Margalit Fox's Blog, page 42
January 23, 2014
Chet Curtis, Half of Married News Team, Dies at 74
Mr. Curtis and his wife and co-anchor on WCVB, Channel 5, Natalie Jacobson, delivered the news nightly to Bostonians for 18 years before they split up.
January 18, 2014
Chryssa, Artist Who Saw Neon’s Potential as a Medium, Dies at 79
Chryssa, a Greek-born sculptor, began incorporating neon into her constructions in America in the 1960s, in time mastering the technical difficulties of the medium.
January 14, 2014
Madeline Arakawa Gins, Visionary Architect, Is Dead at 72
Ms. Gins and her husband, the artist Arakawa, advanced theories of design they believed could make mortality a thing of the past.
Madeline Arakawa Gins, Visionary, Is Dead at 72
Ms. Gins and her husband, the artist Arakawa, advanced theories of design they believed could make mortality a thing of the past.
January 13, 2014
Sam Berns, 17, Public Face of a Rare Illness, Is Dead
Sam’s life with progeria, a genetic disorder resulting in rapid premature aging, was the subject of a documentary film shortlisted for an Academy Award. Sam was a riot of enthusiasms: for math and science, comic books, scouting (he was an Eagle Scout), playing the drums and Boston-area sports teams.
January 12, 2014
Madeline Arakawa Gins, Visionary Architect, Dies at 72
Ms. Gins and her husband, the artist Arakawa, advanced theories of design they believed could make mortality a thing of the past.
January 11, 2014
Judy Protas, Writer of Slogan for Levy’s Real Jewish Rye, Dies at 91
Ms. Protas knew that a campaign spent selling rye bread to Jews would be a campaign squandered in preaching to the converted.
January 9, 2014
Amiri Baraka, Polarizing Poet and Playwright, Dies at 79
Mr. Baraka’s work was widely anthologized, and he was also long famous as a political firebrand, with critical opinion divided in every arena.
January 7, 2014
Elizabeth Jane Howard, Novelist of Mid-Century British Life, Dies at 90
Ms. Howard’s five-part series, The Cazalet Chronicles, traces a British family before, during and after World War II.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, British Novelist, Dies at 90
Ms. Howard’s five-part series, The Cazalet Chronicles, traces a British family before, during and after World War II.
