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Specifically, with really cheesy pop culture. Gen X developed its identity by being compared, usually unfavorably, with baby boomers. In part, the standard critique was that Gen X's culture was inferior--its music phonier, its ideals shallower, its icons pettier than those of the 1960s. True or not, as this cohort pushes 40, it has perversely rebelled against this gibe by embracing it--remembering its tackiest, most disposable childhood icons most fondly of all. If Gen X-ers turned nostalgic much earlier than the 30-year-olds of decades past, maybe it's because, inundated with video, musical...
...leaders produced a budget that looks very much like the Senate document but, somehow, projects $ 15 billion less spending. How did they accomplish that feat? An aide to Senate Republican chiefs had a simple answer: "They lie." Retorted an aide to the House G.O.R leaders: "Our numbers are no phonier than anyone else's." At this point, not one of the budget resolutions seems able to win the 218 House votes needed for passage...
...Babel began when Host Jack Paar cued Guest Maxwell with a remark that Walter Winchell "is after me." Not waiting to learn how, Elsa expanded like an enraged blowfish, crying: "He's never voted and never registered! Is that a good patriotic American or not? He is phonier than we are, Jack...
Life With Mother. A little phonier than Life With Father, but the same amount of fun (TIME...
Life With Mother. A little phonier than Life With Father, but just as much fun (TIME...