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@greenpnyt

Obits & features writer for The New York Times

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Fab 5 Freddy, was show No. 3, and his plan was to name the place the Serious Gallery. But by then Ms. Astor had bought stationery stamped “Fun” and had run out of money. Also, she said, “the name was so stupid it stuck.”nytimes.com/2024/04/15/art…

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When her mother heard that she was involved with Mr. Leary, she exclaimed: “Oh thank God! She’s going out with a Harvard professor!”nytimes.com/2024/05/02/us/…

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Her mantra, “Life is too short to stuff a mushroom,” became a feminist rallying cry, finding its way onto matchbooks, dish towels and throw pillows. nytimes.com/2024/05/22/boo…

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What propelled him in all his work was the origins of violence, the mysteries of nature and nurture. nytimes.com/2024/05/24/boo…

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Things you see in Newport harbor: A replica of a Viking ship being loaded onto a massive transport vessel for its trip to Norway newsradiori.iheart.com/content/2024-0…

Things you see in Newport harbor: A replica of a Viking ship being loaded onto a massive transport vessel for its trip to Norway newsradiori.iheart.com/content/2024-0…
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He was the Michelangelo of Missouri, and his adorable snub-nosed Precious Moments characters were the Beanie Babies of porcelain. nytimes.com/2024/06/01/bus…

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He was eloquent, erudite and prone to grand gestures. He was agile enough to perform a Fred Astaire chair trick --- though he sometimes overestimated his abilities. During a youthful fascination with firearms, he shot himself in the leg. nytimes.com/2024/06/16/us/…

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The title, “$20 Bill," was a reminder that Mr. Floyd died while being arrested for buying a pack of cigarettes with what might have been a counterfeit 20. nytimes.com/2024/06/26/art…

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“I didn’t know what I wanted to be, but I knew I wanted to be the kind of woman who was bold, took chances, and had adventures.”nytimes.com/2024/07/01/boo…

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“We are sprung from our own land, after all, and it is only fitting my brain should be built around a fault,” she wrote, punning a bit on California’s seismic tendencies. nytimes.com/2024/07/28/boo…

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“The landscape of his thoughts is enormous. How do you put him in one place? Is he a writer, is he an artist, is he a man, is he a woman, a painter, a sculptor? He defies efforts to catalog.” nytimes.com/2024/10/05/art…

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Her themes were deracination and otherness, and in precise and piquant prose she explored the costs, and the benefits, that accrued to outsiders and survivors like herself. nytimes.com/2024/10/07/boo…

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“Sally stood out, because back then there were so few church insiders who were speaking out. What made her so particularly unusual is that she spoke out for victims of color.”nytimes.com/2024/10/20/nyr…

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With a wink and a moue, or perhaps a side eye and a sly grin, she epitomized the playful ethos of early 1960s fashion and advertising photography.. nytimes.com/2024/10/24/art…

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“When you do break down and give in to whatever addiction you have, it comes back to you just how intolerable reality can be and why people take drugs in the first place.” nytimes.com/2024/10/25/art…

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She was a trompe l’oeil wizard. Her medium: ordinary craft paper. She used acrylic paint and gouache to simulate satin, silk and leather, the glint of light on a pearl, the delicate tracery of lace, the gold thread of an elaborate brocade. nytimes.com/2024/10/31/sty…

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“I believe that storytelling can be a strategy to help you make sense out of your life.”nytimes.com/2024/11/08/boo…

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Her patients shredded sofas, toilet paper and romantic partners. They galloped over their sleeping humans in the wee hours. They hissed at babies, dogs and other cats. They chewed electrical wires. They sulked in closets and went on hunger strikes. nytimes.com/2025/01/08/sty…