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...excluded from international condemnation simply because they bought their way out of World War II. We should all recognize our crimes against the Jews and focus on teaching our children how to avoid spreading the ignorance that was rampant in the early days of the century. APRIL D. REAGAN Apex, North Carolina...
Dragone loves birth and evolution metaphors; they are at the heart of Mystere, still the apex of Cirque sorcery. In Quidam's most enthralling solo turn, a red sash stretches like a birth canal from roof to floor, and Isabelle Vaudelle wriggles and pirouettes artfully in it, a child willing itself to be born. In the spirit of the best Cirque routines, this is wordless drama; it transforms motion into emotion...
...what if we were able to ensure that everyone had an equal shot at financing political campaigns? Several constitutional theorists have suggested that such a scheme would be the apex of campaign finance reform. For instance, in his "Equal Dollars Per Voter," Edward Foley argues that all private funding should be eliminated from campaigns, allowing each voter to allocate an equal proportion of a pool of public financing to favored candidates...
...just 25 when he directed, produced, co-wrote and starred in his first film, a veiled biography of newspaper potentate William Randolph Hearst. Yet so controversial was Kane before its release in 1941, and so overwhelming its pressure on Welles' reputation, that it can be seen as the apex of his career, perhaps of Hollywood's Golden Age. It surely makes the man worth one more biography, Simon Callow's Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu (Viking; $29.95), and the film worth a long documentary look, The Battle over Citizen Kane by Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein...
Planners say the new center sits at the apex of a V-configuration of humanities buildings, with the museums of Quincy St. on one side and a line of humanities buildings from Boylston Hall to Widener Library on the other...