The Complete, Cross-Referenced Guide to the Baby Buster Generation's: Collective Unconscious - Softcover

Gaslin, Glenn; Porter, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572973358 ISBN 13: 9781572973350

Publisher: Boulevard, 1998

Synopsis

A dictionary covers 1980s popular culture

About this title

From the Author

A synopsis
There was the Depression generation. The Vietnam generation. But in the absence of any earth-shattering, life-changing, epoch-staging, Great Society-building, paradigm-shifting, destiny-manifesting event, what do we who grew up in the ’80s have to unite and define us?

Pong!

And the Rubik’s Cube. The A-Team. That Herb guy from the Burger King ads. Gorbachev and Imelda. Sam Kinison and Koosh balls. Kajagoogoo and Duran Duran. Let’s face it -- it was a decade even sillier than the ’70s ... but it was ours. This A-to-Z guide catalogues just about every piece of cultural sagebrush that drifted across the desert of the Reagan-Bush years -- fully cross-referenced for that "channel-surfing" feel we all know and love.

Historical events. Artistic achievements. Technological developments. Smurfberry Crunch. It’s all here in ... The Complete Cross-Referenced Guide to the Baby-Buster Generation’s Collective Unconscious.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Glenn Gaslin and Rick Porter are simply two guys who got tired of spending their college evenings repeating the same conversation ("Hey, you remember Galaga? And Manimal? Yeah, I saw Top Gun six times in the theater ...") every night. So they wrote a book about it.

CONTENTS (a sample)
Atari
Baby on Board
Cocaine
Dallas
Eurythmics
Flashdance
Glasnost
Hacky Sack
Inspector Gadget
Just Say No
Kate & Allie
Live Aid
McDLT
NKOTB
Oat Bran
Pac-Man
Quiet Riot
Rain Forests
San Diego Chicken
Teddy Ruxpin
Underoos
Valley Girls
Wall Street
Xanadu
Yugo
Zork

Edition details

• Publisher: Boulevard
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572973358
• ISBN 13: 9781572973350
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 248