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- <text id=90TT1571>
- <title>
- June 18, 1990: American Notes:New Jersey
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 18, 1990 Child Warriors
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 23
- American Notes
- NEW JERSEY
- Sync Along With Milli
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Should the truth-in-packaging principle that protects
- consumers in stores apply to rock concerts too? New Jersey
- assemblymen Neil Cohen and Joseph Mecca think so. They have
- introduced a bill that would require promoters to inform fans
- when an artist gyrates to canned music instead of real singing.
- Lip syncing has become routine at concerts by such big names
- as Milli Vanilli, New Kids on the Block and Janet Jackson.
- </p>
- <p> Promoters deny any intent to deceive and argue that the
- canned music cuts costs on concerts. It also lets fans see
- "close to what they see on MTV," says Carl Freed, executive
- director of the North American Concert Promoters Association,
- plus "the added sparkle of live spontaneity." Oh, get real.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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