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...house. In 1985 she set out on a campaign against sex, drugs and violence in rock lyrics that cowed the record industry into putting parental- advisory stickers on the most raw-edged albums. Two years later, she published Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society, a how-to manual for parents who want to fight poptrash. When her husband launched his unsuccessful 1988 White House bid, there was speculation that Tipper's crusade would cost him the support of MTVoters. Four years later, with family values finding their way into every Republican sound bite, she looks not so much...
...INSTANT INFORMATION, THE HARD facts on everything from coping with troubled toddlers to touring Nepal are just a video-club membership away. But in Orange County, Calif., the how-to tape has gone beyond providing a sort of microwave education for the perpetually preoccupied. Last week former nurse Linda Dunlap ran into both praise and scorn for a video she produced to teach homeless men and women how to scavenge the trash for contaminant-free food. Staged in a talk-show format, the tape is five parts useless banter and one part helpful instruction. Warnings include avoiding discarded dairy products...
Conceptually, a how-to video for the homeless smacks of a Saturday Night Live sketch gone horribly tasteless. Only those fortunate enough to wander into a vcr-equipped shelter will ever view the tape. Moreover, advocates for the homeless argue that the video signals a dangerous complacency in tackling the issues of hunger and poverty. But to her critics Dunlap has one reply: "Get real!" The video, she insists, acknowledges a serious public health issue and aims to save lives...
...Tory Peterson's Field Guide to Tropical Forests Coloring Book should be fun, right? Well, a rather lengthy introduction is the first clue that there's something sinister going on here. Sure enough, a sub-heading to the introduction reads, "How to Use This Book." When a coloring book needs how-to instructions, times are truly bleak...
Even some Harvard officials said they would enjoy thumbing through the cheating how-to guide...