Her portrayal of Valerie Clarke in “A Chorus Line” gave her original bragging rights to one of the most memorable characters in a Broadway juggernaut – which ran for more than 6,100 performances from 1975 to 1990.
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Charles Wurster, scientist who battled to ban pesticide DDT, dies at 92
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1972 banned most uses of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in the United States.
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Richard Barancik, last of ‘Monuments Men’ from World War II, dies at 98
His unit, tasked with safeguarding European art and culture amid the destruction and plunder of war, was dramatized in the 2014 Hollywood film.
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Marga Minco, Holocaust writer of understated power, dies at 103
Her debut novel ‘Bitter Herbs’ has been required reading in schools in the Netherlands for generations. Readers around the world have come to know the book in translation.
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Melvin Wulf, legal crusader for ACLU, dies at 95
He helped transform the ACLU from an organization that mostly wrote briefs on major cases to one that represented individual clients before the high court.
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The Rev. Stephen Pieters, who helped shift views on AIDS, dies at 70
He emerged as an eloquent and nationally renowned spokesman for those facing AIDS, which came to be considered a likely death sentence.
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Mary Ann Hoberman, award-winning poet for children, dies at 92
She received a National Book Award for ‘A House Is a House for Me’ – first printed in 1978, an enduring classic.
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Peter Nero, pianist who bridged pop and classical, dies at 89
Nero among the country’s most beloved pops conductors, known for applying a classical framework to popular music or, working in the opposite direction, for incorporating popular melodies and jazz techniques into classical works.
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David Gilmour, entrepreneur who created Fiji water, dies at 91
Gilmour was inspired by a tiny island that became his refuge after the killing of his only child.
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Hong Kong-born singer Coco Lee dies at age 48
Lee became a singer after winning first runner up in an annual competition held by broadcaster TVB in Hong Kong, and released her first album at age 19.