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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: Racism, Kayapo, Islam]

  Eddie Becker, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Interviews with author Roger Lane about black poverty, Dagma Karstenson about waitressing, Richard Cottam about Islam and Saddam Hussein, as well as a press conference about the Amazonian Kayapo people.