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“[He] came to WQXR in 1954 and by his retirement on Sept. 29, 2006, was one of the longest-serving classical music hosts in the United States. Like many radio personalities of the era, he worked as a voiceover artist and actor [as well].” Moss became nationall known through two syndicated classical radio shows, First Hearing and This Is My Music.

This year in particular, besides the novels, there are Austen biographies, banknotes, fan fiction, a movie, and even that ring Kelly Clarkson paid so much money for. So The New York Times has helpfully provided the one thing that was missing.

“The archive includes photos taken by a host of well-known 20th-century photographers, such as Man Ray, Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Lola and Manuel Alvarez Bravo. The collection also includes images shot by Frida as well as photos taken by her father, Guillermo, who was a famous photographer in the 1930s.”

– than to watch a live webcam of his grave?

“Her wire sculptures, which sway gently in air currents and cast kinetic shadows, earned her a global reputation – several have recently sold at auction houses for more than $1 million.”

“The untidy and frequently farcical decline and fall of the Medici has obscured the achievements of the one member of the clan during this period [late 17th/early 18th century] to have left a lasting legacy: Ferdinando.”

“He’s doing better and better every day,” Sutter said, noting that he and members of Leonard’s family hope to have good news to share soon.

He traveled the globe introducing audiences to his people’s art of overtone singing (producing two or more notes at once), becoming an audience favorite on the world-music circuit. In Tuva, a republic within the Russian Federation, he was “like John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley and Michael Jordan kind of rolled into one.”

“We’ve got this picture of Marilyn, but what’s behind it? One of the most written-about figures in American history, Monroe has been scrutinized and glorified, pumped up with air and brought back down to earth. For generations, the American public has been fascinated by her story, a story whose contradictions are embodied in two articles published four decades apart in the pages of The Atlantic.”

In an Op-Ed for the Sunday New York Times, the actor writes, “Computer keyboards make a mousy tappy tap tappy tap like ones you hear in a Starbucks – work may be getting done but it sounds cozy and small, like knitting needles creating a pair of socks. Everything you type on a typewriter sounds grand, the words forming in mini-explosions of SHOOK SHOOK SHOOK. A thank-you note resonates with the same heft as a literary masterpiece.”