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Even women who are willing and financially able to press their case with a private lawyer may find hidden costs. In 1987, Regina Rhodes filed charges against the owners of the Apollo Theater in Harlem after they refused to take seriously her complaints of unwelcome overtures from a co-worker and eventually fired her. In March she won an $85,000 judgment, but the case is still not over. The theater owners' appeal now proceeds through the New York court system. And the litigation has hurt her professionally. "I had to change the kind of work I was doing...
Clinton dispensed with losers' night, a Democratic tradition whereby those vanquished in the primaries get to take one last prime-time swipe at the winner. Jesse Jackson's ranting took place off-camera at a Don't Mess with Jesse rally at Harlem's Apollo Theater. By the time he took to the convention stage on Tuesday, half-glasses perched professorially on his nose, the anger seemed to have gone out of him. He still had the lyrics, but the music was missing. The Democrats' other problem child, former California Governor Jerry Brown, got only 20 minutes...
...wasn't that Canova imagined himself rivaling the Greeks; practically no one then imagined such a feat was possible. Works like the Apollo Belvedere, let alone the Parthenon marbles (which, abducted from Athens under a veneer of legal transaction by Lord Elgin, went on view in London in 1807), were beyond the reach of living talent; one could only marvel at what Canova, on first seeing the Elgin Marbles in 1815, called "the truth of nature conjoined to the choice of beautiful form -- everything here breathes life . . . with an exquisite artifice, without the slightest affectation or pomp...
...victims were already burned when they fell out of the sky. Autopsies also disclosed lethal doses of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide in body tissues, proving that the fire and explosion occurred while the passengers were still breathing. I. Irving Pinkel, a former NASA expert who also investigated Apollo 1's fatal fire, found two fuselage holes with an "outward pucker," indicating an explosion from within. Finally, four members of the refueling crew swore there was no icing problem before the plane took...
...consider the first four letters in the title of Gladiator a "Rocky" wanna-be whose characters fail to provoke emotions as could Mr. Balboa or Apollo Creed, I ponder whether I am GLAD that I viewed this trash? No, I categorically declare. GLADness would have required obtaining a lobotomy along with my buttered popcorn upon entering the theater...