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...size, the agency has over the past few years probably consumed more debate time than any other function of government. Ronald Reagan entered office suggesting that government had no business financing or endorsing cultural activity. A dozen years later, the Republicans left the White House having turned the NEA from a sacred cow into a matador's bull -- and having diverted a third of its nominal allocation to potential pork barrel by state arts councils. Even that wasn't enough for Jesse Helms and Patrick Buchanan, who sought to abolish the NEA for purportedly funding obscenity and irreligious bigotry, based...
...austere drama but offstage is fun loving and approachable. She is living proof of the dividends that grants can pay. She vaulted into prominence playing the white girlfriend of black boxer Jack Johnson in The Great White Hope. It opened in 1967 in a Washington production financed by the NEA and went on to Broadway and the movies. Alexander has often worked at NEA-funded institutions since then, as has her husband, director Edwin Sherin...
...partnership. But as veteran Clintonologists have suggested, the real Clinton campaign hasn't ended; it's just begun. For in a key respect, the conservatives are right. There are profound differences of values among the American people, differences that can never quite be reconciled. The donnybrook over the NEA-funded Robert Mapplethorpe photo exhibition was an immense distraction from the affairs of state, but it put plenty of money into Senator Jesse Helms' campaign coffers. Subjects on which many Americans have mixed feelings -- including issues of sexual and reproductive morality -- can easily be inflamed by politicians intent on polarizing...
Stein, who has sat on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) says she has always been very pleased with the high calibre of work submitted to the NEA by Boston filmmakers...
Right-wing talk of moral values spells trouble for the NEA...