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Article: How the hip skip out on middle age
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 30, 1996
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Forever Cool: How to Skip Middle Age," reads a blurb on the cover
of January's Harper's Bazaar.
The story inside, "No More Middle Age" by Lynn Snowden, comes
accompanied by photos of the usual suspects: Goldie Hawn, Diane
Keaton, Lauren Hutton. There are a few unusual suspects too. Sharon
Stone has been promoted to this pantheon at the relatively tender age
of 38. Not that it matters. Age doesn't matter, not anymore.
That's Snowden's message. The sub-headline reads, "Thanks to the
youth-loving spirit of our baby-boomer culture, we've stricken the
term `middle-aged' from our vocabulary. Now just because we're
chronologically qualified doesn't mean we have to look or act it
(aren't we ...