Word: nea
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...complaint registered last week with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Robert S. Menchel, who is hearing-impaired, said the ART discriminates because it does not regularly present interpreted performances for members of the deaf community...
According to Menchel, who is a member of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, the ART is legally obligated to provide the hearing disabled with access to performances since it receives NEA funding...
...measure of how much arts leaders misjudged the effectiveness of such tactics that after two years of denouncing NEA chairman John Frohnmayer as a sellout for his attempts to placate the right wing, last week they were mourning his forced resignation and envisioning his heir as sure to be worse. Says Jack O'Brien, artistic director of San Diego's Old Globe Theater: "If President Bush got a message in New Hampshire, we did too." A chilling sign for arts leaders is that some liberals now join in doubting whether government should finance ideas. It was the talk of Washington...
CULTURE Weakened by its own bungling, the NEA is an easy target...
...Arts, had to go. Bush knew what he was getting when he selected Frohnmayer in 1989, and the President's friends heralded the appointment as proof that Bush's heart was in the right place. But then, on Feb. 20, Pat Buchanan signaled his intent to trash the NEA for "subsidizing filthy and blasphemous art," and Frohnmayer was gone the next day. "We had to wipe away at least one of Pat's points in advance," concedes a Bush aide. "Dumping John was craven, but it was just politics...