Susan Sontag, Social Critic With Verve, Dies at 71
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Susan Sontag's impassioned political pronouncements and her advocacy of the avant-garde made her a lionized and polarizing figure in 20th-century letters.
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Susan Sontag, the author, human rights activist and social critic, has died in a New York cancer hospital, aged 71. Ms Sontag, who had suffered from leukemia for some time, was known for interests that ranged
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Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday at age 71 at New York&#39;s Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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New York Times journalist R.W. Apple, a leading writer on war and politics for decades before he returned to the noodle shops of Saigon and restaurants of Paris to write about the food and wine he loved, died on Wednesday. He was 71.
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller has died after battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Friday.
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Actor Jerry Orbach, who earned a  reputation as the quintessential New Yorker through his work in  films and as a longtime star of the "Law & Order" television  series, has died from prostate cancer. He was 69.
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Social critic and author Susan  Sontag, one of America's leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday  at age 71 at New York's Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle  with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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PARIS (France): French philosopher Jacques Derrida has died of cancer at the age of 74 on Saturday, said sources. Jacques Derrida, the founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday.
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Eliot Fremont-Smith, in a photo from The Timesâs archive, with markings by editors. Eliot Fremont-Smith, who died last week at 78, was a book critic at the Times from 1961-1968, stormy and important years in American writing. Iâm not old enough to remember his work here (or anywhere, really), but Fremont-Smithâs name has long been [...].
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French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of the "deconstruction theory", dies at the age of 74.
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Mime icon Marcel Marceau, the world's most honored and respected practitioner of what might be America's most ridiculed art form, has died.  He was 84.  In Marceau's native France, President Nicolas Sarkozy led a chorus of mourners by saying, "Fran...
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, died over the weekend in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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A revolutionary who fought for spontaneity over correctness JULIA CHILD, 1912-2004
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Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.
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Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday. She was 71.
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"MASH" director Robert Altman, who revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking with a chaotic, irreverent style that critics hailed as "American Art Cinema," has died at age 81, his production company said on Tuesday.
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US author Susan Sontag, who was regarded as a leading activist and intellectual, has died in New York. She was 71. Sontag, who had been battling leukaemia, died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the city where she was born.