She was a pop songwriter freeing herself from burdens of the past, offering — as Kelela did — one idea of what the future might sound like.
While good-humored and not past offering the occasional unprintable sexual reference, Mr. Mailer spoke with a palpable sense of resignation if not disappointment.
Cartier, on the other hand, borrows from its own storied past, offering new designs that play on signature motifs and techniques -- panthers and jeweled mystery clocks, to name two of the house's iconic specialties.
Hamlet in Purgatory (2001) brings to life the author's sense of his Jewish past, offering an eloquent, self-exposing account, half wry, half tender, of death in his own family.
A deal with MOG, whose technology is admired but which has failed to gain much traction in the market, would allow Beats to fulfill a wish Mr. Iovine has expressed in the past: offering a phone-based subscription music service that delivers high-quality audio.
Because each of his novels reaches deeply into his past, offering "a bulletin on his own condition" invariably distorted by nostalgia and spite, Mr. Bellow has long had misgivings about anyone's relying on his fiction to get an accurate fix on his life.
