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...Hill, and they oversee the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, which partly subsidized the Mapplethorpe show with a $30,000 grant. The NEA was already enmeshed in controversy over an earlier grant of $15,000 to photographer Andres Serrano, among whose works is a picture titled Piss Christ, depicting a crucifix submerged in the artist's urine. Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in March, produced equally provocative work: his oeuvre includes pictures of nude children in erotic poses, a man urinating into another's mouth, and other violent and homosexually explicit poses. When some of the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Art Is It, Anyway? | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

Part of that is the legacy of the Reagan presidency, Reese says. Reagan "ran as a head of state, not a head of government and people liked that, and Bush is doing the same things. Which was why you had the Teflon presidency--you don't piss on the Queen, as people...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: An Insider Watches on the Sidelines | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...some colleges, such as Caius, you have to wear an [academic] gown to dinner," Hurst says. And Chirgwin described one of the traditions involving Clare College--the all-women's college she attended at Cambridge--and King's College. "Once a month one of their drinking clubs comes to piss on our wall, and we all gather on top and throw eggs and flour down at them...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: British Fellowships Return Rhodes' Favor | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

...concluded my research, well satisfied that I had applied my Harvard education to grand result. Those half-minute beer commercials, which previously had served as nothing more than piss-breaks during Celtic games, had accorded me the opportunity to choose wisely and to plan ahead for financial success and security...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Liquid Assets | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

Student Two: I am the person who is majoring in this subject. I will be disgraced if I'm not able to show the class that I know more than the section leader about this subject. I piss off everyone by discoursing on archaic usages of every term, and offering short bibliographical notes on many obscure names...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

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