Word: paint
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VEILED ATTEMPTS to paint Japan as an enemy rather than as a worthy economic competitor might serve to unite and even temporarily spur our country out of its economic malaise. But whether it succeeds or not, such political and economic deception has terrible consequences for Japanese Americans and other minority groups...
Painterly Reproductions: The Difficult Art of Expressing Paint in the Monochrome Print--Through April 12. Fogg Art Museum...
...life. We hear the whining voices of her narrow-minded family but Georgia does not--the colors of her bucolic youth on a Wisconsin farm call to her. Later, we see O'Keefe in a studio, up against a condescending and arrogant artist (Howie Axelrod) who wants to paint her--but she will not be his model. From the start, Georgia is a spirit set apart...
...last week in Georgia. "The Bush Administration," it says, "has invested our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art too shocking to show." Second, Bush forthrightly supported Frohnmayer in March 1990: ". . . the Federal Government," said the President, "((shouldn't get)) into telling every artist what he or she can paint." Bush stood up -- and standing up is everything. Ronald Reagan understood that principle of leadership (and political survival) better than anyone else. The polls routinely described an electorate disaffected from a wide range of Reagan's policies. But his support held because he was seen to have the courage...
Another test is due shortly. In a few weeks the Senate will affirm the House's decision to revoke the Federal Government's ban on fetal-tissue research. Unlike the freedom to paint what one chooses, this issue has severe consequences for millions of Americans afflicted with diseases like Parkinson's and juvenile diabetes. Because the tissue required to aid these sufferers comes from aborted fetuses, the Bush Administration has prevented federal support of the necessary research. For the conservatives who control U.S. health policy, the legal status of abortion is immaterial. "Yes, abortion is still legal," acknowledges James Mason...