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It took a misplaced elbow, a quirk of Los Angeles geography and some whistling from his wife to produce one of television's most memorable melodies.
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Her pivotal role performing a Spanish-language cover of Roy Orbison's "Crying" in the 2001 David Lynch movie raised her profile, but her career was marked by misfortune.
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An author, public speaker and professor, he taught a hugely popular and entertaining psychology course at Cornell that focused on the essential importance of sleep.
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Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.
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With books like "The Mother Knot" and "Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness," she challenged liberal orthodoxies about feminism and the Black experience in America.
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