Word: granted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...script. Using some of the same actors, he filmed She's Gotta Have It in a rented restaurant attic over twelve days, editing in his studio apartment. The 1986 picture, produced on a shoestring budget of about $175,000, raised mostly from friends and family, plus an $18,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, made about $8 million at the box office and catapulted Lee out of obscurity and into the spotlight...
...union is also looking for pension increases and education and longevity payments, which would grant bonuses to officers based on the educational degrees they have earned and the time they have served on the force, Mederos said...
...Association of Southeast Asian Nations -- Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Brunei -- pressed for the mandatory return of boat people to Viet Nam. The appeal was blocked, for differing reasons, by Viet Nam and the U.S., but the conference did ratify a new policy of refusing to grant automatic refugee status to fresh arrivals. In Hong Kong alone, as a consequence, some 33,000 boat people will be invited to return to Viet Nam; if they fail to go voluntarily, they will almost certainly be forced to head home...
...persons" Orr-Cahall was talking about are mostly on Capitol Hill, and 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...
...protest quickly spread across the political spectrum. On May 18, 36 Senators signed a letter asking for changes in the NEA's grant-making procedures so that "shocking, abhorrent and completely undeserving" art would not get money. At the prompting of Texas Congressman Dick Armey, 107 members of the House sent a similar letter to the endowment...