Word: musee
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...ubiquitous best seller The Da Vinci Code, but her clients' interest was real and surprisingly keen. Some of the novel's "hard-core followers," McBreen remembers, came to the Louvre equipped with highlighted passages and well-researched questions. McBreen sensed a business opportunity for her tour company, Paris Muse. In February, she started to offer Cracking the Da Vinci Code tours: 2 1/2 hour sessions exploring the numerous (and sometimes misleading, McBreen points out) Louvre references in the novel. The business exploded, and Paris Muse, tel: (33-6) 7377 3352, now books about 100 Da Vinci Code tours a month...
...night was Triumph the Insult Comic Dog of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. The snarky pooch was missing his trademark cigar, perhaps confiscated by security in strict adherence to the Garden’s no-smoking rules. Triumph’s muse Robert Smigel kept a tight grip on his charge—the puppet never left his arm. Smigel, a longtime “Saturday Night Live” writer and co-creator of “The Ambiguously Gay Duo,” had collected a few Midwestern guests...
...book, "like some farmer being paid not to grow wheat," writing essays and doing cover art for The New Yorker rather than doing new comix. Then came September 11, 2001, which, as it did for much of the rest of the world, changed everything. "Disaster is my muse," writes Spiegelman, who began a series of strips on the subject, In the Shadow of No Towers, soon thereafter. Unfortunately, their only American appearance was in a hard-to-find Jewish-American newspaper. Now, at last, Pantheon has collected the ten large-format strips into a fascinating, if all too short book...
...time. Working the crowd Monday night was Triumph the Insult Comic Dog of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The snarky pooch was missing his trademark cigar, perhaps confiscated by security in strict adherence to the Garden’s no-smoking rules. Triumph’s muse Robert Smigel kept a tight grip on his charge—the puppet never left his arm. Smigel, a longtime Saturday Night Live writer and co-creator of “The Ambiguously Gay Duo,” had collected a few Midwestern guests to speak with him about...
Serving on the jury changed my life. I could do a sociological study on the race, gender and sexual orientation of the jurors and how it played out during deliberations; I could rant about how important a good lawyer and judge are for justice to work, or muse on how my impressions of the jurors changed when we started deliberating...