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Robert Moskowitz, Abstract Painter of New York’s Skyscrapers, Dies at 88 (Thu, 28 Mar 2024)
He depicted the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those paintings took on new meaning after 9/11.
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Linda Bean, an L.L. Bean Heir and a Conservative Donor, Dies at 82 (Thu, 28 Mar 2024)
A granddaughter of the celebrated Maine brand’s founder, she set out as an entrepreneur in her mid-60s and used her wealth to fund right-wing causes.
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Vernor Vinge, Innovative Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 79 (Thu, 28 Mar 2024)
He conceived an early version of cyberspace and predicted the “technological singularity,” a tipping point at which machines would become smarter than humans.
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Peter Eotvos, Evocative Modernist Composer and Conductor, Dies at 80 (Thu, 28 Mar 2024)
A tireless Hungarian advocate of contemporary music, he adapted literary sources both modern and classic, instilling his work with “inimitable character and pathos.”
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Joe Lieberman, U.S. Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate, Dies at 82 (Thu, 28 Mar 2024)
He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.
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Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 (Wed, 27 Mar 2024)
He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel.
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Kate Banks, Children’s Author Who Wrote About Grief, Dies at 64 (Thu, 28 Mar 2024)
She became an award-winning author of children’s books and young-adult novels despite debilitating health issues and the murder of her father.
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Stephen Adams, Who Made Yale Music School Tuition-Free, Dies at 86 (Wed, 27 Mar 2024)
A billionaire businessman and a late-blooming piano aficionado, he set a record with the anonymous $100 million gift that he and his wife gave the school.
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Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85 (Wed, 27 Mar 2024)
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.
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Overlooked No More: Henrietta Leavitt, Who Unraveled Mysteries of the Stars (Wed, 27 Mar 2024)
The portrait that emerged from her discovery, called Leavitt’s Law, showed that the universe was hundreds of times bigger than astronomers had imagined.
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Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92 (Tue, 26 Mar 2024)
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.
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Lee Berry, Black Panther in a ‘Radical Chic’ Time, Dies at 78 (Tue, 26 Mar 2024)
He was one of the prosecuted Panther 21 in New York, and his account of abuse in jail was a catalyst for Leonard Bernstein’s famous Park Avenue fund-raising party.
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Lisa Lane, Chess Champion Whose Reign Was Meteoric, Dies at 90 (Tue, 26 Mar 2024)
She was the first chess player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. But people focused more on her looks than on her ability.
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Shani Mott, Black Studies Scholar Who Examined Power All Around Her, Dies at 47 (Tue, 26 Mar 2024)
Her work looked at how race and power are experienced in America. In 2022, she filed a lawsuit saying that the appraisal of her home was undervalued because of bias.
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Ben Stern, Who Opposed a Nazi Rally in Illinois, Dies at 102 (Mon, 25 Mar 2024)
He was held prisoner in nine concentration camps. Decades later, he fought a battle against American Nazis that became a major free-speech case.
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Peter G. Angelos, Owner of the Baltimore Orioles, Dies at 94 (Mon, 25 Mar 2024)
Mr. Angelos oversaw 14 consecutive losing seasons, the worst run in franchise history, but the team is now a winning ball club about to be sold to new owners.
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David E. Harris, Trailblazing Airline Pilot, Is Dead at 89 (Tue, 26 Mar 2024)
In 1964, at the height of the civil rights movement, he became the first Black pilot for a major commercial airline in the United States.
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The Art of Babar (Sat, 23 Mar 2024)
For more than seven decades, Laurent de Brunhoff painted the adventures of the world’s most beloved elephant.
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Maurizio Pollini, Celebrated Pianist Who Defined Modernism, Dies at 82 (Mon, 25 Mar 2024)
His recordings of Beethoven and Chopin were hailed as classics, but his technical ability sometimes invited controversy.
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Artist Who Made Babar Famous, Dies at 98 (Tue, 26 Mar 2024)
After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.
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Lyn Hejinian, 82, Dies; Leading Light of the Language Poetry Movement (Wed, 27 Mar 2024)
A poet, publisher and professor, she channeled the revolutionary spirit and deconstructionist currents of the 1960s to challenge the conventions of poetry.
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Rose Dugdale, Heiress Turned Irish Independence Fighter, Dies at 82 (Mon, 25 Mar 2024)
Born into English wealth and Oxford-educated, she left it all behind for a life of radical and often violent activism.
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Norman Miller, German Refugee Who Helped Arrest a Top Nazi, Dies at 99 (Fri, 22 Mar 2024)
At 15, he escaped to England. At 20, he enlisted in the British Army and identified a German minister — whose roles included deporting Dutch Jews to labor camps — as he tried to flee.
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