Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name of freedom, be approved by citizens in all their dealings with one another. As Zappa says, "Masturbation is not illegal. If it is not illegal to do it, why should it be illegal to sing about it?" He thinks this proves that Gore, who is not trying to make raunch in rock illegal, cannot even ask distributors to label it. Anything goes, as long as it's legal. The odd consequence of this argument would be a drastic narrowing of the freedom of speech. One could not call into question anything that was not against the law -- including...
...rocker's artistic expression. Ideas (carefully disguised) lurk somewhere in the lyrics. All the more reason to keep criticism of them free. If ideas are too important to suppress, they are also too important to ignore. The whole point of free speech is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them...
...that matter, who has been more insistent that parents should "interfere" in what their children are doing, Tipper Gore or Jesse Jackson? All through the 1970s, Jackson was traveling the high schools, telling parents to turn off TVs, make the kids finish their homework, check with teachers on their performance, get to know what the children are doing. This kind of "interference" used to be called education...
...speed of a Nolan Ryan fastball. And why not? The Republican incumbent is retiring, and George W. has inherited his father's genes for ambition and seizing opportunities. He stumped Texas extensively for his father last year, delivering standard conservative scripts with energy if not eloquence. His name would make fund raising easy. No single rival for the G.O.P. nomination dominates the field...
...that the Democratic objections are hypocritical. "Every four years the out party says the ambassadors aren't qualified," comments a Bush foreign policy aide. During confirmation hearings last week on the nomination of Joseph Gildenhorn as Ambassador to Switzerland, Minnesota Republican Rudy Boschwitz huffed that being rich enough to make hefty political contributions should not disqualify a candidate but should be regarded as "a sign of considerable achievement." By that standard, Gildenhorn is well suited for an embassy job. Though the American Academy of Diplomacy, a group of former diplomats, has rated him unqualified, the Washington real estate developer...