Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather than repelled by the movie's upscale ticky-tacky decor and more likely to respond to the sound track's cha-cha lounge music than to its earnest baby-boom lullabies by Simon and Garfunkel. The generation gap has come full circle. Kids today--they'd rather play Rat Pack in Vegas than run off with Katharine Ross on a bus to self-actualizationland. Plastics...
...sometimes mutable memories of aging "witnesses" and the fact that some of the most provocative evidence is secondhand. Industrious UFOlogists may spend years tracking down slim leads like the one attributed to a former cafe owner in Taos, N.M., who told interlocutors that an old customer, a desert rat named Cactus Jack, once told her he was "out there when the spaceship came down" and saw dead aliens with blood "like tar." But despite the best efforts of Kevin Randle and others, no one has yet been able even to confirm Jack's existence, let alone his veracity. Hunting spacemen...
...Worrying about the future is a major source of stress"--far more so than for their parents or grandparents. More than three-quarters of Xers say, "No matter what I plan for the future, when I finally get there, it's always something different." Some opt out of the rat race. "What seems like apathetic hedonism actually represents a fairly informed bet," American Demographics columnist Marc Spiegler wrote recently. "Why put up with the cubicled world's woes when its promised delayed gratification is an ever more dicey proposition?" The slogan on Eddie Bauer's shopping bags puts it succinctly...
However, like many Gen Xers who forswear the rat race, Smith seems seduced by it. Sure, he still lives in the Jersey 'burbs, with his View Askew Productions only a few blocks from his new condo in Red Bank. Sure, he's invested his profits in buying the local comic-book store. And sure, he claims that moviemaking--especially with his girlfriend as leading lady and a close buddy as producer--is "an easy way to avoid manual labor." But what about the pressure of writing the script for Warner Bros.' big-budget Superman Lives...
...nature-study lab and community center, has had no small part in the transformation. Operating with a paid staff of just five and an annual budget of $400,000, only 20% of it from government sources, Sister Carol's troops have herded dealers off corners, used amateur detectives to rat out nuisance bars, covered graffiti with murals and planted gardens in vacant lots. Hundreds of volunteers have made that possible...