Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walls of Lowell Lecture Hall were thumping on Friday night as the Black Students Association (BSA) hosted its fourth annual "It's Showtime at the Apollo" event...
...think this show was just a feel-good, mindless display of silly pop music. Almost every erudite song TMBG has recorded made an appearance; the Johns even commented on this very fact. The characteristics of our fellow man were explained in Apollo 18's song "Mammal." Our glorious 11th president was immortalized in "James K. Polk," an upbeat song in which confetti was dispersed over the crowd by a gigantic cannon. The end of the regular set saw a punked-out and speeded-up version of "Why Does The Sun Shine (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent...
...room. You will have to contend with the possibility that the slightest mishap could mean you'll never come home again. Nonetheless, Buzz is convinced you'll have a good time. And he should know--he's been there. Aldrin, who so famously walked on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission 29 years ago, wants to send you into space. And if he has his way, you'll be going soon...
...says. "It's very simple, done on a very simple budget, and that was part of it--to make a simple film." But Universal Pictures, which held the rights, always laughed him off. Good Will Hunting's grosses and the clout of producer Brian Grazer (Liar Liar and Apollo 13) helped bring the studio around...
...pointing out a detail of a painting to his ideal viewer--not a New York "conosher" but a farmer in a straw hat who still holds the buggy whip with which he has, presumably, driven in from Long Island. On the wall behind, a drawing of the head of Apollo is looking haughtily away from this populist scene...