Word: musee
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...prize selection committee and the current curator of Houghton’s department of printing and graphic arts, which was created by Hofer. Massey, a lover of music and a student in historical musicology, snagged the $2,000 first prize for his collection “Visual Muse,” which consists of images of music and musicians from 1800 to the present that he and his partner Gabe Boyers have gathered over the years. Massey said that when he first heard about this award, he suggested to Boyers, “Why don’t we just...
DIED. Lamar Muse, 86, fiery, outspoken first leader of Southwest Airlines who, through a series of bold, often witty marketing innovations, turned the fledgling, debt-ridden company into a successful competitor; in Dallas. Skirting federal regulations on interstate travel by operating within Texas, he famously slashed fares (flights between several key cities were $20); dressed flight attendants in hot pants; and, to beat a competitor trying to horn in on his cheap prices, kept the low fare--and threw in a free bottle of whiskey...
...cute guy in section when you remember—shit! You forgot to submit your paper to your TF! No problem, before long it’s zooming through cyberspace onto her desktop as an email attachment. You breathe a sigh of relief. Life used to be tough, you muse while gazing affectionately at your new best friend and faithful tagalong: the iPhone. A chic mobile, a widescreen mp3 player, a two-megapixel camera and an Internet browser all in one, the $500 iPhone is just slightly larger than a current-generation iPod. Even more than the BlackBerrys popping...
Alternating between first person and third person omniscient narration, Sharp vividly renders the inner lives of both 20th century legends—Balanchine and his muse Suzanne Farrell, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, among others—and her own fictive characters—primarily figured as members of the real NYCB or American Ballet Theater (ABT). She lends an aura of verisimilitude to her readers’ vicarious participation in the lived experience of dance...
...dramatic landscape of England's Lake District has long acted as muse to artist and writer alike. It's easy to imagine nature enthusiast and future [an error occurred while processing this directive] poet laureate William Wordsworth getting inspired during his visits in the early 19th century, rent in hand, to the home of his landlord on Lake Windermere's northeastern shore. That same house is now the Samling, an 11-bedroom hotel nestled in 27 hectares of pastures and woodland with gorgeous views of the lake. No wonder the Georgian house is occasionally hired out exclusively (and discreetly...