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...The muse picks certain people, I feel it in myself, the muse looked out for me, there were moments when life was dicey.” The desire for a life in art came “very very very very early”, in childhood....
...for a muse, by a man who did that a lot”....
...Seated in a loggia, framed by a crimson curtain, brushes and palette to hand, she is at once creator and muse....
...help”); he muses on the business he works for, the ridiculously named “boutique realty entity” House Whisperers; and he fumbles on through “senior moments” like forgetting what couscous is called on a trip...
...Back on safer ground, they muse on the joy of collecting....
...Our view is incomplete, but we can guess from what we can see — “A MUSE” and half of a “U” — that we are looking at a museum....
...She has served less as muse than as alter ego and soul mate; as portrait subject she remains studiously unrevealed....
...Bell’s book is at times frank, perceptive and wryly amusing. He lists his many mis-steps navigating China’s bureaucratic norms....
...If war was Homer’s teacher, the sea was his muse, and it called out to him throughout his life. In 1883, he moved to a lonesome cottage overlooking the coast at Prouts Neck, Maine....
...The residence was the subject of a 2017 documentary, Integral Man, as well as the muse of a work by the Hong Kongese-Canadian composer and pianist Matt Poon....
...As the film drifts into gunplay, Nick ruefully muses that it needs to be more of an action blockbuster. Though the peekaboo with reality is the selling point, some glimpses are surprisingly frank....
...“A fantasy future project of mine is to create some kind of physical environment for my work,” muses Morgan-Cox of a potential collaboration with her friend and mentor. Tassie nods in agreement....
...“Camilla’s really just a very unflinching person,” Frank muses. Royal charitable duties were once performed with an aloof air of noblesse oblige; Diana changed all that....
...Coles muses on the ironies of posthumous fame by the gravestone of the real “Holy Willie”. Burns “was not a man who could keep his britches on,” observes Coles....
...Outbreak (Bantam, £12.99), by BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, is the third outing for Luke Carlton, an operative for MI6....
...Modern Look ends with a looped slideshow of “Black and White Things”, a spectacular portfolio by Faurer’s friend and fellow Brodovitchian, Robert Frank....
...For the show’s American co-creator Frank Spotnitz (whose previous credits include The X-Files and The Man in the High Castle), the challenge lay in finding a clear narrative....
...The second is a frank declaration, again in de Waal’s hand, returning us to the work’s genesis: “I’m making this for my great-grandfather Viktor, who saw his library stolen.”...
...Sir Roy remains winningly frank about his lack of garden experience. He was a Londoner, not a countryman....
...It wasn’t some sort of wishy-washy, waiting-for-the-muse-to-take-you nonsense.”...
...The white-haired wrinkly voicing his story is Irish-American Frank Sheeran (De Niro)....
...”) and Frank Sinatra, to whom he was introduced by Ava Gardner....
...Her frank depictions of life inside Berlin’s cabaret scene are a reminder that women, far from being passive muse-like figures, were themselves dynamic and boundary-pushing participants....
...“I grew up with paintings by Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, as my grandmother was a great friend of theirs,” she says....
...Lorna Wishart — older, married, a sophisticated muse — perfectly played into his ideal of a transgressive life: she brought him a dead heron as a gift; he painted it....
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