He is working on several projects and appeared happy to be living by his pen.
Minnelli spent the next five years trying to launch several projects and writing I Remember It Well (1974), an autobiography.
They worked together on several projects and, as members of Art & Language, a collaborative of Conceptual artists, helped found the Marxist magazine The Fox in 1975.
In addition to his daughter, an actress, who lives in Manhattan, Mr. Alvin is survived by his wife, the former Andrea Brown, whom he met in art school and with whom he later worked on several projects; and a sister, Suzanne Alvin of Seaside, Calif.
Since leaving office, Mr. Branstad has worked in the private sector on several projects, and in August he started work as a financial adviser in the Des Moines office of Robert W. Baird Inc., a Milwaukee investment and brokerage firm owned by Northwestern Mutual Life.
"Glenn is a pragmatic conservative; he believes in markets, but he is not theological," said Kevin Hassett, a co-author with Mr. Hubbard on several projects and a senior fellow, as is Mr. Hubbard, at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research center in Washington.
