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The Poverty of Civil Libertarianism
44 New York Times B3 (November 10, 1989), B1 (March 24, 1992). The
description of Helms's response is a quotation from his official spokesperson.
See generally Bolton (1992).
Frohnmayer's successor, Anne-lmelda Radice, promptly vetoed two
grants recommended by her 26-member advisory panel (one unanimously,
one 11-1-1). The first, "My Wishes," contained one penis
among more than 100 tiny photographs of faces, lips, and hair. The
second, "Genital Wallpaper," was not "sexually explicit." Radice
denied she had received instructions from the White House: "it wouldn't
be necessary because those people know me and my work." Los Angeles
Times F1 (May 4, 1992); New York Times B1 (May 13, 1992). The seven
members of the sculpture panel responded by suspending consideration
of applications. New York Times 12 (May 16, 1992). When a federal
judge struck down the prohibition against funding "obscene" material,
Rep. Ralph Regula (R-Ohio), who had drafted it, was confident that
"under the rubric of artistic excellence [Radice] will continue to apply
that subjective judgment call." New York Times A1 (June 10, 1992). She
planned to by-pass her obstreparous advisory panel in allocating
$750,000 in fellowships. New York Times 13 (August 1, 1992).
45 Problems of Communism, launched by the United States Information
Agency in 1952, claimed complete independence from the government.
But in its early years the USIA refused to allow any mention of Marx,
Engels, Lenin, or Stalin! It ceased publication after 40 years when there
were no more problems with communism. New York Times s.1 p.26
(May 31, 1992).
The USIA withdrew a $35,000 grant to an exhibit on "La Reconquista:
A Post-Columbian New World" by the Centra Cultural de la Raza at the
Istanbul Biennial, whose theme was the "Production of Cultural Difference."
The USIA and the U.S. Embassy in Turkey objected to an essay
criticising the "violent history of conquest and domination." Los Angeles
Times F1 (September 19, 1992).
46 Chronicle of Higher Education A21 (February 19, 1992), A25 (April 8,
1992); New York Times B1 (February 24, 1992).
47 Los Angeles Times F1 (February 21, 1992), F1 (February 28, 1992); New
York Times A8 (March 4, 1992), A8 (March 5, 1992).
When the Public Broadcasting System hired British filmmakers to
produce "The Lost Language of Cranes" it required them to make a
different American version in which the nude men wore boxer shorts.
When "Masterpiece Theatre" screened the BBC's "Portrait of a Marriage,"
it cut 34 minutes, including girlhood scenes in which Violet
Trefusis, dressed as a man, climbed into bed with a fully-clothed Vita
Sackville-West. In introducing the American version, Alistair Cooke
characterised the lesbian relationship as a dangerous interlude threatening
Vita's marriage with Harold Nicholson, rather than as the grand
passion of her life. Jac Venza, PBS director of performance programmes,
explained: "there are two things program managers have a hard time
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