Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DION: YO FRANKIE! (Arista). The Wanderer is his own bad self, back with a fine album full of romantic street toughness and hard-edged nostalgia. This Rock-' n'-Roll Hall of Famer has still got one of the greatest voices that ever wopped...
...Rock music has become a dominant -- and potentially destructive -- part of teenage culture. Lyrics, album covers and music videos, particularly in the rock genre called heavy metal, romanticize bondage, sexual assaults and murder. The song Girls L.G.B.N.A.F. by Ice-T contains the words "Girls, let's get butt naked and f." Or consider these lyrics from Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls, an album that reached No. 2 on the Billboard chart and has sold more than 2 million copies...
...which has sold more than 6 million copies. The jacket cover, featuring a robot looming over a woman in torn clothing, was so repellent that some record stores refused to carry the album. Says Tipper Gore, co-founder of the Parents' Music Resource Center and a longtime critic of rock lyrics: "Music companies are cultural strip miners, profiting from the sex and violence and ignoring the scars...
...Phillips and his Kirkland H-42 buddies together, and they're easy to please. A game of rock, paper, scissors will keep them entertained...
...Serafim-Rock Professor of Business Administration Howard H. Stevenson, a leading scholar of entrepreneurship, left the B-School in 1977, retiring while under consideration for tenure. But McArthur took the initiative to solicit funding for a new endowed chair and then offered Stevenson the position...