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☆ Faith Ringgold Dies at 93; Wove Black Life Into Quilts and Children’s Books
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Margalit Fox | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Faith Ringgold, a multimedia artist whose pictorial quilts depicting the African American experience gave rise to a second distinguished career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books, died on Saturday at her home in Englewood, N.J. She was 93. Her death was confirmed by Emily Alli, who is helping with Ms. Ringgold’s estate. For more than half a century, Ms. Ringgold explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media, among them painting, sculpture, mask- and dollmaking, textiles and performance art. She was also a longtime advocate of bringing the work of Black people and women into the collections of major American museums.

Persons: Faith Ringgold, Emily Alli, Ringgold Locations: Englewood , N.J

☆ Juli Lynne Charlot, Creator of the Poodle Skirt, Dies at 101
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Margalit Fox | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What’s a nice Jewish viscountess to do when she has a title but no money, a party invitation but no clothes and a pair of scissors but no sewing skills? Invent the poodle skirt, of course. Ms. Charlot, a New York native who died at her home in Tepoztlán, Mexico, on Sunday at 101, had been a Hollywood singer before her marriage in the mid-1940s to a viscount, or British nobleman. The result, the embellished circle skirt, was ubiquitous throughout the 1950s, bought in droves by women and, in particular, adolescent girls. With its voluminous fabric that flared prettily when the wearer twirled, it was just the thing for a sock hop.

Persons: Juli Lynne Charlot, Charlot, jaunty Locations: New York, Tepoztlán, Mexico, Hollywood

☆ Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at 88
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Margalit Fox | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Peter Schickele, an American composer whose career as a writer of serious concert music was often eclipsed by that of his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific and mercifully fictional P.D.Q. Bach, died on Tuesday at his home in Bearsville, a hamlet outside Woodstock, N.Y. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Karla Schickele, who said his health had declined after a series of infections last fall. Under his own name, Mr. Schickele (pronounced SHICK-uh-lee) composed more than 100 symphonic, choral, solo instrumental and chamber works, first heard on concert stages in the 1950s and later commissioned by some of the world’s leading orchestras, soloists and chamber ensembles. He also wrote film scores and musical numbers for Broadway.

Persons: Peter Schickele, antic, Bach, Karla Schickele, Schickele, Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte, Marie Organizations: Broadway, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Quartet, Minnesota Opera Locations: American, Bearsville, Woodstock, N.Y

Here are the meanings of the 10 hardest words that have also been used in New York Times articles. 1. tumid — swollen, or bombastic:His once-tumid imagination now sagged like an empty skin. Also some good tippet nippers for fishing, new deck boots and a Fenix flashlight to replace the one someone stole from my desk. Some of the species have declined even more: Meadow pipit populations, for example, fell by 68 percent. — Book Review: Margalit Fox’s ‘Riddle of the Labyrinth’ (June 14, 2013)The list of the week’s easiest words:

Persons: Boss Christine, ghosted, tippet, Lucy, Gabrielle Hamilton’s, Cook, Fontaine, tempi, “ I’ve, ”, “, — Rossini, Ramy Youssef, — Dave Chappelle, tutee, —, nonclinical —, logogram, Margalit Fox’s ‘ Riddle Organizations: New York Times, San Francisco Opera, West Bank, The, Health Locations: New, France, Israel, America, Britain, The New York

☆ Barney and Betty Hill’s UFO abduction story was more about racism than aliens, a new book says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

That sound of unimaginable terror is what a psychiatrist recorded when he put a man named Barney Hill under hypnosis in his office one day in 1964. Estelle Parsons and James Earl Jones in a scene from "The UFO Incident," a 1975 television movie based on the Hills' alleged encounter. Both Hills recalled the encounter under hypnosis, but Barney Hill grew terrified reliving the event. … God, I’m scared!”The Hills’ story changed the way people regarded alien encounters. Barney Hill died of a stroke in 1969, and Betty continued to claim that the abduction occurred.

Persons: Barney Hill, Hill, Darth Vader, Betty, Adam, James Earl Jones, Matthew Bowman, Estelle Parsons, Shutterstock Bowman, Barney Hill’s, ”, ” Bowman, Betty Hill, ” Christopher Bader, ” Margalit Fox, John Blake Organizations: CNN, Civil Rights, ”, NAACP, Hills, California’s Chapman University, The New York Times Locations: New Hampshire, America, United States

☆ Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Margalit Fox | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One, Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting from Chicago, died four days later, at 14, in one of the most epochal murders in American history. Now Ms. Bryant has died, at 88. Megan LeBoeuf, the chief investigator for the Calcasieu Parish coroner’s office in Louisiana, sent a statement confirming the death of Ms. Bryant, more recently known as Carolyn Bryant Donham, on Tuesday in Westlake, a small city in southern Louisiana. Ms. LeBoeuf did not provide further information. With Ms. Donham’s death, the truth of what happened that August day may never be clear.

☆ Barry Humphries (Dame Edna to You, Possums) Is Dead at 89
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Margalit Fox | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Oh, Possums, Dame Edna is no more. To be unflinchingly precise, Barry Humphries, the Australian-born actor and comic who for almost seven decades brought that divine doyenne of divadom, Dame Edna Everage, to delirious, dotty, disdainful Dadaist life, died on Saturday in Sydney. His death was confirmed by the hospital where he had spent several days after undergoing hip surgery. For generations after the day she first sprang to life on the Melbourne stage, Dame Edna reigned, bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, one of the longest-lived characters to be channeled by a single performer. She toured worldwide in a series of solo stage shows and was ubiquitous on television in the United States, Britain, Australia and elsewhere.

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