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Senator Jesse Helms, that noted paleo-conservative, has taken up the cudgels against the most distinguished and useful vehicle of patronage in American cultural life, the National Endowment for the Arts. Neoconservatives want to keep the NEA because they would like to run it. Paleos like Helms don't greatly...
As soon as the dewlaps of Senator Helms' patriarchal wrath started shaking at its door, the Corcoran caved in and canceled Mapplethorpe's show. Unappeased, the ayatullah of North Carolina proposed a measure that would forbid the NEA to give money to "promote, disseminate or produce" anything "obscene or indecent...
Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini and Republicans Jesse Helms, Alfonse D'Amato and Pete Wilson urged George Bush and Baker to name Von Raab drug czar or at least reward him with an ambassadorship. They were rebuffed. But Von Raab's highly public parting shots may soon give Bush reason to...
"Congress used a sledgehammer when it should have used a scalpel," explained Columbia University Law Professor Vincent Blasi. "It's difficult enough to define obscenity, but indecency is entirely in the eye of the beholder." Conservative Republican Senator Jesse Helms called the maintenance of the ban on obscene messages a...
That did not satisfy some critics. In Congress the unlikely alliance of New York Representative Stephen Solarz, a highly liberal Democrat, and North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, the curmudgeon of the Republican right, is pushing a bill that would compel the Administration, if the situation worsens, to stop all transfers...