Word: muses
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...older woman-there are overlong, superficial ruminations and cop-out digressions on the mechanics and nature of memory itself. Finally, in due meandering course, Worthington remembers a first wife who two-timed him and a second wife who two-timed life by committing suicide. But mostly he prefers to muse about aristocratic ancestors or recall some of his own flighty experiences as an Air Force officer in wartime Washington...
...including a passing parade of models. One who caught his eye was a graceful seamstress who arrived for work one day wearing a scarf designed to protect and cleverly disguise the fact that she had the mumps. And then there was his mother, who lived to be 90. "My muse," he called her. He painted her bent over the sewing machine, stitching before the window, feeding her grandchild, and watering the flowers. Her hair changed color over the decades, the wrinkles deepened in her face, and still Vuillard never tired of portraying...
Path wandering, I muse...
...that night, Enderby returns to England and is resurrected from an attempted suicide by a psychiatrist named Wapenshaw. Taking his mother's maiden name, Hogg, Enderby renounces poetry and assumes a new life as a bartender at Piggy's Sty. But try as he may, he cannot deny his muse, and she accompanies him on a desperate flight to Tangier after the murderer of a pop singer has pushed his smoking gun into bystander Enderby's hand. Disguised as an Arab beggar, Enderby plans a real crime--the murder of Rawliffe, a fellow poet who has stolen the plot...
...Brooklyn's depressed Bedford-Stuyvesant area, the Brooklyn Children's Museum took over a building that had formerly housed a pool hall and an auto showroom, last month set up a neighborhood branch called MUSE. Its exhibits invite participation; there are African drums to pound, African masks that can be worn, and a display of exotic headgear with a sign, "Please...