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...Hardly mentioned were Berlioz, Ives and Bruckner. When faced with our current economic realities, an orchestra must often make the safe choice. It is like ballet companies who have to do hundreds of performances of Nutcracker, driving dancers and musicians wacky, so that other, more inventive works may be underwritten...
...Watt returned West to become the first president of the Denver-based Mountain States Legal Foundation, a "public interest" law firm underwritten by conservative Western businessmen. Under Watt, Mountain States went to court to fight against discount utility rates for elderly and disabled people in Colorado, federal strip-mining regulations, a plan to designate part of a Wyoming oilfield a protected wilderness area and a National Park Service ban on motorized rafts in the Grand Canyon. "When Jim believes he's right, he's a man of action," says Lawyer William Mellor III, who worked for Watt...
BROOKE SHIELDS HAS made several anti-smoking commercials in recent months, in an attempt to steer her peers away from the evil wood. Now, underwritten by conservative religious groups, she has released a documentary about what happens when kids couple. And the news is hot good; not good at all. You can do a lot of things in this world and no one will think too badly of you. You can fill oil tanks with seawater and sell stock, you can use every sort of calumny in pursuit of political power, you can even charge lots of money for tickets...
Such "radical" developments were underwritten by an appeal to older systems of art, not only to the Japanese print-makers, whose cutting into the wooden block provided the essence of division between line and patch, but also to French masters like Ingres, with his steadfast differentiation between color and drawing...
...resold for under ?200, or $560. Sir Edward Burne-Jones' Love and the Pilgrim, sold in 1898 for .?5,775 ($28,000), dropped to ?21 ($85) within less than 50 years. If artists who in their day were considered outstanding, whose work was underwritten by the capital and by the social opinions of a powerful empire, could vanish into the oubliette, there is no reason to suppose that the same thing may not happen to their modern equivalents-the Rothkos and Newmans, the Warhols and Johnses, and even (blasphemous thought!) some of the Picassos. What goes up is quite...