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...again married to the Mob? It's not that the genre is especially popular these days. (The Untouchables was the only gangster blockbuster of the '80s.) Nor is it that the Italian underworld taps a nerve in today's body politic. Drug lords, often black or Hispanic, are the civic scourge of the moment, and they get their movie due only in Abel Ferrara's rancid, megaviolent King of New York, in which a white man (Christopher Walken) leads a rainbow coalition of pushers. Whatever charm the Mafia boss still possesses is not contemporary but nostalgic. He is remembered...
Sensible citizens may be able to laugh off the idea of depravity emanating from their civic orchestra, ballet or Shakespeare theater. But in a battle conducted chiefly in the media, all it takes is a couple of controversial recipients to overshadow thousands of uncontested ones. And in the overheated climate of current debate, attempts to weed out controversial recipients can poison relations between the NEA and its beneficiaries. Last week the endowment reaffirmed a decision to strip grants from four performance artists, all of whom deal with sexual issues, after they had been chosen by fellow creators. NEA Chairman John...
...owners of the potentially valuable land were members of an emerging power elite in Denver, who proceeded to orchestrate formidable civic support for the airport project. The main boosters: developer Bill Walters, a colleague of Neil Bush's and then president of the Denver Chamber of Commerce; Michael Wise, then chairman of Silverado; and Larry Mizel, chairman of M.D.C...
Although the ten-day prediction was a bit optimistic, Ash was in the ballpark. He gives a day-by-day account of the formation of the opposition Civic Forum, the mass demonstrations in the streets of Prague, and the rapid ascension of playwright Vaclav Havel from dissident to president...
...Civic Forum, the coalition opposition group, managed the nowdubbed Velvet Revolution from, of all places, a theatre called the "Magic Lantern." Ash brilliantly juxtaposes the gravity of the political situation with the ironic humor of Havel and his band of writers, artists, economists and politicians. He tells of how his press credentials bore Havel's personal stamp--"a beaming pussy cat with the word 'Smile' across his chest!" A second credential bears a stamp with a beaming green frog and the words tres bien...