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...said that only the narrow-minded are intolerant or opprobrious. Most of those who limited the distribution of Martin Scorsese's movie The Last Temptation of Christ had not even seen the movie. So do we guarantee freedom of speech only for the broad-minded or the better educated? Can one speak only after studying whatever one has reason, from one's beliefs, to denounce? Then most of us would be doing a great deal less speaking than we do. If one has never seen any snuff movies, is that a bar to criticizing them...
...those verging on kiddie porn -- if the show had gone on. But she had in mind, as well, the hope of future grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is under criticism for the Mapplethorpe show and for another show that contained Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, the photograph of a crucifix in what the title says is urine. Owr-Chall is said to be yielding to censorship, when she is clearly yielding to political and financial pressure, as Pepsi yielded to commercial pressure over the Madonna...
...leader Lech Walesa. Women from the neighborhood had prepared an avalanche of Polish dishes, ranging from smoked eel to schnitzel. Bush looked at the groaning board and commented, "My mother taught me to eat what's before you. In this house I would weigh 300 lbs." Framed pictures of Christ were in almost every room; crucifixes hung over most of the doors. By Polish standards the house was a mansion; Walesa noted that his work with Solidarity had some benefits...
Down the road from the youth center is the tiny Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which evangelist Foreman helped found nine years ago. With the fighter on the trumpet and cymbals, Sunday services are rarely dull. His sermons sometimes seem directed at himself. "Once you fall, you ain't comin back," he advised the flock recently. "Make noise in a strange fashion, or God may not notice...
...they oversee the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, which partly subsidized the Mapplethorpe show with a $30,000 grant. The NEA was already enmeshed in controversy over an earlier grant of $15,000 to photographer Andres Serrano, among whose works is a picture titled Piss Christ, depicting a crucifix submerged in the artist's urine. Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in March, produced equally provocative work: his oeuvre includes pictures of nude children in erotic poses, a man urinating into another's mouth, and other violent and homosexually explicit poses. When some of the work was exhibited...