Word: apollos
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...whose Apollo (Jeff Branion) traverses the stage drinking a Pepsi and belching, has conceived his Red Eye for a new generation. While Tan's interpretation is intelligent and provocative, this production collapses under the weight of its concept...
...works of Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka and others. The viewer could imagine what demons stood behind them: the creeping Jew, the scheming Bolshevik, the Negro with his thick lips and saxophone, the slavering pervert. In here it was all David and the Apollo Belvedere, noble simplicity and calm grandeur as $ interpreted by such heirs of Michelangelo and Polyclitus as Hitler's favorite sculptor Arno Breker and his court painter Adolf Ziegler. What kind of Germany, the two shows asked, do you want...
...million. Founded in 1964 by a group headed by the late baseball great Jackie Robinson, Freedom was formed with a special mission: to serve the churches, businesses and homeowners in the African-American community who were typically denied credit by mainstream institutions. Freedom helped finance the renovation of the Apollo Theater, for instance. But like many banks in the '80s, Freedom sought to cash in on expanded powers granted under deregulation by moving aggressively into new lending areas, including risky commercial real-estate ventures. Analysts say the bank strayed too far from its home base. As a result, the number...
...long after Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," however, even as more Apollo flights were successfully plying the lunar route, the seeds of NASA's decline were planted. Some space historians go so far as to pinpoint the day it happened: March 7, 1970, when President Richard Nixon, preoccupied with Vietnam and budgetary problems, decided that it was not in the best interests of the U.S. to have a high-profile space program...
...MANKIND. By combining NASA footage of the Apollo missions and voice- over interviews with 13 astronauts who visited the moon, this award-winning documentary recreates the exhilarating experience of exploring earth's satellite from pre-launch to splashdown...