Word: obit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe it was the obituary notice for 80-year-old Seattle resident Thomas Fallihee. "In lieu of flowers," read the obit, "a yes vote on the new baseball stadium would be appreciated." Thus, Fallihee cast the ultimate in absentee ballots. Too bad so many other baseball fans are voting in absentia...
...Quinn, lawyer William Kunstler had a face "ready-made for a radical's Mount Rushmore." Actor Don Brockett was remembered for his astonishing range--the amiable chef on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood also played a deranged inmate in The Silence of the Lambs. Quinn's favorite obit: soprano Ina Souez, who starred in operas in the '30s and then, after World War II, joined Spike Jones' bizarre musical-comedy troupe, cheerfully warbling under a hat adorned with live pigeons. "Now there's a full life," says Quinn...