Shulamit Ran, the second woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for music, was perhaps the most well-known of the quartet although her piece, Mirage, for five players, seemed to me a minor work from a great composer.
Funnell, who withdrew the slightly lame Redesigned on Saturday, concluded her Badminton involvement for the year by pulling out her other horse, Mirage d'Elle, ahead of the cross-country.
Wasn't that bound to happen, and what on earth, she thought, as she watched everyone walking past her into the mirage, was taking so long?
Prior to her hire at Mirage, the producer had spent years looking for a suitable screenwriter – someone who was "equally strong in the areas of satire and romance" and could think in Austen's language "almost as naturally as he or she could think in the language of the twentieth century".
When she went to pick up her 7-year-old daughter at school, the girl thought her mother was a mirage.
On the hottest day of the year so far, Daryl Hannah appears like a mirage outside her Paris hotel.
The mirage of her romance dissipates swiftly, but not before Helen rashly announces it in a letter to her sister, Margaret Hayley Atwelll).
Her forthcoming EP, Rope Mirage, deals in the kind of nocturnal starkness you'd expect of a grimy south London home studio.
For reality TV star Jenny McCarthy, it meant a Friday night hosting at 1 OAK Nightclub at the Mirage with her new husband Donnie Wahlberg.
