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1 NEA chairman visits Omaha
By Paula Lavlgn«
Senior Reporter
OMAHA — The arts in Americ
need more support to flourish and t
impact society, according to Natioiu
Endowment for the Arts chairma
Jane Alexander.
“We (the NEA) invest in your ai
tistic expression and excellence an
what that will mean to your commu
nity,” Alexander said Thursday in ;
speech at the Omaha Communit;
Playhouse.
Her appearance was sponsored h
United Arts Omaha and the Greate
Omaha Chamber of Commerce ii
honor of their joint campaign “Sa;
Yes to the Arts.”
“I say yes to Omaha and to Ne
bra ska,’ she said.
Alexander’s ties to Nebraska
spanned three generations.
“My grandfather, Daniel Quigley
J settled here in Nebraska, in the towr
of North Platte,” she said. “Daniel
ft Quigley was a doctor, and at one time,
U personal physician to Buffalo Bill
Cody.”
Alexander said her family worked
with the Union Pacific Railroad* one
of the event’s sponsors.
“For the past year, I have been
crossing America, like the railroads
cross our country, and I have come to
listen to the American story and to
the needs of this community,” she
said.
She said President Bill Clinton
and his wife, Hillary Clinton, had
made a commitment to the arts across
the country. She cited the sculpture
exhibit at the White House curated
by George Neubert, director of the
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
Clinton’s GOALS 2000 and his
“Community and culture help give individuals a
a sense of who they are. ”
0
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1
NEA chairman
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A -
i introduction of a cultural dimensior
i to national policy were positive
moves toward arts support, she said
f “The river that runs through the
r conversations I’ve had with the
t American people is the need to re
f new the connection between the arts
and the life of the community,” she
- said.
Alexander said she set aside twe
i goals for the NEA’s future. She said
she wanted to turn around the public
image of the NEA and see “that the
i best art reaches the most people ”
She also said she hoped the NEA
would encourage Congress to support
a climate of art, culture, inquiry and
expression. Congress cut this year’s
NEA budget by 2 percent to $167.4
million. The NEA has awarded more
than 100,000 grants in the past 29
years.
“It’s estimated that every dollar we
give generates about $11 to $26 in
any given community,” she said.
“That’s a record other agencies just
can’t match.”
NEA funding goes toward several
arts organizations in Lincoln and
Omaha, including the Lied Center for
Performing Arts, the Omaha Magic
Theater, Opera Omaha and the Ne
braska Chamber Orchestra.
“Chances are that you have right
now in your pockets the 65 cents that
n each of you pays in taxes yearly for
e arts — the price of a cup of coffee,”
I. she said.
e Alexander said she wanted to en
e gage people in the cultural life of their
community through these organiza
s tions.
e “The neighborhoods are where
change happens. If all politics is lo
3 cal, all change is local too,” she said,
j “One person does make a difference.”
: She said the arts were a way to
i bring people in a community to
gether. i
L We come together in our
t houses of worship, at sporting events, /
and at arts events to attend a festival,
experience a play, hear the commu
nal voice of a poet, a singer, a
painter,” she said.
“Community and culture help give
individuals a sense of who they are.
They help us find our authentic voice
and guide the life of the spirit.”
Schools are the first place to start
this community renewal, she said.
“Children love to dream and to
create responses to the world around
them as they grow and shape their
own identity,” she said.
“Art is a great tool for developing
our intellectual, emotional and aes
thetic tastes and capacities, yet some
see it as a frill among our diffuse edu
cational priorities,” Alexander said.
vBQDK Reviews—
MThe Norton Book of Ghent Stories”
Edited by Brad Leithauser
W.W. Norton
Grade: B+
It's not too difficult to get a hor
ror or mystery novel, but it’s al
most impossible to find a defini
tive collection of classic and con
temporary ghost stories
Until now.
“The Norton Book of Ghost Sto
ries” is a new anthology that in
cludes 28 of the eeriest hard-to
find tales from the past 130 years. <
Authors include Hen™ James,
M.R. James and Oliver Onions, as
well as writers not so well-known |
for writing ghost stories, such as
Muriel Spark, Shirley Jackson,
Edith Wharton and V.S. Pritchett. (
Everything one could want in a ,
book of ghost stories is here: 1
haunted houses, towers, forests and >
everything in between.
None of the stories are blood- p
and-guts horror — just pure cold v
spots, shadows and ghostly c
screams.
Elizabeth Taylor's creepy story, ii
“Poor Girl,” is a tale of a haunted F
governess, a theme similar to r
Hen™ James’s book “The Turn of 1<
the Screw,” and it is one of the n
most interesting tales in the col
lection. “
Close behind in its terror is si
The Tooth,” a tale by Shirley p
Jackson taken from the book “The d
Lottery.” \(
Even romance finds a place in o
this book, in Hector Hugh K
Munroe’s tale “The Open Win- a
dow.”
From the bone-rattling pace of A
M.R. James’s “Count Mangus” to a
Edith Wharton’s subtle scares in fi
“The Looking Glass,” the anthol- w
ogy includes stories for all tastes. b
Editor Brad Leithauser said in
the introduction that the Mories he n
chose represented their authors in
well. He decided not te include p<
ghost stories by more famous writ- m
ers like Charles Dickens and the
Brontes, whose works are much ai
easier to access than many of these si
stories. ca
“The Norton Book of Ghost
Stories” is a fantastic book for any- er
one who loves a good scare or just of
appreciates great writing.
Read it, but plan on keeping a
light on when you go to bed, be
cause it is not a matter of whether
you believe in ghosts — as
Leithauscr wrote in his introduc
tion: ,
the universe is unsettling
whether it is inhabited by spirits j
or whether we — lone walkers on (
a bitter night — are alone in the
windy darkness."
i
— Steven Sparling <
i
Taltos" i
Vnne Rice
Ufred A. Knopf i
}rade: C+ 1
c
The mysterious Mayfair witches I
oncoct their special brew of ro- *
nance, evil and intrigue in Anne
lice’s latest novel, ‘Taltos,” but <
heir powers are running short. 1
“Taltos” is a continuation of the 1
dayfair witches’ saga that began p
rith “The Witching Hour” and it
ontinued with “Lasher.” a
Known for her captivating writ
®g in “The Vampire Chronicles,” ti
Lice tries to polish her witch se- ii
ies with the same finesse, but ti
saves the readers in a puzzling T
lelodrama. si
“Taltos” picks up where ti
Lasher” left off. Lasher, the dc- n
ructive spirit, is no more. The it
owerful Rowan Mayfair is ren
ered sterile and the Mayfair it
:gacy is passed on to her worldly tl
>usin, 13-year-old Mona Mayfair “’
lichael Curry, Rowan’s husband, sj
ivaits his wife’s recovery. bi
“Taltos” also introduces Ash, or ei
ahlar, as another true Taltos —
i archaic supernatural being de
ned by his incredible height and 1
hitcned hair. A Taltos can be bred Zi
f a witch. M
Ash poses as a modern corpo- “
ite giant. He has a jumbled past
volving the Mayfair clan and the
iwerful Talamasca — the super
itural investigative institution. cc
Ash is Rice s attempt to create M
'other vampire Lestat. Ash falls of
oit of this tragic character be- K
use his powers are too relative. *ii
“Thltos” does entice the audi- R*
ice with its descriptive narrative
New Orleans, Scotland and Lon
Ion, but it is a limited audience.
Unlike “The Vampire Chronicles,”
the witch novels must be read in
:hronologicaI order with notes in
hand — lest one forget Oncle '
lulien and the other million
Vfaytairs brought up in vague ref
erence.
Unless the readers are devoted
Uce readers, they will have a hard
ime picking up “Taltos.” For Rice
bllowers, “Taltos” still provides
;timulating reading; however, it
itarts to fall into a continual soap
>pcra format, losing its opportu
lity to expose new philosophy and
ntrigue.
Rice created a fascinating set of
tew characters, mainly Mary Jane
dayfair, Mona's eccentric country
ousin. Mary Jane’s powers com
pare to Mona’s and the two form a
ormidable union.
Her characters, with their intri
ate morals and superobjectives,
ill in former roles. The
alamasca’s Aaron Lightner if re
laced by Yuri, his apprentice. Ash
ikes the spotlight from Lasher,
nd Mona overcomes Rowan.
Rice manages to weave an in
icate plot, taking her characters
ito new facets of heir personal] -
es and idiosyncracies. The
alamasca, once the pristine ami
udiops order founded on solid
adition and ethics, undergoes a
volution of corruption anddisil
ision.
Once known for her sexual ro
ance novellas, Rice abstains from
tese glorified escapades in
raltos.” Only a few scenes
irinkle the pages, which is too
id because they were always quite
i rapturing.
As an excellent writer, Rice is
capable of producing an inher
it!^ bad work, but it seems as if
* s headed on a path to purely
mraercial -driven entertainment
riling^— the “Stephen King syn
ome”
It would be nice if “Tsltos” |
uld be as enlightening as “The
anpire LcstaCbut it falls short
Rice’s entrancing skill for de
ription and narraOve. “Lasher”
°ply begged for a sequel, and
ce complied. £
— Paula Lavigne J
