Post Mortem Archive: Matt Schudel
Elisabeth Soderstrom
The great Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom has died at the age of 82. She was regarded as perhaps the finest singing actress on the operatic stage -- in other words, she had not just a beautiful voice, but a deeply expressive, nuanced acting talent as well. Soderstrom made her debut...
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November 22, 2009; 6:00 AM ET |
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Jeanne-Claude and Christo
Jeanne-Claude, the wife and collaborator of the artist Christo, has died at 74. She was a vibrant figure in the art world, and not just because of her hair, which was the color of a fire engine crossed with a pumpkin. I particularly enjoyed working on this obituary because I...
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November 20, 2009; 11:11 AM ET |
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Jack Miller, 'the perfect lawyer'
In 1961, Herbert J. "Jack" Miller Jr. received a call from Robert F. Kennedy, the new attorney general, asking if he would accept the job of running the Justice Department's criminal division. Miller, a Republican, could only blurt out, "Who, me?" Miller, who died Nov. 14 at age 85, carried...
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November 19, 2009; 10:53 AM ET |
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'America's greatest unknown writer'
Donald Harington died Nov. 7 at the age of 73. He grew up in Arkansas and lived in New England for two decades as a student and teacher of art history, while writing novels about his home state. In 1981, he moved back to Arkansas, where he spent the rest...
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November 14, 2009; 4:53 PM ET |
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Paul Bloom, Energy Department Lawyer
The Department of Energy was created in August 1977 by President Jimmy Carter, and Paul Bloom joined its staff as a special counsel in December of that year. He spent only three years as a lawyer for the department, but he had an outsized influence. Mr. Bloom, who died last...
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November 7, 2009; 12:31 PM ET |
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Roy DeCarava, photographer in black and white
Roy DeCarava, one of America's great photographers, has died at the age of 89. He spent much of his life documenting his native Harlem, only he wouldn't have used the term "documenting." He considered himself an artist whose medium happened to be photography and consciously steered away from the journalistic...
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October 30, 2009; 1:17 PM ET |
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