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Sir Michael Levey, 81, Art Historian, Is Dead

Posted: January 3rd, 2009, 5:48am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

The prolific and wide-ranging art historian presided over the expansion of the National Gallery in London as its director.

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François-Xavier Lalanne, Sculptor of Surrealistic Animals, Is Dead at 81

Posted: December 14th, 2008, 3:10am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Lalanne’s menagerie of surrealistic animal sculptures included a cast-iron baboon with a fireplace in its belly and giant turtledoves that doubled as armchairs.

Peter Vansittart, Prolific Writer of Historical Fiction, Is Dead at 88

Posted: October 15th, 2008, 5:18am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Vansittart breathed new life into the historical novel by mingling myth with modernity, and by injecting 20th-century preoccupations into historical settings.

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Nina Lawson, Tamer of the Met’s Wigs and Egos, Is Dead at 82

Posted: September 17th, 2008, 9:16am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

For more than 30 years, Miss Lawson ran the wig department at the Metropolitan Opera, tending the elaborate hairpieces of legendary singers.

Riitta Immonen, Clothing Designer, Dies at 90

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 5:05am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Ms. Immonen was a founder of the Finnish textile and clothing company Marimekko, and a designer of uniforms and ready to wear with a couture touch.

Jeannette Eyerly, Writer for Teenage Girls, Dies at 100

Posted: August 30th, 2008, 5:39am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Ms. Eyerly was one of the first writers for young adults to deal with themes like unwanted pregnancy, alcoholism and drugs.

John Russell, Art Critic for The Times, Dies at 89

Posted: August 25th, 2008, 8:17am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Russell contributed elegant, erudite art criticism for more than a half century to The Sunday Times of London and The New York Times.

Don Helms, 81, Who Put the Twang in the Hank Williams Songbook, Is Dead

Posted: August 17th, 2008, 6:41am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Helms, whose piercing, forceful steel guitar helped define the sound of nearly all of Hank Williams’s hits, also performed and recorded with a long list of other country greats.

Bernie Mac, Comic From TV and Film, Is Dead at 50

Posted: August 10th, 2008, 7:54am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Mac, an imposing stage presence with a line of scabrous insults, parlayed his success as a stand-up comedian into film roles.

Erik Darling Dies at 74; Musician in the Weavers

Posted: August 8th, 2008, 9:11am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Darling replaced Pete Seeger in the Weavers and was associated with two of folk music’s biggest commercial hits, “The Banana Boat Song” and “Walk Right In.”

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Eleanor Friede, 87, Is Dead; Edited 1970 Fable ‘Seagull’

Posted: July 25th, 2008, 7:54am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Ms. Friede was the book editor who sent “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” on its nonstop flight to publishing glory in 1970.

Books of The Times: In Northern Iraq, the Kurds Find Success Amid Struggle

Posted: April 9th, 2008, 5:10am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Quil Lawrence argues that the Iraq war has gone according to plan in the the northern Kurdish provinces, creating a semi-autonomous enclave that is pro-democracy and pro-American.

Books of The Times |: Neurotic Who Makes Scary World Her Banquet

Posted: March 19th, 2008, 6:00am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

In her new book Patricia Pearson searches for the roots of her affliction and finds a common thread connecting her traumas and her phobias, the fear of losing control, of being unable to cope.

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Books of The Times: Say What? It Wasn’t a Just War After All?

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 4:16am GMT by By WILLIAM GRIMES

Nicholson Baker’s muddled and often infuriating pacifist interpretation of the events leading to World War II sounds its single, solemn note incessantly: war is bad.