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Conservative columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak predict that Finley, whose work has been supported in the past by three NEA grants ($22,000 in total awards), will be the next target of outrage -- and opportunity -- for enemies of the endowment's funding. Finley, the columnists warned, could become "the Mapplethorpe case of 1990" if her latest request for support is approved. Last week that suggestion of scandal was enough to shake the National Council on the Arts, the beleaguered body that oversees grants recommended by NEA panels. The council voted to postpone until August its decision on all grant...
...said the amendment was merely designed toforce the NEA to be "more responsible in how itdistributes grants...
Loeb Drama Center Director Robert S. Brustein,a vocal critic of the Helms ammendment, said thatwhen the NEA was created, Congress acknowledgedits ignorance of the arts and delegated theresponsibility of awarding grants to the NEA andits panelists...
...Both the NEA's authorization and the Helmsamendment will come up for review in September,said Virginia Falck, public affairs specialist forthe NEA. Opponents of the amendment said Congressmay remove the Helms amendment from NEA'sauthorization, or it may eliminate NEA altogether...
...There's been enough noise and enough absurditygenerated that it will be removed," Brustein said."But there is also sufficent anger from theAmerican people about the free spirited artistthat I can see the NEA watered-down ordismantled...