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However familiar such conflicts may seem to millions of working couples, they rarely used to crop up in politics. This year is different. Elizabeth Dole, Hattie Babbitt, Jeanne Simon and Elise du Pont are all lawyers. Jill Biden and Kitty Dukakis both teach. Tipper Gore is a published author. Dole, whom some see as a future presidential contender in her own right, has the most vexing dilemma of all. "I think there is a sense that her choice will send a signal," says Republican Pollster Linda Duvall. "Until now, we've never seen a situation where the wife is just...
...antipornography movement has some close cousins. One prominent grass- roots movement is the Parents Music Resource Center, led by Tipper Gore, the wife of Democratic Senator Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee. The P.M.R.C., through well-publicized hearings and letter-writing campaigns, has succeeded in persuading record companies voluntarily to identify recordings with explicit lyrics. Says Gore: "This is where the action is these days. I think it's very exciting what's happening all over the country. People in the communities are reawakening and reaffirming their commitment to values...
...Tipper Gore can do something you can't. She can quote the loopy lyrics of a rather recherche song by W.A.S.P.: "I got pictures of naked ladies lying on my bed/ I whiff the smell of a sweet convulsion/ Thoughts are sweating inside my head/ . . . I start to howl in heat/ I . . ." and this next word presents a problem. How to handle propriety and make her point at the same time? Spelling is the answer. She pronounces each of the four letters, then finishes, ". . . like a beast...
...people outside a core of heavy-metal diehards will know that Gore gets the lyrics a little askew. Not many others may even have heard of W.A.S.P. Tipper Gore, wife of Senator Albert Gore Jr., and some other well-connected women in Washington are changing all that. They have banded together as Parents Music Resource Center (P.M.R.C.) and, with the National Parent-Teacher Association, want everyone to know that rock-'n'-roll music has gone too far. "The music industry is cashing in on shock value, and parents have said, 'That's it--no further,' " says Ann Kahn, president...
...showed up in tight jeans and a cut-off T shirt and fought past his nervousness to tell everyone that the band's song Under the Blade, allegedly a glorification of S-M, was in fact about fear of surgery. "The only sado-masochism present," he insisted, "was in Tipper Gore's mind...