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<text id=90TT1310>
<title>
May 21, 1990: Business Notes:Entertainment
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 69
Business Notes
ENTERTAINMENT
Warning: Rock Music Ahead
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<body>
<p> A bold black-and-white label will begin appearing by July
on many musical recordings sold in the U.S. Its message:
PARENTAL ADVISORY--EXPLICIT LYRICS. Last week the recording
industry unveiled the uniform marking in an attempt to fend off
bills in five state legislatures that would require labels on
recordings that contain explicit lyrics dealing with sex,
violence, suicide, drug use, bigotry and satanism. Under the
industry's program, the decision to put the standardized label
on a new release would be made by the record company and the
artists rather than by government officials.
</p>
<p> The Parents' Music Resource Center, which has crusaded
against explicit lyrics, applauded the move. Local politicians
were less pleased. "This plan doesn't even touch most of the
music we're talking about," says Missouri legislator Jean
Dixon. She points out that the trade group promoting the
voluntary label, the Recording Industry Association of America,
does not represent many of the companies that produce the most
offensive albums.
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</body>
</article>
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