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...wealthier, better educated, and whiter than a typical cross-section of the American public." One prescription: "No longer restricted solely to the sanctioned arenas of culture, the arts would be literally suffused throughout the civic structure...from youth programs and crime prevention to job training and race relations--far afield from the traditional aesthetic functions of the arts...
Poor arts! No one ever suggests that dogs range far afield from the traditional canine function. The catch is, when you take money from the government, you subject yourself to the mercies of the political process--which is also open, as the recent history of the NEA (not to mention history, period) proves, to philistines and worse. American Canvas reminds us that they are not all on the right. Critic Edward Rothstein put it tartly in the Times: "Washington liberals took a similarly vulgar view [to conservatives], focusing on their own versions of 'values' and treating art as a form...
...critical success, which is very nice if it happens, but I cannot have it in mind [while I work]. I try to tell the stories which are interesting, appealing, important, and which I have to tell." The next story she has to tell may carry Holland as far afield as Canada, Poland, India, and France--"except," she chuckles, "I don't have the money." No telling what kind of story could bridge all of these locales, but no one has ever said that Agnieszka Holland isn't ambitious
...Jobtrak] will be a lot more convenient for people who are far afield to access," Harrington said...
Indeed, much of what Weil recommends is pretty simple stuff: self-administered, commonsense cures like eating less fat, getting more exercise and reducing stress. He leads readers a little farther afield when he introduces them to herbalism, acupuncture, naturopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic and hypnotism, although most of these protocols fall into the can't-hurt-could-help category. Where he may get into trouble is when he wanders farther still, uncritically endorsing treatments such as cranial manipulation that seem like folly even to many alternative-medicine believers. For skeptics looking for reasons to dismiss Weil, this kind of at-the-fringes...