Word: home
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chris Lyden: You spent most of 14 years looking for the inner man and there were many moments in that time apparently when you decided there wasn't anybody at home, there wasn't anybody there and you'd never get your hands around it. What'd you decide...
...like "Piss Christ" or Robert Mapplethorpe all over again? The same issues boiled over then, and the same issues continue to define America's bitter culture war today. While it may be tempting, therefore, for those of us who support the mayor to just render due kudos and go home, perhaps we should take advantage of this fresh opportunity to explain why he was right--maybe even to propose a just accommodation of publicly funded speech and decency, artistic freedom and religious values...
Athough experiment might be of use. Imagine a canvas covered with swastikas. The artist insists the symbols are not meant as an attack on the Jews, but rather as the celebration of a Nazi industrial policy that achieved full employment while permitting women to stay home. Would we still not have every right to oppose the use of public funding in displaying such work? I believe we would...
...history, so essential to a peoples self-definition, and so central to the way they conceive of themselves and relate to the Universe, that public funding of what might legitimately be perceived as their desecration is downright wrong. Neither is this tantamount to censorship--desecrate at will in your home, display to your hearts content in private galleries. But don't demand that others pay for your vision...
...wooed by a combination of Nancy Reagan and Cabernet leftover from the Nixon administration, Edmund Morris agreed to become Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer. What Morris found, or, rather, didn't find, left him in such a state of despair that he went underground for years--quitting drink, staying home weekends and leaving his talents as a virtuoso pianist untapped. Morris spent his time reading the president's private diaries, watching old films and tracking down everyone from Reagan's high school flames to Colin Powell, only to discover that the President had a total lack of interest in other...