Word: musee
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...preparing a piece about Bergman and Saraband for the magazine, I was blessed to be able to speak with Ullmann. At 66, the Norwegian actress could comfortably retire after 40 years as an international star and the muse of Bergman in one of his most fertile filmmaking periods. Yet she has equaled her acting work by directing: four features, including two Bergman scripts, Private Confessions (1976) and Faithless (2000). A few Ullmann quotes illuminated the TIME story. Here is the meat of the interview, in which she speaks warmly about her life and career with Bergman and frankly about some...
With a few prominent exceptions, design in the computer industry has tended to be an afterthought, a matter of fashioning inoffensive shells for cathode-ray tubes. Larry Vollum, a recent California State University graduate, won the first Burroughs design competition with an approach of a deeper sort. His MUSE prototype, a small computer grafted onto a versatile high-tech music stand, is the equivalent of a word processor for composers, performers, students and teachers. It enables them to add, change or erase notes and chords at will, add rhythm accompaniment, and play back part or all of a composition...
...made it possible for entrepreneurs to launch new carriers and set their own prices. About 100 airlines now fly interstate routes, compared with 36 in 1978. In addition to People Express, many other new entries have had impressive takeoffs. New York Air is growing rapidly along the East Coast, Muse Air is doing well from its Houston base, and Jet America is carving out a niche with flights between California and the Midwest. Many others, though, have failed. After expanding too swiftly, Air Florida filed for bankruptcy in 1984 and then merged with Chicago's Midway Airlines. The casualties...
Bancroft got to exercise her hauteur in a few later films (The Turning Point, Agnes of God), but her longest and most piquant role was as wife, muse and keeper of Mel Brooks. They made an implausible, endearing couple: the crazy Brooklyn boy and the Bronx girl who, when they let her, could work miracles. --By Richard Corliss
Through the medium of music, Wiprud also immortalizes the experiences that have served as his muse...