Word: musing
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...sings. She dances. She plays the piano, plunks the guitar, pumps the accordion. She recently won raves for two movies, Siberiada and Five Evenings. Now Actress Lyudmila Gurchenko, 44, is an author acclaimed for her autobiography, published in a literary monthly, about growing up in war-torn Kharkov. The muse moved her while she and film friends watched Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon. "They kept saying how marvelous the Tatum O'Neal character was. So I said, 'Listen, guys, I was the same type of child, only I grew up with German troops and hunger and death...
...debate whether Star Wars and The Empire should be classified as science fantasy or science fiction, but it is interesting to muse about how earth colonies across the galaxy in A.D. 2980 will react to these films...
Transit charts six major characters as they journey through the space of thirty years. They intersect, gravitate around each other, spin away into lonely emptiness while a dozen minor characters drift around these central constellations. They construct galaxies and float apart with the humble wonder we feel when we muse on the infinity of the sky, in oceanic silence, and trace the impersonal yet poignant movement of the stars. Hazzard sees things in two planes, as both personal emotion and tragedy, life through the wrong end of a telescope, transparently removed--almost mythologized...
...lonely spirits in stultifying small towns seeking the mind's freedom and the heart's release. Director Vivian Matalon has sensed that aspect of the play, and his cast, wondrous in its ensemble excellence, embodies it. Whether one goes to the theater to laugh, to cry, to muse or to learn, Morning's at Seven satisfies all four appetites. -T. E. Kalem
...Though the marriage was not permanent (nor were later ones to the fabulously rich speculator Alfred Edwards and the fashionable painter José-Maria Sert), the pattern of Misia's life was established in her 20s. She was surrounded by artists, for whom she was companion, model and muse. "Misia never claimed to be a sexual athlete; that was for the ladies of the demimonde," write Gold and Fizdale. "Still, she took it for granted that not only was her husband in love with her, but so, more or less, were all his friends. It was the thing...