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...Renewal means we first must identify its strengths and then identify the factors that serve to corrupt it. Some aspects of government-subsidized art are clearly designed to undermine our civilization. For example, despite its prominent reproduction in a full-page photo, Piss Christ, Andres Serrano's blasphemous, NEA-underwritten exhibit, is barely addressed by Hughes. That is not too surprising. The Piss Christ is difficult to defend aesthetically and is completely indefensible as a taxpayer-subsidized project...
...second-leading beneficiary is the GSD whichwill receive $17.2 million to support the LoebFellowship Program in Advanced EnvironmentalStudies and the Frances Loeb Library, wherechanges to modern information management systemswill be underwritten...
...investment bankers set up a financial structure that allows the party to raise the capital it needs. People looking to invest money for their future can buy the stocks and bonds that the investment bankers have underwritten...
...second, which is a fantasy conversation among embodiments of the same woman at three stages of life. Jordan Baker, who plays a young lawyer and then the dowager at a callow 26, looks gorgeous but hasn't a clue what to do with either of these somewhat underwritten roles...
Waterston struggles manfully to explicate this underwritten character, never more successfully than when he capers around the stage in delight at a couple of his own irreverent jokes. But it is a measure of how stately and hollow the enterprise is that the grandest moments are the scene changes, with their sweeping use of the wide stage, and the special effects of the finale, as a train pulls in to take Lincoln away to Washington, martyrdom and immortality...