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When the hero leads an infectious jam session at Harlem's Apollo Theater, the walls of cultural segregation almost tangibly tumble down...
...summer at the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, N.Y., most of the pieces are figures or heads. But they are complex, swathed in images of metamorphosis. One of Frank's recurrent themes from classical mythology is that of Daphne, the daughter of a river god; pursued by an amorous Apollo, she turned into a laurel tree to protect herself. The elements of that myth ? eroticism, physical change and an invocation of the antique past ? pervade Mary Frank's work as a whole. Bodies be come landscape, human anatomy wavers into that of animal or plant, and the structure...
Saudi Arabia "hurtles into the jet age," but we could carry them much farther. Over the past four years I have urged NASA to put an Arab on the moon (and bring him or her back). The Saudis can easily finance another Apollo mission, NASA could get more scientific data on and from the moon, and our aerospace industry could be rejuvenated by a few billion petrodollars...
David Scott, Apollo 15 astronaut, on the blastoff: "You just sat there thinking that this piece of hardware had 400,000 components, all of them built by the lowest bidder...
...importance of "push," and consequently falls into bad company: he inadvertently sells his soul to the Mafia (in the guise of mobster Babe Milano, played in sleazy enough fashion by Tony Lo Bianco), and watches--along with millions of Americans who saw him do so well against Apollo Creed--as his self-created American dream grows, and then collapses in disarray, about...