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WOULD the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fund Mozart? Given the precedent of the Mapplethorpe-Helms conflagration, we cannot be sure. Would Tipper Gore push for labeling copies of Mozart canons...
...Abel Ferrara's rancid, megaviolent King of New York, in which a white man (Christopher Walken) leads a rainbow coalition of pushers. Whatever charm the Mafia boss still possesses is not contemporary but nostalgic. He is remembered or imagined as the dark padrone, courtly and caring, a big tipper to the little people...
...unwholesome intentions before receiving Government support. Alfred Sikes, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, leans on radio disk jockeys to clean up their acts. No less than the FBI sends a warning letter to a rap group. Susan Baker (wife of the Secretary of State) and Tipper Gore (wife of the Tennessee Senator), founders of the Parents' Music Resource Center, lobby for proscriptive labeling of certain albums. John Cardinal O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, inveighs against an Ozzy Osbourne song whose theme is suicide...
...weirdness of some rock music and its potential for harm. Though some music has exploited satanic and occult themes, the religious crusaders are more concerned about other problems. The Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss., is concentrating on vulgar, sadistic and violent sex songs. Tipper Gore's Parents' Music Resource Committee of Arlington, Va., especially decries records that foment contempt toward Jews, minorities and women...
...freedom of expression by committed people who censured without censoring, who expressed the kinds of belief the First Amendment guarantees. I do not, as a result, get whatever I approve of subsidized, either by Pepsi or the government. But neither does the law come in to silence Tipper Gore or Frank Zappa or even that filthy rag, the Dartmouth Review...