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When Hillary Clinton said she wasn't one of those women who stay home and bake cookies, she could have been talking about Tipper Gore. Al and Tipper met at his senior prom. They dated each other exclusively while he was at Harvard and she got her psychology degree from Boston University. Later she earned a master's degree. But since her husband was first elected to Congress in 1976, Tipper -- a nickname her mother gave her as an infant from a favorite lullaby -- has spent most of her time rearing the couple's four children in Arlington...
Even so, maybe while the cookies were cooling, Tipper has managed to get out of the 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...
...Tipper Gore also has the advantage of knowing that family values are sometimes arrived at the hard way. Friends say that in the late 1980s the Gore marriage went through a rough patch, strained first by the implacable career focus of a man who has eyed the White House for years, then by the shock of an automobile accident that nearly killed their only...
...Marrow -- who goes by his high school nickname of Ice-T -- has set off critics who accuse him of glorifying crime, homophobia, sexism and violence. His profanity-laced descriptions of gang life in a Los Angeles ghetto fostered a genre of hard-core black music known as "gangster rap." Tipper Gore of the Parents' Music Resource Center singled out Ice-T for the "vileness of his message...
...takes anchovies on his pizza. Sugar and milk in his coffee. He describes himself as quite a good tipper in restaurants--perhaps because he is sensitive to his own working-call background...