ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, August 16, 1996 TAG: 9608160036
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
COLUMN: Friday Something
SOURCE: NANCY GLEINER
If you burned your bra in the '60s (or never wore one at all), you just might be one of the boomers who's buying a daughter a Wonderbra in the '90s.
And while surfing used to involve waves and Beach Boys music, now it's modems and the Net.
``Peyton Place'' is ``Melrose Place,'' ``The Beverly Hillbillies'' is ``Beverly Hills 90210'' and the handsome Dr. Kildare has been transformed into the "ER'' docs.
Alice's Restaurant has been replaced by the Hard Rock Cafe, Julia Child by Martha Stewart and Cary Grant by Hugh Grant (perhaps with fewer scruples).
The Playtex 18-Hour Girdle has been abandoned for liposuction, G.I. Joe for Power Rangers and roller skates for rollerblades.
``The Graduate'' has given way to ``Forrest Gump,'' Mary Tyler Moore to Demi Moore and Lucy to Roseanne (perhaps with fewer scruples).
There's a French saying that, translated, means ``the more things change, the more they are the same'' - they just get updated, like Barbie's clothes.
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