Word: apollos
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...Five” and adopt a more raw male vocal sound. The feel of the album can’t be described as alternative. It lies somewhere between indie and electronica, informed as much by the smooth beats of Moby’s relaxed moments as by Apollo Four Forty’s frenetic, guitar-based electronica...
...reach us, and it is hard to say what the effect will be. Scientists have their own questions about the forces at work early in the universe and their relevance to the cosmos today, but the power of a photograph can have an impact broader than science. During Project Apollo, an astronaut took a picture of the frail, blue-and-white Earth rising above a desolate lunar landscape, and suddenly people realized just where they were. Some perspectives changed, and that photo helped take the environmental movement into the mainstream. So when the first rays of light have crossed...
...played by 20-year-old Lena Horne, in her movie debut. When Horne was signed by MGM, the film was rereleased, this time as "The Bronze Venus;" Horne's name was now at the top, Cooper's in agate print below. Cooper would emcee Amateur Night at the Apollo Theatre for 50 years; at the end of which he could still boogaloo and scooby-doo like an octogenarian Michael Jackson...
...online service Daly uses, called Netflix, just passed the 500,000-subscriber mark, riding a boom in DVDs and discontentment with the old rental model. Indeed, founder Reed Hastings got the idea for the company when he was hit with a $40 late fee for a copy of Apollo 13 back in 1998. "If I'd returned it on time," he says, "we wouldn't be here today." Now Jupiter Media Metrix rates Netflix.com as one of the 10 busiest e-commerce sites, a list that also includes eBay and Amazon. Every day 82,000 DVDs roll through the conveyor...
...grammar of his compositions was always explicit but, at the same time, often surprising. He loved ruins, ideal scenery, viaducts, pyramids and everything that seemed both ancient and vulnerable: the stability of the pyramidal mountain in Ad Parnassum, 1932 (which translates as "To Parnassus," the mythical mountain of Apollo and the Muses), is decidedly undermined by being constructed from a faux mosaic of minuscule tiles of color...