Adam Nossiter
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Michel Ciment, Eminent French Film Critic, Is Dead at 85
He helped define cinema as high art for generations of moviegoers and filmmakers in France and beyond, even if he irked some of them with...
Yuri Temirkanov, Conductor Who Celebrated Russia’s Music, Dies at 84
Immersed in his native land’s repertoire — Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev — he drew bold, rich sounds from the world’s major orchestras. In Russia, he was...
Zdenek Macal, Conductor With an International Reach, Dies at 87
Shuttling between Europe and the United States, he conducted the world’s great orchestras. He was music director of the New Jersey Symphony for 11 years.
Don Laughlin, Who Turned a Patch of Desert Into a Casino Mecca, Dies at 92
There was just a dirt road and a boarded-up motel in 1964 when he first saw the area at the southern tip of Nevada that...
Joe Hill, Swashbuckling South Street Seaport Merchant, Dies at 76
His cluttered store selling nautical bric-a-brac was a last link to Lower Manhattan’s seafaring history, before giving way to a tide of “shopping mall” stores.