Word: nea
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...reason is threefold. First, a plethora of Washington conservatives hope for distraction issues -- anything that will take voters' minds off the domestic economy -- and see in the campaign for moral restrictions on the NEA a rich source of cheap shots against "liberal" culture...
Second, the NEA has a new acting director, Anne-Imelda Radice, 44, an arts administrator put in by Bush to replace John Frohnmayer, who was fired to appease Pat Buchanan's distorted and ranting attacks on the NEA during the early primaries. Radice told a House subcommittee on appropriations that "if we find a proposal that does not have the widest audience . . . we just can't afford to fund that." At a May conference at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art she declared that, despite the acrid controversy over NEA policy in the arts community, "blood is thicker...
Barnum called himself "Prince of Humbugs," but today the circus has become respectable. The troupers study theater, ballet, and circus arts. Many have college degrees. I half expect to find in the program a list of corporate contributions and NEA matching funds, and, in fact, I do. The Big Apple is a not-for-profit organization; a donation of $2500 gains admission to the Ringmaster's Circle. And although The Big Apple is officially non-profit, the concession stand rakes it in. A cotton candy costs four dollars, an 11-oz bottle of water costs $2.50 (more than a soda...
...Republican presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan used a PBS show as Exhibit A in his attacks on President Bush for condoning "pornographic and blasphemous art" funded by the NEA. A Buchanan TV ad featured scenes from Tongues Untied, a documentary about the gay black life-style that ran on 114 PBS stations last July...
Julia A. Richardson, acting director of the civil rights division of the NEA, said yesterday that NEA protocol precluded her discussing specific complaints with the press...