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  Las Vegas: Last Oasis In America

  American Way, Roots of Video, Video Makers Choice

  Video portrait of Las Vegas in the late 1970s.

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  [The 90’s raw: NEA artists’ press conference]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. At a press conference held by several artists who were denied Nation Endowment for the Arts funding because their work was deemed obscene by NEA chairman John E. Frohnmayer. The main theme of each speaker seems to be that because Frohnmayer has caved in to the conservatives in Congress, he has not served to protect and foster art, as is his mission as NEA chairman.

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  [The 90’s raw: Venice Beach #1]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. The tape begins with an interview about a CD-ROM produced in conjunction with Time Magazine that chronicles Operation Desert Storm. Then, Maxi Cohen tours California’s Venice Beach, showing us some of its usual characters. Included are: a man with a Safe Sex plant (with condoms for leaves); a “peace scroll,” a giant petition urging the United Nations to make peace in the Persian Gulf; a hip-hop dance group; and Echo Man, a man who has the ability to make his unaided voice sound as if it is echoing.

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  [The 90’s raw: Venice Beach #2]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Maxi Cohen tours California’s Venice Beach, showing us some of its usual characters (mostly various street musicians).