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Kids of the baby boom...
This time the boom is different. "A connection is really being made between the audience and the music," says Bill Ivey, director of the Country Music Foundation. "In the '70s and '80s, with the excesses of the sexual revolution and the excesses of an out-of-control speculative economy, everybody lived as though they could have it all today and all tomorrow. Now, with the collapse of the savings and loans, the specter of AIDS, and a weak economy in which anybody who has a job considers himself lucky, I think everybody realizes we are going to have to live...
...pieces fit logically. Three yuppieish children who ungratefully depose their father in the interest of fiscal stability are stand-ins for the whole indulged baby-boom generation. The burnt-out father, who obsesses about the past and about a supposed universal abandonment of standards, epitomizes a dying elitist culture. But while the children emerge with convincing particularity, all Ron Rifkin's fiery righteousness and icy brilliance cannot make plausible the contrived second act, which centers on the father's buying and burning an original painting by Hitler...
...Aliens, Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2, Jessica Lange and Sally Field in Country and Places in the Heart. Overall, Faludi finds that female characters were more likely to be portrayed as obsessed with career at the expense of family (Broadcast News), burning out from the rat race (Baby Boom), abandoning their children (Three Men and a Baby) or exploring the rewards of prostitution (Pretty Woman...
...third-floor Littauer office and holding seminars in his Belmont home. From February 1987 to June 1990--a remarkably long tenure--he was the Head Tutor of the Government Department. In those three and a half years, the number of government concentrators increased 45 percent--the biggest boom the department has seen in decades. Peterson oversaw it all, and took an active role in restructuring the department...