Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consumer-electronics trade show. But most of the computer systems on display started at $50,000 and did a good deal more than play video games. At the booth of a company called Intellicorp, engineers from Ford Aerospace were showing off a program for troubleshooting balky satellites. At the Apollo Computer display, a firm called Visual Intelligence had a system to help nuclear-plant operators quickly interpret the kind of instrument readings that confused technicians at Three Mile Island. On a Digital Equipment computer, newspaper specialists from Composition Systems exhibited a program that lets editors accommodate late- breaking news...
...cost her the title and all likelihood of immediate stardom. In the year since, she has been slowly working her way back, with a forgettable guest shot on a TV detective series last fall and a turn among the many performers at last month's reopening of Harlem's Apollo Theater. This week at Manhattan's South Street Theater, she gets to do her first musical comedy, an off-Broadway show called One Man Band. Williams, 22, plays several female figments of the imagination of the young hero, and she sings and dances "wonderfully," reports Director Jack (The Elephant...
...Coolidge, professor of architectural history, calls the building "brilliant," at once "striking, convenient and, above all, a sympathetic setting for works of art." Counters Law Professor Charles M. Haar: "The Sackler is even uglier than the Burr Lecture Hall that was there before. The site must be cursed by Apollo." The Sackler's alternately amusing and infuriating clash of details may blind critics to its innovations. The theatrical staircase, for example, clearly separates three stories of public exhibitions at one side of the building from five stories of educational, research and administrative activities on the other. In the galleries...
From the age of vaudeville to the eve of the age of music videos, the white- owned Apollo nurtured black music. When the Beatles, on their first visit to the U.S., were asked what they wanted to see, No. 1 on their list was the Apollo. But after blacks broke into the mainstream and could play larger houses for larger fees, the Apollo declined. In 1976 it closed and lapsed into the realm of remembrance, like vaudeville at the Palace or P.T. Barnum's extravaganzas at the Hippodrome. Now it has been opened again by black businessmen, led by former...
...perform at the theater again, Stevie Wonder said, "I don't know." LaBelle warned of the need for sacrifice: "If we let our egos stay behind and let our pocketbooks stay empty for a while and just go do things for feeling and spirit and causes, I think the Apollo will survive." Meanwhile, for that night, the dream and the memory and the music drowned out the murmurs of caution. And one onlooker who had been there for all the glory times judged this perhaps the grandest. Said Francis ("Doll") Thomas, 91, an electrician at the theater since 1933: "This...