Word: musee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little in love with Camille -- "I like watching you talk," is all he says -- but his job is his passion. Stooped over a violin, he has a delicate, confident touch. Camille, watching him work, must wonder: How would these hands care for a woman? In search of a muse, she pursues him, and he retreats. Camille thinks he is hiding what he feels. She is wrong: he is hiding what he doesn't feel. Stephane is the man with the hibernating heart...
...BOTTOM LINE: On his first album in 11 years, Fagen revives his muse -- and the quirky ghost of Steely...
...near future where "the narrator, instead of having a winged horse, has an environmentally correct car called a Kamakiri, which in Japanese means preying mantis." Typically, there are other, unspoken, allusions. Kamikaze for one -- the headlong, heedless plunge into a blaze of glory. But in this case Fagen's muse has emerged Phoenix-like from the ashes to resurrect the spirit of a brilliantly quirky collaboration...
...religion and its most sacred ritual the revenge- murder that he sees at the heart of Greek tragedy. Edward has a fanatical faith in the cleansing purity of blood vengeance. His wife Helen (Judi Dench), who holds deeply to a liberal belief in fairness and mercy, is his muse and counterbalance -- playing Athena, goddess of reason, to his Perseus, the mythological hero who killed the monstrous Gorgon. The play hinges on the passionate dialectic between these two, which turns ominous when it leaves the realm of playwriting and becomes a struggle for psychic survival...
...music is a fickle muse; anyone can lose the knack. But Jackson lost touch. Not as a performer -- his falsetto and his footwork still dazzle -- but with his audience. His career went stratospheric, and he went extraterrestrial. He seemed like one of the exotic animals he keeps in his backyard habitat. For some imaginary Madame Tussaud's, he transformed himself into his own waxed, blanched figure...