Time Magazine Just Six Months From Big Cocktail-Nation-Craze Story

NEW YORK—Zeitgeist-monitoring sources reported Monday that Time magazine is a mere six months from a major cover story on the pop-cultural phenomenon known as “Cocktail Nation”—the retro-lounge revival of the early-’60s swinging bachelor-pad lifestyle that rose to popularity in the early ’90s. “It is important that Time keep its readers abreast of cutting-edge developments such as Cocktail Nation,” said Time editor-in-chief Ted Schildkraut. “We were also the first to bring readers the ultra-hip ’Riot-Grrrrl’ movement of late ’80s, which we featured in a big, timely, December 1996 piece.” Other popular-trend stories that Time plans to run in the future: “Cigar Chic,” in May 1999; “Everybody’s Moving To Seattle,” in 2001; and “Rap: The Beat Of The Street,” in late 2006.