Word: tippers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stars came out in constellations because they recognized in Clinton one of their own. Not just that he plays the saxophone, a little. Or that Hillary is a smart, tough lawyer, like most Hollywood moguls. Or that Tipper Gore is a photojournalist with a motherly interest in pop music. Or that Chelsea was working her video recorder at the Inaugural. What matters is that Clinton is a prime communicator, a beacon of middle-class charisma, a lover of being loved, a believer in the importance -- perhaps the primacy -- of image, metaphor, style. And an ace manipulator of media, selling...
...civilians lined up for the big parade, where the Lesbian & Gay Bands of America played and Girl Scouts passed out American flags and AIDS ribbons. A Clinton spotting could cue an impromptu chant: "Chel-sea! Chel-sea!" at the hot-ticket MTV Ball. Though the rockers booed Tipper Gore for her lyric-sanitation campaign, they gave a hand to Clinton's rowdy half-brother Roger. And so did the music industry. Atlantic Records snagged him to preserve forever his rendition of Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come. Let's sing along: "Then I go to my brother...
...just have talent," said Esquire editor David Hirshey. "He also has to be the President's brother." The man who signed him for Atlantic Records is Danny Goldberg, who is better known in Hollywood as a Democratic activist -- he organized the music industry's resistance to Tipper Gore's system of rating records -- than as Bonnie Raitt's co-manager...
...Tipper, perhaps, Larry Welk's last playlist...
...Gore has been sporting a tie designed by Grateful Dead founder Jerry Garcia. Tipper's a certified Deadhead. Clinton jogs in a Dead T shirt. Bush's worst nightmare: those drapes they're fitting are tie-dyed...