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...last time the federal government funded a scientific undertaking of this magnitude was the Apollo project...

Author: By Robin Kolodny, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MAPPING THE HUMAN GENOME: | 2/26/1992 | See Source »

...partner Apollo Investment Fund shelled out $320 million for the studio -- and perhaps more important, its 3,000 half-hours of cartoon programming. Going back to the 1950s, the treasure trove could form the basis of a long-standing Turner dream: a worldwide all-cartoon channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Yabba-Dabba Deal! | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...They do too little, too slowly. Such immobility is simply impermissible these days." Critics take the dilapidated condition of the Bolshoi Theater (which also houses the equally straitened Bolshoi Ballet) as symbolic. Spots have darkened its walls; danger signs hang here and there; the sculpture of a chariot-borne Apollo on its roof stands within a protective cage awaiting repairs. THE BOLSHOI BUILDING ((IS)) ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE, warned a headline in the Moscow newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Bolshoi Adapt to the Times? | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

Still, Kelly Matthews should be commended for her dead-pan Athena, Branion for his studied assimilation of the roles of both Orestes and Apollo, and Robyn Fass for her humorous Clytemnestra. If nothing else one can be grateful to Tan, his crew and the cast for bringing Mayer's work to the public...

Author: By Alexander E. Marashian, | Title: Concept is not Enough | 3/22/1991 | See Source »

Throughout the play, Tan resists placing his characters in simple, archetypical roles, cultivating instead the psychological complexities and hidden motivations that inform the resolution of Aeschylus' own version. Who would have suspected that Apollo would have to use an erotic tango dance to persuade Athena to side with him on Orestes' behalf...

Author: By Alexander E. Marashian, | Title: Concept is not Enough | 3/22/1991 | See Source »

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