Word: tipper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Over the years, Al and Tipper Gore have had more than their share of tense moments with the entertainment industry. The uneasy relationship started with Tipper's crusade in the 1980s against smutty and violent rock lyrics. It has continued through Al's vice presidency, during which he played a key role in negotiating a voluntary TV-ratings system, a law requiring that new televisions be equipped with a V chip to help parents block out offensive programs, and a deal in which broadcasters agreed to provide three hours of educational children's television a week. In a televised forum...
...moments when Gore the Politician seemed to be apologizing to the industry for what Gore the Crusader had done. Those moments, no surprise, have coincided with the times that Gore is gearing up for the grubby, expensive proposition of running for president. Shortly before his 1988 race, Al and Tipper suggested during an off-the-record lunch with leading entertainment figures that her campaign against the record industry had got out of hand, particularly when it reached hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, where Gore was a member. "I was not in favor of the hearing," Gore said, according...
...beaked Tipper flapped out of the White House in a huff the other day and may not come back until fall. To heck with him. There was a robin that built a nest in a fig tree on the North Portico, raised a brood of four, flew off to the East Porch and did it all over again in a juniper. She loves the place and will return next year, or so believes Fred Evenden, Executive Director of the Wildlife Society, who has been watching the Robin all this summer...
Worsen they did. The ripples of Elizabeth Ray's profitable true-confessions caper continued to spread. The FBI, TIME discovered last week, had landed a current version of Watergate's Deep Throat. This anonymous source, who might be tagged Jack the Tipper, has taken to calling the FBI three to four times a day. In tones of outrage, Jack has demonstrated pinpoint knowledge about some of Capitol Hill's darker corners. Investigators believe that he may be a member of Congress or a legislative aide. "Whoever he is," says one official involved in the inquiry...
...characteristic remark. The egomaniac was, in fact, a modest man. The vain Lothario had been married almost 50 years to the same woman. The skinflint was a great tipper...