Inscrutable red and yellow bunkers, and seedy businesses beguilingly decked out in apogees of Outsider design.
But in 2012, in the apogee of the Greek crisis, Syriza took the political establishment by storm, polling close to 27% in the June general elections and eclipsing the social democrats to become the second-largest party in the country.
Armed with carnations and roses, the gashte ershad rewarded those women sporting the best hijab in town.The apogee of "good hijab" in the Islamic republic is the chador, a long black cloak that reveals only the face.
Recounting how trees and tapestries, gardeners and writers were sometimes forcibly removed from one palace to the other and how their meanings were transformed in the process she discovers in the apogee of classicism the remnants of a repressed cultural vision.
The debate on the naming of the state song in 1978 reached an apogee of tongue in cheek when then State Senator Joseph Lieberman proposed "Boola Boola," the fight song of his alma mater Yale University, be the official state song.
As a community event, this project distracts us from the extent to which the contemporary city has become a memorial of itself in 1928, the apogee of Art Deco Manhattan.
"Saturday Night Fever," the movie released in 1977, marked the apogee of disco, a lucrative moment in pop that quickly generated a backlash, a record-business crash and a widespread repudiation.
That, in brief, is the apogee of the use of philosophy of language in philosophy of law.
Nonetheless, Venice effectively responded to the new competition and attained in the 16th century its apogee of commercial importance; in most of its surviving monuments, this beautiful city still reflects its 16th-century prosperity.
And since such bacteria need oxygen, their presence suggested that photosynthesising organisms must once have lived on Mars too.This discovery, announced in 1996, was the apogee of Mr Friedmann's long search for life in the most daunting places possible.
