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This time the boom is different. "A connection is really being made between the audience and the music," says Bill Ivey, director of the Country Music Foundation. "In the '70s and '80s, with the excesses of the sexual revolution and the excesses of an out-of-control speculative economy, everybody lived as though they could have it all today and all tomorrow. Now, with the collapse of the savings and loans, the specter of AIDS, and a weak economy in which anybody who has a job considers himself lucky, I think everybody realizes we are going to have to live...
...activists have been campaigning in tandem against pornography since the early '80s; city ordinances they devised for Minneapolis, Indianapolis and Bellingham, Wash., all similar to the Massachusetts bill, were rejected by courts or local officials. Their basic argument is that Supreme Court rulings on obscenity, meaning prurient material that offends community standards, provide no impediment to the increasing violence directed against women. Much of that violence, they argue, has been inspired by pornography, which their bill defines as "the graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words...
...basically had a veiled class war in the '80s. I don't accept the proposition that we cannot afford to make a down payment on fairness. There is a whole different argument for the children's tax credit. It is very much harder to raise a child for a middle-class family today than it was 40 years ago. Our country used to take the position that the way to build strong families was to enable the working people to have enough money to raise their families. We have totally abandoned that now in the tax changes of the '80s...
CLINTON: Well, the question is, How do you do it and under what circumstance? Entitlements are now more than 40% of the annual budget. So anybody would be right to say we can't let entitlements increase at the rate they did in the '80s and hope to get control of the budget...
There are whoops of support and moments of pin-drop silence among these voters who did not make it onto the '80s gravy train. Although Michigan voters have almost nothing in common with this walking Experiment in Living, the antinuclear former seminarian who has washed lepers with Mother Teresa in India and studied Zen with Buddhists in Japan is showing surprising appeal. As the campaign enters mid-stretch, rank-and-file union members, independents, rainbow-coalition minorities and educated, maverick Democrats are giving the former two-term California Governor a chance to build on his victories in Colorado and Nevada...