Satoshi Kon, a Japanese filmmaker and comic-book artist whose dazzling visual compositions and humane, emotionally resonant stories won him a devoted following in animation circles and beyond, died in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Jonathan Harvey, a British composer who was admired on both sides of the Atlantic for his use of electronic sound in concert works and operas to convey a sense of the beyond, died on Tuesday in Lewes, England.
Arthur Cantor, the gentleman impresario with a showman's flair whose life in the theater encompassed more than 40 years of shows on Broadway and beyond, died on Sunday in Manhattan.
Martin Aronstein, the five-time Tony Award nominee who was one of the American theater's most prolific lighting designers both on Broadway and beyond, died on May 3 in Van Nuys, Calif.
Eileen Ford, the doyenne of the modeling business, whose Ford agency set standards for the industry, launched superstars such as Brooke Shields, Christie Brinkley and Naomi Campbell, and shaped American ideals of beauty in the 1960s and beyond, died Wednesday at a hospital in Morristown, N.J.
I grabbed my computer and Goggled a few photos... photos of kids in remote areas of Africa and beyond, dying of hunger and thirst, and of course, lack of medical attention.
In the past few years, the popularity of green buildings has expanded beyond die-hard do-gooders.
My face inches from his, his inches from mine, whatever it is beyond dying and fear of dying, whatever it is beyond solace which remains solace eludes me, yet no longer eludes me.
The Rev. David Wilkerson, an evangelical minister and author who founded the Times Square Church to minister to the downtrodden in one of Manhattan's seedier precincts, but whose later writings included apocalyptic predictions for New York City and beyond, died on Wednesday in an automobile accident in Texas.
Meanwhile, immuno-oncology moved cancer beyond "dying from" or "living with" to outright "cures" in selected cases.
Listening to comedians who have lived and breathed comedy for their entire adult lives discuss the craft is a pleasure that reaches beyond die-hard comedy fans, and the amount of topics and roundtable guests a "Talking Funny" series could incorporate is endless.
