney mostly at his undisclosed location, Rumsfeld is the government's resident grownup, an acerbic spokesman who can convey condescension and playfulness in the same breath, as he did last week when chiding a reporter for "beginning with an illogical premise and proceeding perfectly logically to an illogical conclusion...
...were different, cooler, better, even if the tough guys and cheerleaders didn't know it. We cheered at the scene in Broadcast News where the young nerd (to become the grownup played by Albert Brooks) tells the lunkheaded bullies who beat him up at school that they'll never make more than $19,000 a year. We went to movies with names like Revenge of the Nerds--which even if no one knew it then were about exactly this new class division--then had our real-life nerds' revenge in the roaring...
...thing babies are good at: getting bored. Show a baby some objects, partly blocked by a screen, doing the same thing over and over, and most will tire and look away. Now show them what they had been missing. Some objects roll or fall, just as any grownup would expect. But others, thanks to trapdoors or hidden compartments, defy the laws of physics. They pass through barriers, or disappear and reappear. Are the babies surprised? Do they look longer at the impossible events, as if trying to figure out what just happened...