Word: nea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defend the NEA from Newt Gingrich's snipping shears, send a pair of your own to your senator or representative. The Caucus suggests that you take a pair of plastic scissors, glue them shut so that they won't cut, and write "No Cuts to the Arts" on them. The scissors can be sent through the U.S. Mail in a plastic baggie with a mailing label taped to the outside. Be sure to include a note stating your name and address, and that you are a registered voter...
...Republican revolutionaries in Congress have bravely pledged to put a stop to this. They promise, for example, to eliminate such federally subsidized beachheads of the academic left as the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. (The nea, you will remember, funded Piss Christ and the Mapplethorpe show. The neh, more recently, helped fund U.S. history standards that contained 19 references to Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism, and not one to Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison or the Wright brothers.) The endowments' grantees of progressive and independent vision live, of course, at the teat...
...pecs epics of the late '50s: they stem from "European indignation toward postwar conservatism and sexual repression, which translates onto the screen into big sweaty guys pushin' girls around." Or Mike, on the chorus line of prancing red devils in Santa Claus: "Oh, I suppose Hell got an NEA grant...
...first NEA budget passes Congress...
...thought about writing about the NEA because I'm on the council and we were having big fights at that time. I was on the anti-censorship side, the free speech side. There was one vote that was 15-1, and I was the one. There was a galloping prudery going around there at the time.. Yet many people were writing about that, and I'm glad I didn't try. I listed several other things and the only one I can remember is work, and they leapt for that...