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...dozen have excited serious controversy and only two--to the Mapplethorpe show and Serrano--have brought it to the verge of abolition. Significantly, neither case involved a direct grant by the nea to the artist. Serrano got his $15,000 of public money as an award from the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, which the NEA had given a grant to distribute as it thought fit. All the same, it is obvious from this debacle that the NEA should not have set itself up as the Lady Bountiful of the so-called cutting edge...
...champagne was popping back in the American fitting rooms. Says Kaye Davis, fashion director of the Atlanta Apparel Mart, which serves more than 125,000 stores in the Southeastern U.S.: "The trend is away from trendiness. Women want a more structured, sophisticated look, and designers are finally offering what we want." Donna Castleberry, manager for fashion of the California Mart, expects that conservative chic "will take off. Clean, tailored classics carry people through so much-from the office to wherever." Kaner of Neiman Marcus contends that the new looks will "filter down well," meaning that a $1,500 jacket from...
Turkish forces invaded Iraq to attack Kurdish separatists fighting an 11-year-old guerrilla war in southeastern Turkey. The incursion, Turkey's largest military intervention since its invasion of Cyprus in 1974, involved 35,000 troops. Said Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller: "We are determined that in this final operation, the job will definitively be done...
Even as flood waters began to subside this afternoon in the Netherlands after a week of storms across northern Europe, Dutch army troops were frantically trying to reinforce below-sea-level dikes in the southeastern part of the country.The danger: more than 300 miles of ancient, water-soaked dikes have been severely weakened by flooded rivers. As the waters recede, sections of the dikes may begin to shift -- even burst. More than a quarter-million Dutch have already fled, fearing the worst flood disaster since 1953, when 1,800 people died. "There's still a massive evacuation underway, and large...
Some 250,000 people fled southeastern plains of the Netherlands today after continued flooding submerged towns and villages, while cars and trucks jammed the water-logged highways. Even worse, crisis management experts are warning that the country's 300-mile network of dikes, which dates to the Middle Ages, is "soaked to the limit" and could burst. The Finance Ministry put the price tag for a "worst-case scenario" at $46 billion...