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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...antipornography movement has some close cousins. One prominent grass- roots movement is the Parents Music Resource Center, led by Tipper Gore, the wife of Democratic Senator Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee. The P.M.R.C., through well-publicized hearings and letter-writing campaigns, has succeeded in persuading record companies voluntarily to identify recordings with explicit lyrics. Says Gore: "This is where the action is these days. I think it's very exciting what's happening all over the country. People in the communities are reawakening and reaffirming their commitment to values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Busters | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...With tongue in cheek, Senator John Glenn of Ohio pledged, "I plan to do nothing different." Then he took out a makeup kit, dabbed at his forehead and smoothed his thinning hair. One of the younger and more telegenic Senators who sits at the back of the chamber, Albert Gore of Tennessee, complained that the yellow wall that serves as his TV backdrop looks like "a Greyhound bus terminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights, Cameras, Tax Reform! | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...expected tone was indicated by one commission member, who told TIME, "The system suffered a breakdown under the people in charge." Confronted with tighter budgets and more demands, he said, "they skimped and made do in the wrong places--and that includes launch safety." Indeed, Tennessee Senator Albert Gore released a study showing that NASA had trimmed 70% of its safety and quality-control staff in recent years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Fixing Nasa | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

Better educated (twice as likely to go to college as their parents), idealistic and assertive, Baby Boomers were expected to remake the world. "We wanted to change it all, to do it our way," says Senator Albert Gore, 38, Democrat of Tennessee. In some ways the Baby Boomers have indeed turned old values upside down, revolutionizing the role of women and transforming American taste, music and sexual mores. "Because of their numbers and their approach to life, Baby Boomers are setting standards for the rest of us," says Jane Fitzgibbon, director of research development for the Ogilvy & Mather ad agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Pains At 40 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...King, are gone, and their charisma and idealism sometimes seem to have died with them. When the Princeton class of '69 was asked ten years later whom they most admired, the leading choice was "Nobody." To be sure, the generation has produced a few able young politicians like Senator Gore, but he is still very much a junior Senator in a minority party, hardly a national figure. The presidential aspirants who most openly court the Baby Boom voters--Democrat Gary Hart and Republican Jack Kemp--are 49 and 50 years old, respectively. It would not be surprising if a Baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Pains At 40 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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