Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even while taxpayer money may subsidize some worthwhile artistic projects, too often the seed money that Hughes endorses actually cultivates bad seeds. This is vividly illustrated in a new book by Alice G. Marquis of the University of California at San Diego, Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding. Marquis, a history scholar and self-identified Democrat, notes, "The [National Endowment for the Arts'] shotgun policy of passing out masses of small grants has conjured up an unsustainable array of needy groups and individuals ... Well meaning in its objective, [it] has also produced unexpected consequences...
...televised indictment of Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs, might have caused my venom to rise to near-O.J. levels. But a printed account allows me to nod in agreement, concur that these men should have been captured earlier and that they are wrong. If I saw it on TV, though, I might yell at these slimebags and call for our government to crush them. Thank god for my health that the cable broke...
...feeling is that the prices are going to rise because I haven't seen them stop," he added...
...Real World is addictive television, and it has become MTV's top-rated series. The success of the show has given rise to another Murray-Bunim creation, Road Rules, which premiered on MTV last week and will air on Monday nights throughout the summer. This series follows another group of carefully selected young strangers, this time placed in a Winnebago and told to drive around the country looking for clues to direct them from one destination to the next. In some ways, Road Rules seems a direct response to criticisms of The Real World: though edited in the manner...
...just a few potential hit singles but a whole album of appealing music. Its "concept" is to take listeners through a night or so with Jodeci--the parties, the flirtations with female fans and so on. The songs flow into one another as the night winds on. Melodic rhythms rise--like the cooing Pump It Back--and recede. One song, the sublimely earthy Good Luv, features the voices of the quartet accompanied only by an acoustic guitar. The group has never sounded better. The album's only major flaw is its sexist cover art, which features the silhouette...