Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recall Elvis backstage at the Apollo Theater in New York City, watching with fascination the great R.-and-B. pioneers Bo Diddley and Jackie Wilson. He, in turn, would be listened to and watched by performers who worshipped him. The roots of his influence went deeply into almost all forms of rock-'n'-roll music, including blues rock and rockabilly. Presley led not only his fans but also performers worldwide. There had never been such an idol. The world had seen Rudolph Valentino in films drive young women insane. The postwar bobby-soxers screamed for Sinatra. But before the Beatles...
...melodic and rhythmic vistas Armstrong opened up solved the mind-body problem as the world witnessed how the brain and the muscles could work in perfect coordination on the aesthetic spot. Apollo and Dionysus met in the sweating container of a genius from New Orleans whose sensitivity and passion were epic in completely new terms. In his radical reinterpretations, Armstrong bent and twisted popular songs with his horn and his voice until they were shorn of sentimentality and elevated to serious art. He brought the change agent of swing to the world, the most revolutionary rhythm of his century...
...time for NASA to take a hard look at this project," suggests Jeffrey Kluger, author of "Apollo 13" and TIME Science writer. "A lot of what we can do aboard the station we can do aboard the shuttle." If you were hoping to jump on the first flight up, you'll have better luck getting tickets for the replica Titanic...
...this be? The simplest explanation is that the story From the Earth to the Moon tries to tell is too vast to be contained even in 12 hours. The movie Apollo 13 was a success largely because of its simple, intense narrative--guys go up in space, look as if they'll die, succeed in not dying. The mini-series is much more diffuse. Hanks and his colleagues have tried to be selective, but the smaller stories they tell either are not the right ones or are not dramatized effectively...
...example, episode 2, set in 1967, concerns the investigation into the causes of fire on Apollo 1 that killed three men. The technical sleuthing is mildly interesting, and the two engineers at the center of the tale are sympathetic, yet the episode never crackles. The hour that follows focuses on Wally Schirra, leader of the Apollo 7 mission, who is played by Mark Harmon. In an irritating device, Peter Horton is a documentary filmmaker who questions Schirra and others. The result is an aimless string of interviews; Schirra talks more than he acts, and the story has no drive...