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Thirtysomething (stylized as thirtysomething) is an American drama television series created by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz for ABC that aired from 1987 to 1991. [1]

95 relations: American Broadcasting Company, Angst, Ann Lewis Hamilton, Associated Press, Baby boomers, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Bedford Falls Productions, Carly Simon, Catchphrase, CBS News, Children's literature, Cold Feet, Comics artist, Corey Parker (actor), Counterculture of the 1960s, Date rape, David Clennon, David Marshall Grant, Drama (film and television), Eddie Albert, Edward Zwick, Eileen Brennan, Equal Justice (TV series), Erich Anderson, Femininity, Frasier, Golden Globe Award, Gynaecology, History of the United States (1964–80), History of the United States (1980–91), Homemaking, Interfaith marriage, J. D. Souther, Jack Gilford, Jay Gruska, Joseph Dougherty, Kellie Martin, Ken Olin, Los Angeles Review of Books, Marshall Herskovitz, Masculinity, Meagen Fay, Medieval literature, Mel Harris, Melanie Mayron, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM Television, Mill Creek Entertainment, Museum of Broadcast Communications, New York University, ..., Once and Again, Oxford English Dictionary, Patricia Kalember, Patricia Wettig, Paul Haggis, Peter Frechette, Peter Horton, Philadelphia, Philadelphia City Hall, Phyllis Newman, Polly Draper, Primetime Emmy Award, Princeton University, Return of the Secaucus 7, Revelation Films, Rhode Island School of Design, Richard Gilliland, Richard Kramer (writer), Scott Winant, Second-wave feminism, Seinfeld, Shirley Knight, Shock Records, Shout! Factory, Sisters (U.S. TV series), Stay-at-home dad, Stewart Levin, Strangers (thirtysomething), Susan Faludi, Sylvia Sidney, TBWA\Chiat\Day, Terry Kinney, The Big Chill (film), Through the Looking-Glass, Time Inc., Timothy Busfield, TV Guide, TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time, TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, University of Pennsylvania, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vietnam veteran, W. G. Snuffy Walden, Yuppie, Zen master. Expand index (45 more) »

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Angst

Angst means fear or anxiety (anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and anxious, anxiety are of similar origin).

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Ann Lewis Hamilton

Ann Lewis Hamilton is an American television producer and writer.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Baby boomers

Baby Boomers (also known as Boomers) are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. There are varying timelines defining the start and the end of this cohort; demographers and researchers typically use birth years starting from the early- to mid-1940s and ending anywhere from 1960 to 1964.

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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women is a 1991 nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Faludi, in which the author argues for the existence of a media driven "backlash" against the feminist advances of the 1970s.

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Bedford Falls Productions

Bedford Falls Productions (or The Bedford Falls Company) is the production company of Marshall Herskovitz, the co-creator of the television series thirtysomething and Once and Again, and the producer of Legends of the Fall and Blood Diamond.

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Carly Simon

Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and children's author.

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Catchphrase

A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Cold Feet

Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network.

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Comics artist

A comics artist (also comic book artist, graphic novel artist, or comic book illustrator) is a person working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books, or graphic novels.

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Corey Parker (actor)

Corey Parker is an American actor and acting coach.

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Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.

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Date rape

Date rape is a form of acquaintance rape.

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David Clennon

David Clennon (born May 10, 1943) is an American actor.

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David Marshall Grant

David Marshall Grant (born June 21, 1955) is an American actor, singer and writer.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Eddie Albert

Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005), known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist.

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Edward Zwick

Edward M. Zwick (born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker, director and Academy Award-winning film and television producer.

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Eileen Brennan

Verla Eileen Brennan (September 3, 1932 – July 28, 2013) was an American film, stage, and television actress.

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Equal Justice (TV series)

Equal Justice was a television legal drama broadcast in the United States by ABC from March 27, 1990 to July 3, 1991.

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Erich Anderson

Erich Anderson is an actor, sometimes credited as E. Erich Anderson, who has starred in film and on television.

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Femininity

Femininity (also called girlishness, womanliness or womanhood) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with girls and women.

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Frasier

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 11 seasons, premiering on September 16, 1993, and concluding on May 13, 2004.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Gynaecology

Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive systems (vagina, uterus, and ovaries) and the breasts.

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History of the United States (1964–80)

The history of the United States from 1964 through 1980 includes the climax and victory of the Civil Rights Movement; the escalation and ending of the Vietnam War; Second wave feminism; the drama of a generational revolt with its sexual freedoms and use of drugs; and the continuation of the Cold War, with its Space Race to put a man on the Moon.

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History of the United States (1980–91)

The history of the United States from 1980 until 1991 includes the last year of the Jimmy Carter presidency, eight years of the Ronald Reagan administration, and the first three years of the George H. W. Bush presidency, up to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Homemaking

Homemaking is a mainly American term for the management of a home, otherwise known as housework, housekeeping, or household management.

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Interfaith marriage

Interfaith marriage, traditionally called "mixed marriage", is marriage between spouses professing different religions.

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J. D. Souther

John David Souther (born November 2, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Jack Gilford

Jack Gilford (July 25, 1908 – June 4, 1990) was an American Broadway, film and television actor.

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Jay Gruska

Jay Gruska (born April 23, 1952) is an American songwriter and composer best known for his film and television scoring, and for writing hit songs for a variety of artists.

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Joseph Dougherty

Joseph Dougherty is an American television producer, writer, and director.

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Kellie Martin

Kellie Noelle Martin (born October 16, 1975) is an American television actress.

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Ken Olin

Kenneth Edward "Ken" Olin (born July 30, 1954) is an American actor, director and producer.

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Los Angeles Review of Books

The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) is a literary review journal covering the national and international book scenes.

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Marshall Herskovitz

Marshall Schreiber Herskovitz (born February 23, 1952) is an American film director, writer and producer, and currently the President Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America.

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Masculinity

Masculinity (manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles associated with boys and men.

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Meagen Fay

Meagen Fay is an American actress known for her work in television.

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Medieval literature

Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Florentine Renaissance in the late 15th century).

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Mel Harris

Mary Ellen "Mel" Harris (born July 12, 1956) is an American actress who first came to prominence in the late 1980s.

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Melanie Mayron

Melanie Joy Mayron (born October 20, 1952) is an American actress and director of film and television.

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MGM Home Entertainment

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment LLC is the home video arm of the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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MGM Television

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television (alternatively Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and Digital Group (commonly known as MGM Television and then-known as MGM/UA Television) is an American television production/distribution studio launched on June 30, 1956 as "MGM-TV" as a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From 2005 to 2006, MGM television programs were distributed by Sony Pictures Television (as a result from a Sony-led consortium buying MGM). Since May 31, 2006, MGM Television has resumed sole production and distribution of its programs on television. MGM Television has rejoined the first-run syndication market for the first time in many years with Paternity Court.

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Mill Creek Entertainment

Mill Creek Entertainment is an American home video company founded in 2002 by Ian Warfield, Robert Zakheim and Scott Moss in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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Museum of Broadcast Communications

The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is an American museum, the stated mission of which is "to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform and entertain through our archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to our resources." It is located in Chicago, Illinois.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Once and Again

Once and Again is an American television series that aired on ABC from September 21, 1999 to April 15, 2002.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Patricia Kalember

Patricia Kathryn Kalember (born December 30, 1956) is an American actress, best known for her role as Georgiana "Georgie" Reed Whitsig in the NBC drama series, Sisters (1991–1996).

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Patricia Wettig

Patricia Wettig (born December 4, 1951) is an American actress and playwright.

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Paul Haggis

Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television.

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Peter Frechette

Peter Frechette (born October 3, 1956) is an American actor.

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Peter Horton

Peter Horton (born August 20, 1953) is an American actor and director.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia City Hall

Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of government for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Phyllis Newman

Phyllis Newman (born March 19, 1933) is an American actress and singer.

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Polly Draper

Polly Carey Draper (born June 15, 1955) is an American actress, writer, producer, and director.

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Primetime Emmy Award

The Primetime Emmy Award is an American award bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Return of the Secaucus 7

Return of the Secaucus 7 is a 1980 drama film written and directed by John Sayles and starring Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre, Maggie Cousineau, Gordon Clapp, Jean Passanante, and others.

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Revelation Films

Revelation Films is an independent DVD distributor in the UK that licenses and distributes television, comedy shows, children's programmes and films on DVD.

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Rhode Island School of Design

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.

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Richard Gilliland

Richard Gilliland (born January 23, 1950) is an American television and movie actor.

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Richard Kramer (writer)

Richard Kramer (born April 21, 1952) is an American film and television writer and producer, playwright and novelist.

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Scott Winant

Scott Winant is an American television director and producer.

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Second-wave feminism

Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the United States in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades.

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Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998.

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Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight Hopkins (born July 5, 1936) is an American actress, who during her career has appeared in more than 50 feature films, playing leading and character roles, made-for-television movies and series, as well as Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.

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Shock Records

Shock Records (now part of Shock Entertainment) is an Australian independent record label.

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Shout! Factory

Shout! Factory is an American home video and music company founded in 2003.

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Sisters (U.S. TV series)

Sisters is an American drama series which aired on NBC for six seasons from May 11, 1991 to May 4, 1996.

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Stay-at-home dad

A stay-at-home dad (alternatively, stay at home father, house dad, SAHD, househusband, or house-spouse) is a father who is the main caregiver of the children and is generally the homemaker of the household.

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Stewart Levin

Stewart Levin is an American musician and composer who has composed music for television shows, including The Wonder Years, Picket Fences, The Practice and thirtysomething.

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Strangers (thirtysomething)

"Strangers" is a 1989 episode of the television series Thirtysomething.

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Susan Faludi

Susan Charlotte Faludi (born April 18, 1959) is an American feminist journalist and author.

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Sylvia Sidney

Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow; August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American actress of stage, screen and film, with a career spanning over 70 years, who first rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s.

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TBWA\Chiat\Day

TBWA\Chiat\Day is the American division of the advertising agency TBWA Worldwide.

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Terry Kinney

Terry Kinney (born January 29, 1954) is an American actor and theatre director, and is a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, with Laurie Metcalf, Gary Sinise, and Jeff Perry.

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The Big Chill (film)

The Big Chill is a 1983 American comedy-drama film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly, and JoBeth Williams.

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Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

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Time Inc.

Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.

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Timothy Busfield

Timothy Busfield (born June 12, 1957) is an American actor and director.

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TV Guide

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.

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TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time

100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time (1997) and Top 100 Episodes of All Time (2009) are lists of the 100 best television show episodes in U.S. television history.

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TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time is TV Guides list of the 50 most entertaining or influential television series in American pop culture.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Vietnam veteran

A Vietnam veteran is someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War.

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W. G. Snuffy Walden

William Garrett Walden, known as W. G. Snuffy Walden (born February 13, 1950) is an American musician and composer of film and television soundtracks.

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Yuppie

"Yuppie" (short for "young urban professional" or "young, upwardly-mobile professional") is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city.

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Zen master

Zen master is a somewhat vague English term that arose in the first half of the 20th century, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhist meditation and practices, usually implying longtime study and subsequent authorization to teach and transmit the tradition themselves.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirtysomething

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