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...National Endowment for the Arts amounts to about 69 cents -- not dollars, just pocket change -- per U.S. citizen per year. Its share of total public spending is so small that in the short form of the federal budget, it is rounded off to zero. Of the nearly 90,000 NEA grants awarded over the past quarter-century, at most a few dozen have sparked any significant public controversy -- and the cumulative cost of all those was less than a cent a person, at a time when people often won't stoop to pick up a penny from the street...
Even for King, who seems to feel that taking a side on any issue is a definite path to getting canned, this was out of the ordinary. But later in the night, King had two guests, one pro-National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and one anti-NEA. He capped a two-hour-long debate between the two with this memorable remark: "Two able spokespersons for two vital causes...next, open phone America...
Anderson discussed art often in her performance, referring to the NEA controversy and the disappearance of the avant-garde. She jokingly speculated about a hypothetical Museum of Recent Art, bemoaning the difficulty in defining the word "modern" in a world where time is measured in split-second sound bytes and MTV video flashes...
...question-and-answer session that followed the presentation, Meese answered questions about debates surrounding "political correctness," the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Planned Parenthood...
Meese said the NEA should be abolished. "Government should get out of the business of deciding what's good art and bad art," he said...