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Worse, still, than losing a lover is losing a muse. Gently, lovingly, at other times with parasitic intention or vampiric intensity, men have turned to women for inspiration. F. Scott Fitzgerald had Zelda, Rodin had Camille Claudel, Picasso had a distaff palette; and Bob Dylan, one of the most intriguing, important, irascible figures in rock, had whom? On Time Out of Mind, his first CD of new, self-penned material in seven years and his most consistently rewarding album since the '70s, Dylan seems to be haunted by an imaginary, unnamed muse who has come and gone, leaving him loveless...
When it comes to playing God, of course, cloning the images of hapless dead celebrities is not in the same league as mucking with actual genes. But the question of CG humans does allow designers to muse like college freshmen about the nature of reality and still call it work. For instance, effects artists can give you long disquisitions on skin, its subtle sheen, the complexity of pores. To a computer, it's the little things that are most confusing about humanity. "The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make something look real," explains Muren. "When...
DIED. DORA MAAR, 89, Pablo Picasso's muse whose relationship with the painter inspired such works as Weeping Woman, 1937; in Paris...
...from Ringo's answering machine. But with the anthologies fading in the rearview mirror, we can finally hear some new music from McCartney. And although his Beatles glory years may be boxed and packaged along with those anthologies, McCartney's just released solo album, Flaming Pie (Capitol), shows his muse is still very much with...
...history and literature concentrator and I spent much of my sophomore and junior years competing academically with my friend and muse Susan McHenry '72 from Louisville, Ky. I had your much-better-than-average Harvard room-mates: Doug Harris, Clarence Smith and Greg Johnson...