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...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...
Finley is a multimedia artist best known as one of 1990s "NEA Five," the five performance artists whose work was deemed so controversial that the National Endowment for the Arts rescinded their funding. With this fluffy little book, as indeed with all her projects, she seems determined to knock over as many sacred cows as she can lay her hands on--and have a jolly good time, to boot! Good for her. But Enough is Enough, a slim volume of jocular ripostes interspersed with Finley's childlike line drawings, is the most standard and facile anti-establishment fare imaginable...
...Brien, artistic director for San Diego's Old Globe Theater: "She has a realistic view of what we are up against, she is an eloquent advocate, she is a classy woman -- exactly what Capitol Hill should see." Says Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates, a congressional co-creator of the nea who chairs the subcommittee overseeing it: "She is well known, generally admired for her talents, bright and charming...