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Appalled by the food options available to those seeking to lose weight, he developed a form of nouvelle cuisine for dieters at a spa in southwestern France. Michel Guérard, a [...]

Appalled by the food options available to those seeking to lose weight, he developed a form of nouvelle cuisine for dieters at a spa in southwestern France. Michel Guérard, a [...]

Womanly power was a recurring theme of her work, expressed in idiosyncratic sculpture and paintings that did not align with prevailing trends. June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration [...]

Womanly power was a recurring theme of her work, expressed in idiosyncratic sculpture and paintings that did not align with prevailing trends. June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration [...]

He moved American art away from Abstract Expressionism toward cool minimalism. His explorations of color and form were endlessly discussed and constantly on exhibit. Frank Stella, whose laconic pinstripe ''black [...]

In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering. Helen Vendler, one of the leading poetry critics in the United States, with a reputation-making [...]

In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering. Helen Vendler, one of the leading poetry critics in the United States, with a reputation-making [...]

Though he played a naïve buffoon onstage, he was the driving force behind the folk-singing duo's groundbreaking TV show. Tom Smothers, the older half of the comic folk duo the [...]

He emerged in the 1950s as a promising young writer exploring the emotional lives of ordinary men and women and the complexities of Jewish identity in America. Herbert Gold, a [...]

Byline: William Grimes Hailed in the 1960s for her dynamic performances with her first husband, Ike, she became a sensation as a recording artist, often echoing her personal struggles in [...]

Hailed in the 1960s for her dynamic performances with her first husband, Ike, she became a sensation as a recording artist, often echoing her personal struggles in her songs. Tina [...]

Su incomparable voz ronca, magnetismo sexual y energía la convirtieron en una intérprete en vivo inolvidable y en una de las artistas de mayor éxito discográfico de todos los tiempos. [...]

Byline: William Grimes On New Yorker covers and elsewhere, he lampooned the rich by forecasting a plutocratic fantasyland - or, as he put it, 'looking back to see how yesterday [...]

Byline: William Grimes His rich baritone voice and songs like 'Sundown,' 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' and 'If You Could Read My Mind' made him a top artist of [...]

His rich baritone voice and songs like ''Sundown,'' ''The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'' and ''If You Could Read My Mind'' made him a top artist of the 1970s. Gordon [...]

Byline: William Grimes A former English teacher with a modest writing career in Britain, he found fame in 1981 with an inventive story of an opera singer, Freud and the [...]

A former English teacher with a modest writing career in Britain, he found fame in 1981 with an inventive story of an opera singer, Freud and the Holocaust. D.M. Thomas, [...]

''The virtual banishment of figuration and narrative from the vocabulary of so many thoughtful artists was one of the legacies of the modernists,'' he said. ''I never accepted this.'' Alfred [...]

His harshly lit studies of life models represented a major departure in American painting and shocked modernist critics. Philip Pearlstein, an artist whose coolly observed nudes reclaimed the naked human [...]