Tipper Gore Concepts

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum · 19 Sep 2011 · 821pp · 227,742 words

punk rock dance group. We did a TV pilot for a comedian named Kenny Everett, and when it was shown, Mary Whitehouse, who was the Tipper Gore of England, stood up in the House of Parliament and said we were lewd and should be banned immediately. Which, of course, meant instant fame

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on. The six year old, demonstrating a precocious ability to follow plot, soon asked, “Mom, why is the teacher taking off her clothes?” The mother, Tipper Gore, was married to United States Senator Al Gore, and as she spoke to her circle of friends, many of whom were also married to politicians

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“We’re Not Going to Take It” when they should have been working. “Graphic sex, sadomasochism and violence, particularly toward women, are rampant on MTV,” Tipper Gore testified. MTV had been asking bands to edit and tone down videos ever since “Girls on Film.” By the time of the PMRC hearings, the

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-person standards and practices department. JEFF STEIN: “Don’t Come Around Here No More” is the video that led to the formation of the PMRC. Tipper Gore’s daughter saw the video, and the cake-cutting freaked her out. Around that time, a parent-teacher organization picked the five most offensive music

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Take It” V for Violence. When I testified before Congress, I said, “These lyrics are no more violent than the Declaration of Independence.” MARTY CALLNER: Tipper Gore and the PMRC called “We’re Not Gonna Take It” the most violent video of all time. Which is pretty funny, because there was no

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, because some of the things they accused us of playing were either videos we didn’t play or videos we played in an edited form. Tipper Gore was at the meeting. I think she was surprised to learn that we had standards at all. SAM KAISER, MTV executive: We secretly called Michelle

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

by Johann Hari · 1 Jan 2018 · 428pp · 126,013 words

misleading and unscientific.”10 It had been useful in only one sense. When the drug companies wanted to sell antidepressants to people like me and Tipper Gore, it was a great metaphor. It’s easy to grasp, and it gives you the impression that what antidepressants do is restore you to a

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It (New York: Random House, 2004); Harriet A. Washington, Deadly Monopolies: the Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself (New York: Anchor, 2013). Chapter 2: Imbalance Tipper Gore David Healy, Let Them Eat Prozac (New York; London: New York University Press, 2004), 263. What’s the evidence, he began to wonder, that depression

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Hardback) - Common

by Alan Greenspan · 14 Jun 2007

February 17,1993,1 found myself in the uncomfortable glare of the TV lights at a joint session of Congress, sitting between Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore. The front row of the gallery was not exactly where I'd expected to be for President Clinton's first major congressional address. I had

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This file was collected by ccebook.cn form the internet, the author keeps the copyright. PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT 2 I was sandwiched between Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore as President Bill Clinton presented his deficit-cutting package to a joint session of Congress on February 17, 1993. While the political theater of the

Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

by Matt Taibbi · 7 Oct 2019 · 357pp · 99,456 words

an early version of America’s most dependable moral-panic frontman, Tom Hanks. Often the panic came hand in hand with a ready legal solution. Tipper Gore’s “Parents Music Resource Center” freakout over heavy metal lyrics was an eighties re-hash of Mod-Rocker fear. The solution, thankfully, was tame: warning

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embellish their anti-portraits in their heads. In America in the eighties and nineties there were usually people to counter such public panics. For every Tipper Gore, there was a Frank Zappa or Dee Snider appearing for the defense. In our new cleaved and atomized landscape, those brakes are gone. Every demographic

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

by Sebastian Mallaby · 10 Oct 2016 · 1,242pp · 317,903 words

chief—the White House arranged for him to listen to the address from a perch between the first lady, Hillary Clinton, and the second lady, Tipper Gore. When the president reached the part of his speech dealing with his budget plan, the TV cameras zoomed in on the red-suited first lady

This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America

by Ryan Grim · 7 Jul 2009 · 334pp · 93,162 words

rapper Dr. Dre’s 1992 solo debut, announced its drug policy right on the CD: a symmetrical green pot leaf on a simple black background. Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource Center might have lamented the misogyny and violence threaded throughout the work of Dre’s old group, N.W.A

Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines

by Bill Hicks · 2 Jan 2005 · 525pp · 138,747 words

America will have a rock ’n’ roll President in the White House. But if Bill Clinton takes the oath, the deal involves PMRC head-babe Tipper Gore too. Top US funnyman BILL HICKS casts a dry eye over the election circus . . . With the presidential election currently taking place here, it has become

Ayn Rand Cult

by Jeff Walker · 30 Dec 1998 · 525pp · 146,126 words

John LaWare groans, “I can’t imagine, to this day, how Alan Greenspan got himself euchred into sitting in that box”—between Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore—“for the Presidents first State of the Union message. I think that was a serious mistake.” As a former Fed official put it, “He desperately

How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words

statistically true. The way to a person’s heart is to declare the opposite—that you’re in love because you can’t help it. Tipper Gore’s Parents’ Music Resource Center notwithstanding, the sneering, body-pierced, guitar-smashing rock musician is typically not singing about drugs, sex, or Satan. He is

The America That Reagan Built

by J. David Woodard · 15 Mar 2006

one hits in 1984. The most flamboyant artist of the time was Prince Rogers Nelson, whose shocking lyrics on the album Dirty Mind (1980) led Tipper Gore to form the Parents Music Resource Center in 1984 to protest sexually explicit lyrics. That protest would eventually result in ‘‘Parental Advisory’’ labels on album