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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...
...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...
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...