"It's not that you're not good enough. It's just that we can make you better. Given that you pay the price, we can keep you young and tender..."
Tears For Fears (Mothers Talk - Songs From The Big Chair). How I love those biting lyrics!
The mid-to-late 1980s were fixated with youthful looks, health and beauty. Of course, vanity was not invented in the 1980s, but there's no doubt that the boom era played host to that vice in plenty. More was definitely more. So it's wonderful to read Snoopy's advice on looking younger from May 1982 below.
He ponders the question of how to look younger deeply.
And then comes up with the perfect solution - better than anything on the market.
So simple.
And yet so absolutely impossible.
It's beautiful.
Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts, was a genius.
From 1950 until his death in 2000, he kept coming up with the goods.
And beagle Snoopy (Vs the Red Baron), Charlie Brown ("Good grief!"), Lucy (with her "crabby genes"), Linus (follower of the Great Pumpkin) and the others are today, deservedly, comic strip legends.
The original comic strips are being collected into a series of books, The Complete Peanuts, and I heartily recommend them.
Simple brilliance.
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