Word: granted
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...responsible source." At first blink, the procedure sounded so cumbersome and so fraught with potential for misuse by accusers seeking publicity that many in the arts said NEA money might no longer be worth having. Impresario Joseph Papp of the Public Theater, which spurned one $50,000 NEA grant and expects to reject another for $325,000, denounced the new procedure as "a kind of cultural vice squad with people ratting on one another...
...would grant none of these as preconditions to a pullout. The last two items, officials admitted, could be negotiated between Iraq and Kuwait after a withdrawal is complete. "Then the two countries can reach any agreement they want," said an Administration source. But any formal Iraq- Kuwait link is out of the question for Bush's camp. "That demand tells us that Saddam Hussein still doesn't get it," said a senior White House ; official. "We haven't yet convinced him that he can't hang on to Kuwait, not even indirectly." It was notable, however, that Baghdad's offers...
...shows, displaying photographs, personalizing the tragedy, breaking everyone's heart? It is almost impossible for television to avoid doing what it does best: to dramatize, to symbolize, to administer the anchorman's sympathies and unctions. Wars by definition require a hardness of heart that looks terrible on television. Ulysses Grant would have lost his job in a week if he had had to discuss his methods (industrial warfare: the grinder) with Deborah Norville...
...casting of an English actor in a Eurasian part affronted some Asian Americans, including playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). Last week the board of Actors' Equity -- a union representing 40,000 U.S. performers and maintaining a reciprocal arrangement with its British counterpart -- refused to grant Pryce permission to appear on Broadway because he is not Asian. So far, so predictable: Mackintosh was expected to take the matter to arbitration and win his case, while the protesters reaped some sympathy and publicity...
...Chinatown, Gittes, normally able to go about his business of prying into people's private lives wihout any compunction, becomes a man possessed after falling in love with Evelyn Mulwray. Similarly, Gittes, haunted by his love for Evelyn and his inability to grant her last wish--that her daughter be protected and taken care of--becomes consumed with finding Katherine in The Two Jakes...