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Betty Friedan, who authored “The Feminine Mystique” and spearheaded the 1960s feminist movement died of congestive heart failure Saturday in Washington, D.C. It was her 85th birthday...
...death acts as a reminder of the activist spirit of the 1960s, Brinton added...
...There isn’t a very unified voice for women now,” Brinton said. “Her death does remind us that we need to create a unified voice again, but it will be different from the one in the 1960s...
...brainy, high-achieving family, she looked at pop culture and asked, "Where are the girls?" In plays like Uncommon Women and Others and the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Heidi Chronicles, she provided the answer with textured portraits of smart, sometimes self-doubting feminists struggling in the wake of the 1960s with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled her daughter's premature delivery and months in a neonatal ICU in an achingly poignant essay, "Days of Awe." Although...
DIED. NAM JUNE PAIK, 74, impish Korean-born avant-gardist deemed the inventor of video art who in the 1960s won acclaim with works that simultaneously celebrated and spoofed the fledgling notion of media overload; of natural causes; in Miami. Inspired by iconoclast composer John Cage, he created such renowned installations as Video Fish, an array of 52 live monitors, each obscured by fish-filled aquariums...