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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...producing art like Piss Christ, you're not expecting the government will fund it," said Shattuck Professor of Law David W. Kennedy, referring to a photograph by Andres Serrano of a crucifix immersed in urine...

Author: By Ronald Y. Koo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Controversial Art Funds Discussed By Panelists | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...have gained any friends at the National Endowment for the Arts, these artists all raised important questions about the contemporary and historic constructions of their ethnic, sexual and political identities. Walker joked about one of Serrano's most notorious images, "You can't put Jesus in a piss jar, but you can't put Sambo anywhere...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walker Show Subverts Racial Stereotypes | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

...blockbuster crowd, a generally warm-weather group, likes familiarity. They so love it when a movie has a number at the end of its title that, in cases like ID4, they will actually add one where none exists. They like attractive, squabbling, invariably "brilliant" scientists who do stupid things: piss off dinosaurs, drive into tornadoes, piss off dinosaurs AGAIN. Plus, these people hate Emma Thompson, because she was in that dumb pregnant-man movie with their pal Ah-nuld. What was up with that...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...than it needs to. At last year's rate of spending, that's over $40 million, enough to cover the annual salaries of more than 1,000 mid-level teachers. "They have plenty of money," he snarls, with characteristic bluntness. "You can give these people $500 million. They'll piss it away." Baltimore's high special-ed costs come on top of the fact that Congress originally intended the Federal Government to pay 40% of the tab for educating handicapped children. In Baltimore last year, the Federal Government picked up less than 4%. "There's all this talk about unfunded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...whose door was open." One of the officers "rushed up and attempted to push back the photographers, who offered resistance. They were virulent, pushy and continued to take photos, intentionally preventing him from bringing aid to the victims. One of them pushed [the officer] back and declared, 'You piss me off. Let me do my work. At Sarajevo at least the cops let us work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DOSSIER ON PRINCESS DIANA'S CRASH | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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