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The Washington Post Page One obit on Melvoin claimed--without substantiation--"a resurgence in heroin use in the '90s," while the New York Times asserted that the "heroin vogue has been building since at least 1993 and shows no signs of ebbing."
Turns out that there's a virtually identical 54-word passage appearing in both the NYT obit, running over the byline of Alessandra Stanley, and in the WP obit, credited to "News Services."
Peter Applebome, who wrote the Times obit, wins truth-telling points for a paragraph that began, "Mr. Morris drank too much bourbon and red wine, smoked too many Viceroys, stayed up too late and caroused too much."
Anyway, the Times obit is written by Enid Nemy, who does not normally grace the death announcement page, and she notes that no less a fan than Prince Charles "sent a gift of homemade organic tomato soup and vanilla ice cream to Ms. Paterson after she disclosed her illness last month."
Instead of our regular class work, let's go outside under the big, old dead elm and show a filmstrip, i.e., let's quote a few highlights from Tim Weiner's dark and charming New York Times obit titled "Sidney Gottlieb, 80, Dies, Took LSD to CIA," an account of the man who ran MKUltra, a project that dosed unsuspecting Americans with hallucinogenic drugs for charity.