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...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...
...Angeles. "After I got engaged, I changed my mind about fashion," says Lubov, 38, now creative director for BCBG Max Azria, Max Azria and Max Azria Atelier, "as long as Max understood my needs as a designer." It's not surprising to hear Azria call Lubov his muse, whereas she speaks with a bit more nuance. "Max creates the vision, and I make sure it's executed," she says. "We're a great team as long as his office is on the other end of the building. There are days when we don't agree." Lubov is hailed...
...Where can a person find truth and justice in this land?,'" says Ngugi. "So Moi sent the police to arrest him." Realizing the character was fictional, they arrested the book instead and Matigari was banned. It was 10 years before Ngugi could bring himself to write another novel. "The muse seemed to desert me," he says, giggling softly. "She was scared after what they did to Matigari." When she finally returned, she led him into a novel that would take the next eight years to finish. Originally published in Ngugi's mother tongue, Gikuyu, and now translated into English, Wizard...