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inspired choices.(inspiration of influences of fictional and real characters on creativity of others)(Brief article)
Byline: Megan O'grady
In fiction, being a muse carries with it a certain luster. Consider Daisy, the ebullient flapper who inspires Gatsby's self-invention in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, or the eponymous nymphet of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, who gives rise to Humbert Humbert's feverish meditation on desire. Ulysses's bawdy, acid-tongued Molly Bloom was modeled on Nora Barnacle, James Joyce's real-life wife. The most sartorially innovative is surely the tomato-can-brassiere-wearing Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven of Rene Steinke's Holy Skirts. Then there's Griet, the heroine of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, who manages to win Vermeer's respect and the earrings. The reality, of course, is more grim. The subject of Odile ...
- Lee-Miller named new director of Transportation Department Office of Commercial...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 17, 1989 700+ words
LEE-MILLER NAMED NEW DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION...Samuel K. Skinner today named Stephanie Lee-Miller as director of the Department of Transportation...said: "I am pleased to have Stephanie Lee-Miller heading the Office of Commercial Space...
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...The legend of art and war photographer Lee Miller (1907-1977) perhaps began when Elizabeth...cadre of renowned woman photographers, Lee Miller has become an icon and mythic figure...explored in an exhibition - "The Art of Lee Miller" - at the Philadelphia Museum of Art...
- Commercial launch sites needed, says Lee-Miller. (Stephanie Lee-Miller,...
- Newspaper article from: Satellite News June 18, 1990 700+ words
...COMMERCIAL LAUNCH SITES NEEDED, SAYS LEE-MILLER ORLANDO, FLA. - The Department of Transportation...commercial space launch facilities. Stephanie Lee-Miller told attendees at the Florida High Technology...over one hundred launches per year." Lee-Miller said the United States' 2 major ...
- Commercial launch sites needed says Lee-Miller. (Stephanie Lee-Miller)
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily June 11, 1990 700+ words
...commercial space launch facilities. Stephanie Lee-Miller told attendees of the Florida High Technology...over one hundred launches per year." Lee-Miller said the U.S.'s two major launch...arithmetic." In 1991, for example, Lee-Miller said DOT anticipates that some 40 commercial...
- Heart of darkness: the photography of Lee Miller.(Art)(Philadelphia Museum of...
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Tushnet, Eve March 14, 2008 700+ words
Photographer Lee Miller's life was both charmed and haunted...less happy past. This is not the best Lee Miller retrospective imaginable. Some of...to better advantage in The Lives of Lee Miller, a well-chosen selection by Miller...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Cristina Del Sesto February 5, 1989 700+ words
...have predicted the turns photographer Lee Miller's career took. The gutsy, fearless...and chief curator of the exhibit, "Lee Miller: Photographer," which opens to the public Saturday. "Lee Miller: Photographer" includes 96 images...
- Lee Miller's War.
- Magazine article from: PSA Journal August 1, 1992 700+ words
Lee Miller's War compiles the photographs and written accounts of Lee Miller's experiences as one of two female combat photographers...Allied troops in the last months of World War II. Lee Miller began her career as a Vogue fashion model in the...
- The most beautiful navel in Paris.(Lee Miller: A Life)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Zox-Weaver, Annalisa September 1, 2006 700+ words
Lee Miller: A Life By Carolyn Burke New York...426 pp, $35.00, hardcover With Lee Miller: A Life, biographer Carolyn Burke renders...of visual material is staggering: the Lee Miller Archive holds some 40,000-plus images...
