Word: landesman
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...Arts with a few dozen artists. Those who saw the meeting as a step toward a full Obama-administration takeover of an organization meant to uphold artistic integrity, a veritable propaganda machine for the president, cried “fascism.” In a statement, NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman responded, claiming that the “call was not a means to promote any legislative agenda and any suggestions to that end are simply false,” further ensuring that the call was “completely unrelated to NEA’s grant making, which is highly...
Eventually the stimulus package included an additional $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). President Obama has also proposed increasing the NEA budget next year by $6 million, to $161.3 million. And in May he nominated a firecracker, the Broadway producer Rocco Landesman, to be the NEA's next chairman. But at the same time, arts groups are worried about what they see as a serious threat to their donor base: the White House proposal to reduce as much as 20% the tax deduction that higher-income families can take for charitable contributions...
...tolerance and freedom for newcomers, and detractors claim that Meadows' focus on an unpopular war - the film is inter-spliced with Falklands' footage - together with anti-immigrant racism lends undue emphasis to the seamier side of the country's recent past. A Sunday Times review by critic Cosmo Landesman dismissed the film's portrayal of 1980s (predominantly) white-working class as "unconvincing," railing against a "fatuous" attempt to link the war in the Falklands with the one that Combo wants to fight back in England...
Life doesn’t get any better once the victims reach the ‘Promised Land.’ Peter Landesman, author of the New York Times magazine article “The Girls Next Door,” writes: “If anything, the women I talked to said that the sex in the US is even rougher than what the girls face on Calle Santo Tomas...
...local policemen are also not immune to the myths and misconceptions about sex slavery. According to Laura Lederer, a senior State Department official, “We’re not finding victims in the United States because we’re not looking for them.” Landesman adds that American police departments seem to assume that these women choose to sell their bodies, and are not only prostitutes but also undocumented foreign nationals trespassing on American soil...