Word: musee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early inventors-Eli Whitney, Edison, the Wright brothers- were tinkerers with tunnel vision. They could afford to be; life was not seen as a continuum in those days. Today's inventors must be true scientists, responsible to the public health as well as to the private muse. The country has grown wary of innovation, of simply doing things because they are possible. Indeed, some people will regard the good ship Columbia with squinting eyes, and long for the simplicity and ro mance of the past...
...victims-not even Picasso's distorted women-actually took their outrage or wounded vanity to court until 1975, in New York City, when two artists, Jacob Silberman and Anthony Siani, sued a colleague, Paul Georges, for libel. The reason: Georges' painting The Mugging of the Muse (right), which includes two sinister figures wearing masks that, the plaintiffs claimed, were their own faces. Complained Siani: "It lessens me in front of my peers because if an artist attacks the muse, he's killing art." A civil court jury agreed this fall, awarding the plaintiffs $30,000 each. Georges...
...first important American poet was a woman: Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), who produced remarkable poems in addition to eight children. Her publisher billed her as "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America," but she herself made clear the cost of attaining that exalted title...
...cloud of confusion (which seems to be the muse in this saga) still hovers over the PBH case--and the cases of the Student Assembly, Women's Clearinghouse, Room 13, Radcliffe Choral Society, and various other groups that have managed to get materials into the packets at one time or another. Law, in her memo to Fox about the problem, epitomizes the atmosphere. "For example," she wrote, "I accepted the Student Assembly this fall because I was told it had been authorized by Dean Epps. (My information was apprently incorrect...
Since New York Air had trouble obtaining scarce landing rights at Washington's National Airport, Muse decided to fly his carrier into Tulsa, St. Louis and other less congested Midwestern and Southern cities. Says he: "Our target is where big airlines have cut back, the heartland of Middle America." The new airline will fly fuel-efficient DC-9 Super 80s, and Muse says that he will slash prices by up to 66%. Fares will be low enough to "get people off the interstate highways and onto airplanes." And what about stewardess outfits? A slight smirk ripples through Muse...