Word: musing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Muse...
After I first heard the song “Unintended” by Muse last year, I was in a frenzy to find as much Muse music as I could. After going through 2001’s Origin of Symmetry breathlessly, I braced myself for disappointment from their new album, Absolution. But to my great shock, I’m not disappointed at all. Each track is pure Muse, the beautiful voice of Matt Bellamy flows over pounding piano chords and arpeggios, drums and fantastic bass rifts. “Sing for Absolution” is one of the best...
...everyone from John Sayles to Steven Soderbergh—is a must see for all ardent cinephiles. As always, Cassavetes braces his films in an emotional reality reminiscent of Italian neo-realism and the French new wave salted with American disappointment. This time he wrote and directed his muse, Gena Rowlands, to an Oscar nomination for her Woman in a emotionally fraught relationship with Peter Falk, trying to get a handle of what she’s allowed to be in the modern world. 7 p.m. The Harvard Film Archive...
Latin culture has joined hip-hop as a muse to the major players in fashion. Perry Ellis International announced the launch last month of two Latin-inspired and Latin-targeted women's sportswear lines: Cubavera, to be sold at major department stores, and Havanera Co., a private label to be manufactured for JCPenney. Each is an extension of a successful men's line bearing the same name. "Our Hispanic-focused brands brought in $23 million in revenue in fiscal 2003, and we expect to almost double that for fiscal 2004," says Perry Ellis International's CEO, George Feldenkreis. "At this...
...Whose Muse is replete with stories of the power of art museums when encumbered by commercialism and money. Neil MacGregor, who directs London’s British Museum, relates the powerful story of how, during World War II, the National Gallery—which had shipped its collection off to Wales for safekeeping—bowed to public pressure and hung a single Old Master painting each month...