GoogObits
Obituaries augmented by Google searches using hypertext enjambment. There is a lot to learn from the dead.
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GoogObits: Lessons (Murray Pergament, Chain Grew From Paint Stores, 76, Dies)
Today we’re delivered a few capitalist lessons that we instinctively already knew: Paths to economic success disappear over time. One scientific advance can lead to the launch of vastly different and successful product lines. Google moves on. Land is king.
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Accompanist
First publsihed here on Salon Blogs The dominant view of greatness in a capitalist society (and let’s face it, the entire world is a capitalist society at this point) is that of the Triumphant Hero. The individual who overcomes adversity, defeats the elements, and is just plain better than everyone else. But there are other ways to be great. Take Mal Waldron, who…
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GoogObits: Philip B. Meggs, 60, Educator and Historian of Graphic Design, Dies
Philip B. Meggs, a scholar of graphic and advertising design who wrote the first full history of the field, from the time of Gutenberg to the postmodern era, died on Nov. 24 in Richmond, Va. He was 60.
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GoogObits: Eugene Gregorie, Automobile Designer, Dies at 94
DETROIT, Dec. 2 — Eugene T. Gregorie, the first design chief of the Ford Motor Company and the creator of the Lincoln Continental, died on Sunday in St. Augustine, Fla., where he lived. He was 94.
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GoogObits: Mary Bright, 48, Curtain Maker Who Used Unorthodox Materials, Dies
Mary Bright, an innovative curtain maker whose work for the Museum of Modern Art, Calvin Klein, Wendi and Rupert Murdoch, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Lauren Bacall and other clients moved the traditional craft of cutting, sewing and pleating curtains to the realm of modern art, died yesterday in New York Presbyterian Hospital. She was 48.