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John Schabel Charlie Victor Romeo Caught Fly me to the moon Angel painter I'll fly away
John Schabel
John Schabel's "Passengers" are black and white portraits of airplane passengers taken from outside planes still on the runway. His fascination, Schabel says, grew out of that moment in time when passengers are powerless to do nothing but wait for take off.

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Charlie Victor Romeo
Is real life the stuff of drama? New York City's independent theater troupe, Collective Unconscious, recreates the events preceding an airplane crash using excerpts from actual cockpit voice recorders.

Charlie Victor Romeo
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Caught
"Caught" is choreographer David Parsons' signature piece and one of the most dramatic examples of a dancer in flight. With only a strobe light illuminating the stage, the dancer seems to float as if "caught" suspended in mid-air.

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Fly Me to the Moon
Since the dawn of civilization, we have looked up into the skies and wondered what it would be like to travel to the outer limits of our universe. EGG takes a journey to the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History.

Fly Me to the Moon
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Angel Painter
Come to Gainesville, Florida and meet outsider artist Alyne Harris. She paints angels. Why? Because it gives her joy. Black angels, white angels, she paints them all "because there's no particular color up there in heaven."

Angel Painter
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I'll Fly Away
Ethel Caffie-Austin, leader of the Rimson Memorial Church of God in Christ's gospel choir in Charleston, West Virginia, performs "I'll Fly Away" on a Sunday morning like any other, leaving no doubt that gospel music soothes the soul and sends the spirit flying.

I'll Fly Away
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