Word: apollos
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...museum also features the ancestor of all video games, "Spacewar! ," developed by MIT students in 1962, and the computer used in the capsule of the Apollo spacecraft...
...Cambodia, African-style." That is how some Westerners describe Uganda today, five years after the fall of Dictator Idi Amin Dada. They contend that the government of President Apollo Milton Obote, whom Amin deposed in 1971 and who returned to power in 1980, has caused the deaths of as many as 100,000 Ugandan civilians and brought another 150,000 to the brink of starvation in a ruthless campaign to wipe out guerrillas. "We had hoped that the country would continue to make progress away from the terrible Idi Amin years," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights...
...Starlight Express, a homage to trains, with lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, is (surprise!) the season's hottest ticket. It is also just about a total bust. For this multimedia combo of Rollerball and The Little Engine That Could, Designer John Napier has ramped and revamped the huge Apollo Victoria Theater, allowing the young cast room to roller-skate through three levels of the audience. But all the amplified sound and whirling energy cannot hide the show's vacuity. The story line is repetitive and inconsequential; Trevor Nunn's staging is an elephantine parody of his wondrous work...
...suggested, in a 1960 memo to President John Kennedy, that a man could be put on the moon by decade's end. After the disastrous January 1967 fire that killed three astronauts, NASA Deputy Director Low took charge of redesigning and rebuilding the Apollo craft; with 90-hour, detail-obsessed work weeks, he met his deadline when Apollo 11 reached the moon in July 1969. In 1976, Low became president of his alma mater, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Seven weeks ago, his son David was named an astronaut...
...Fragonard. Its exponents, such as Carlo Maria Mariani, Stefano di Stasio or Omar Galliani, never use such "warm" sources. As shown by Mariani's Ercole che Riposa, they prefer the cold touch of marble and the frigid contortions of mannerism. Their dream of beauty is a simpering Apollo or a Big Daddy Hercules surrounded by Ganymedes with pearlescent teeth, all in a Roman campagna done from slides-the love among the ruins that dares not speak its name...