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...each of these doors a street genius named Franco has painted Pop-art murals appropriate to the goods sold inside: an underwater paradise for the fish shop, a spangled Eiffel Tower for the travel agency, a chain- laden Mr. T for the jewelry store. Midblock stands the legendary Apollo Theater, which brings Harlem alive every Wednesday with its Amateur Night display of singers, rap masters and a wonderfully gaudy fashion show. Next door is a vacant lot bearing the sign DANGER: KEEP...
Another quick cab ride deposits the visitor at New York's most ecstatic secular event: Amateur Night at the Apollo. A great seat for this slice of Harlem history costs just $12. Almost all major black entertainers played the Apollo, and many got their start at the Amateur Nights that have been held for 50 years. From the beginning, the host has been Ralph Cooper, who can still boogaloo and scooby-doo like a septuagenarian Michael Jackson...
...Amateur Night, a blend of revival meeting and The Gong Show, the Apollo audience is the true star. A favored artist -- say, the 300-lb. gent whose falsetto carries him through an all-stops-out aria from Dreamgirls -- wins whooping applause from this Colosseum of 1,500 self-appointed Caesars. Less appreciated acts -- the Whitney Houston clones and clumsy break dancers -- are pelted with catcalls until a figure known as the Executioner darts across the stage in clown garb and chases them into the wings. Usually the performers soldier on to the end, broken but unbowing. Surely, as starmaker...
...when Sun's workers turn to business -- producing workstations, which are high-powered computers in compact packages -- they are all business. Already Sun has eclipsed Apollo Computer, once the dominant force in the booming workstation marketplace. Now Sun is crowding Digital Equipment, a company 25 years its senior and more than six times its size. This year, as Sun approaches $2 billion in annual sales, even IBM can no longer ignore its rise. Says Robert Herwick, who follows the industry for the investment firm Hambrecht & Quist: "Clearly, Sun is the answer to a question...
...will not have the workstation market all to itself. Last week a major competitor, Hewlett-Packard, said it had reached an agreement to buy workstation pioneer Apollo for $476 million. The merger will give Hewlett- Packard more than 30% of the workstation market, supplanting Sun (28%) as the top manufacturer. But the workstation market is expected to grow some 44% this year, to nearly $6 billion, leaving plenty of room for expansion. Says William Joy, Sun's vice president of research and development: "The action is on the desktop. That's where most of the people...