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...images that correspond to his obsessions. Some of the earliest pictures in the show, made soon after he finished studying art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1970, are images simply torn from magazines and reworked. Others are Polaroids of himself or Rock Singer Patti Smith, for years his muse, companion and fellow traveler through the New York City avant-garde...
...lousy at guitar." She admires the work of such fiction writers as Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers, and in tunes like Love Wore a Halo (on her strong- selling MCA album Little Love Affairs), Griffith can be heard trying to chase that same magnolia-and-nightshade muse to ground...
Raisa. Even in this semienlightened age, prominent women are somehow reduced to first names: Maggie, Cory, Nancy. Yet, despite her visibility, Raisa Gorbachev remains a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in sable. Is she the witty, cosmopolitan muse of glasnost, as some Westerners who have met her suggest? Or is she a hard-line ideologue, as others report? At a dinner with ^ the Reagans during the 1985 Geneva summit, Raisa launched into a lengthy and pedantic monologue on Soviet policy. After the Gorbachevs left, Nancy Reagan may have spoken for the other guests when she fumed, within hearing of then...
...that Dukakis has a clearly defined vision of his presidency. His disciplined, orderly mind has been understandably fixated on the task at hand -- winning the nomination -- and the rigors of a primary ; campaign leave little time for reflective thinking. On the few occasions that Dukakis has permitted himself to muse aloud about the White House, aides say, there was a puckish glee as he toyed with the ironies of being Governor of all the people. At a recent gubernatorial staff meeting, Dukakis joked that he imagined himself in the Oval Office telling Fred Salvucci, his current transportation secretary, that...
...autograph or cornered in a restaurant. Once an avid night owl, he now sends Rosensthiel to various events. "He stays in more, and I go out more," she says. "And people have got used to inviting him and getting me instead." She is often referred to as his muse, but she denies it. "I'm not a muse, but I amuse him," she says. "I'm not at his feet adoringly, but he can count on me for an objective opinion. Christian designs for a woman with a strong personality. For him I represent the humor and acidity...