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After Tipper Gore heard her 12-year-old daughter Karenna listening to Prince's song " Darling Nikki ", she founded the Parents Music Resource Center.
* December – Tipper Gore forms the Parents Music Resource Center ( PMRC ) in response to the " filth " she hears on her daughter's Prince album Purple Rain.
The formation of the PMRC began in 1984 after Tipper Gore, along with her daughter Karenna, heard Prince's song " Darling Nikki ".
Born Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson in Washington, D. C., Tipper Gore is the daughter of John Kenneth " Jack " Aitcheson, Jr., a plumbing-supply entrepreneur, and his first wife, Margaret Ann ( née Carlson ) Odom ( who lost her first husband during World War II ).
In 1985, she co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center ( PMRC ) with Susan Baker, wife of then United States Secretary of the Treasury James Baker, because Tipper heard her then 11-year-old daughter playing " Darling Nikki " by Prince.
This furthered the public belief that the group she represented was a profit making enterprise attempting to extort the music industry under a non-profit tax exemption ; a controversy Tipper managed to deflect amongst her peers and the media.
In 2002, Tipper was urged by her supporters to run for the vacant U. S. Senate seat her husband once held in Tennessee, which was being vacated by Fred Thompson ; however, she declined.
" Tipper Gore, a founder of the Parents Music Resource Center ( PMRC ), who a year earlier denounced Madonna for the sexual lyrical content of her single " Dress You Up ", and had led a campaign against explicit content in music, commended Madonna for speaking candidly about such a serious subject and important social issue.
However, the sexually explicit album track " Darling Nikki " generated a major controversy that had lasting effects — when politician's wife Tipper Gore heard her 12-year-old daughter listening to the song and investigated the lyrics, her outrage led to the formation of the conservative lobby group Parents Music Resource Center.
The track and its accompanying video were banned in some regions due to its sexually risque lyrics and was one of several songs cited by Tipper Gore on her Filthy Fifteen list in her efforts to introduce mandatory warning labelling of explicit musical albums.
She was actively involved in her husband's vice presidential campaign in 2000, making campaign stops nationwide, including Chicago's Taste of Polonia over the Labor Day Weekend, where she appeared along with Tipper Gore and Dick Cheney.

Tipper and on
Biafra was on the show with Tipper Gore as part of a panel discussion on the issues of " controversial music lyrics " and censorship.
* 1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U. S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
The band was a prominent target in the mid-1980s of the Parents Music Resource Center ( PMRC ) led by Tipper Gore, who at the time was wife of then-Senator Al Gore ( D-TN ), an organization that pushed for warning labels on recorded music.
She repeatedly spoke out against violent and sexually explicit lyrics in popular music, including those of rapper Eminem ( Marshall Bruce Mathers III ), picking up on an issue that was originally made famous by former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper.
A longtime family friend of Al and Tipper Gore confirmed on June 1, 2010, that the Gores had sent out an e-mail to family friends announcing that they had made a mutual decision to separate.
Tipper was introduced on October 15, 2008.
In 1641 Lyons Castle was taken and sacked on the orders of the new LJs William Parsons and John Borlase and two castles belonging to Edward Tipper of Tipperstown burned
They took on the right-wing theocracy directly, with songs like " Freedom of Expression " that skewered the censorial nature of the Parents Music Resource Center ( PMRC ), founded by Al Gore's wife Tipper.
" Operation " is an early example of the then-experimental technique of cutting together parts of different backing tracks to create a single track-it opens with a different dub of " Give Me Power ", which then segues into a dub of The Ethiopians " Love and Respect ", then a dub of Junior Byles " Fever ", ending with the bass melodica cut to " Give Me Power ", released in its own right on 45 as " Tipper Special ".
* Tipper Gore – voice excerpts on " Porn Wars "

Tipper and music
became a very prominent target of the Parents Music Resource Center, an organization led by Tipper Gore and dedicated to opposing music with lyrics deemed violent or overtly sexual in content.
She is sometimes referred to as Tipper Gore's nemesis in the 1980s battle over music censorship.
The cartoon features animation by Lovy and Frank Tipper, a story by Ben Hardaway and Lowell Elliott, and music by Frank Marsales.

Tipper and for
Ice-T was personally accused by Tipper Gore with support from the PMRC for the increasing rates of violence against police officers in Los Angeles in the late 1980s.
Among the notable journalists who have worked for The Tennessean are Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper, Pulitzer Prize winning author David Halberstam, and cartoonist Anthony Wright.
In an article for the Washington Post, Tipper Gore condemned Ice-T for songs like " Cop Killer ," writing that " Cultural economics were a poor excuse for the South's continuation of slavery.
At the July 1992 annual shareholders ' meeting for Time-Warner, actor Charlton Heston, who was a minor Time-Warner shareholder, was given the opportunity to address the crowd, and, in a well-publicized speech, recited lyrics from both " Cop Killer " and another song from Body Count, " KKK Bitch "-which namechecked Tipper Gore herself-in an attempt to embarrass company executives into dropping the album.

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Hadley's clients included former Vice President Albert Gore and Tipper Gore, Babe Paley and William S. Paley, Oscar de la Renta and Annette de la Renta, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
The committee was founded by four women: Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore ; Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker ; Pam Howar, wife of Washington realtor Raymond Howar ; and Sally Nevius, wife of former Washington City Council Chairman John Nevius.
* Tipper: this has been a prebend since at least 1227.
Prebendary of Tipper at September 2011 is J. D. M.
PMRC co-founder Tipper Gore stated the song was about oral sex at gunpoint.
Mary Elizabeth " Tipper " Gore ( née Aitcheson ; born August 19, 1948 ) is an author, photographer, former second lady of the United States, and the estranged wife of Al Gore.
Her nickname, Tipper, derives from the lullaby " Tippy, Tippy, Tin ", originally sung in the 1940 Our Gang short " All About Hash " by child actress Janet Burston.
Although she came to the prom with one of his classmates, Gore and Tipper began to date immediately afterwards.

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A very great Pope, this one, the old woman explained, her black eyes sparkling.
" Nitetis naturally, betrayed Amasis and upon being greeted by the Persian king explained Amasis's trickery and her true origins.
As Freda Easton explained in her study of Waldorf schools, " Whether one accepts anthroposophy as a science depends upon whether one accepts Steiner's interpretation of a science that extends the consciousness and capacity of human beings to experience their inner spiritual world.
Her medism in 491 is to be explained by her commercial relations with the Persian Empire.
His doctor explained to her that Chiang had sex with her before completing his treatment for the disease.
But the result was not pre-planned, as Beaux ’ s sister later explained, " Please make no mystery about itit was only an idea to put the black kitten on her cousin's shoulder.
While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.
Neale and Rowse also idealised the Queen personally: she always did everything right ; her more unpleasant traits were ignored or explained as signs of stress.
She then explained everything to him including that she had given her life to Christ.
In Why I Became an IWW, Keller explained that her motivation for activism came in part from her concern about blindness and other disabilities:
In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.
When the Professor hides to prepare for the Z ' Nox, he reopens Jean's telepathic abiliites, which was initially explained by writers as Xavier ' sharing ' some of his telepathy with her.
She later explained that one of the reasons for accepting the role was that it gave her the opportunity to sing.
She explained that she had been feeling low in the six months before her admission.
In her remarks, Smith explained that in 1967 when she moved to New York City ( Brooklyn ), she would never have been accepted into Pratt, but most of her friends ( including Mapplethorpe ) were students at Pratt and she spent countless hours on the Pratt campus.
He explained that he wanted ten years to pass between The Bride's last conflict, in order to give her and her daughter a period of peace.
My Truth was an autobiographical release for Robyn and included the tracks " Universal Woman " and " Giving You Back ," which explained her secret abortion.
" The spelling discrepancy of the added ' y ' was later explained as a deus ex machina on the part of " The White " ( a force of good throughout King's Tower series ) to bring the total number of letters in her name to nineteen, a number prominent in King's series.
Unicorns also appear several times in the dream sequences of the director's cut, and as it is explained in the film ; Rachel's memories are known by her creators, e. g. the memory Rachel has of the spiders ( as explained to her by Deckard in the movie ).

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