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...festivities, lay stranded among the office’s state-of-the-art equipment. “It’s time to get our you-know-what together,” Fee said with Falwellian enthusiasm, fixing his gaze on the magazine’s muse, Caitlin B. McKee ’06. Next to her, Lowrey yawned and looked up, flicking an inch of white ash from her jet black cigarette onto Green’s vibrator...
...then Hardy had met the love of his life, his muse and the woman who transformed his dreams into marketable realities. She hated him at first. ?I was dating Jet Skiers at the time,? Cynthia Hardy, a nonnative, says with a laugh. But she too was looking for something more meaningful in Bali and eventually fell under the spell of John's vision for a more perfect world?a world in which beauty and luxury could be a solution, not just a commodity. It is her ability to pluck the pearls from John's million-ideas-a-minute...
...bunch of young actors was actually St. Elmo's Fire. This set of three films--The Breakfast Club, Weird Science and Sixteen Candles--should be named for writer-director John Hughes, who zeroed in on the light side of teen angst, or Molly Ringwald, his russet-haired muse. Hughes got the social pain of class rivalries, puppy lust and ineffectual parents, making it all funny and agreeable. Sixteen Candles is his Cinderella, The Breakfast Club his No Exit and Weird Science ... well, that one's just weird...
...book's six major characters, then repeats the cycle. Each set begins with Ray Beam, a burnt-out pop star of ten years ago whose descent from debauched musical godling to weird, unproductive recluse resembles that of Axl Rose. He suddenly seems to find his muse in Lily, a young Hispanic-American woman whose side of the story bookends each chapter cycle. Initially hired as Ray's personal assistant, Lily cautiously allows herself to be wooed by him in spite of such quirks as his carrying around a personal set of flatware to eat with...
...knocks you to the floor when a TF speaks a clear and coherent sentence in English, you know your expectations have fallen unreasonably low for what your $40,000/year is supposedly buying. Meanwhile, the humanities TF can usually speak English, but uses what verbal abilities they possess mostly to muse such pearls of wisdom as, “Great idea,” “Wow, that’s an excellent point,” and “Hmm, I don’t know…what do you think?” I once...