If you read the stories about her, from which we’ve drawn this obituary, they seem to sing a lot of songs—a kind of alluring, fragile vitality, a siren song, of a woman with an operatic first name and an Irish-sounding last name. The rats, the friends, the strong and continued output of work made her a Washington original, a kind of scarred patron saint of struggling artists.
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August 17, 2000 | Ferdinand Protzman | The Washington Post
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February 22, 1997 | Ferdinand Protzman | The Washington Post
November 12, 1994 | Lee Fleming | The Washington Post
December 4, 1993 | Paul Richard | The Washington Post
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March 21, 1987 | Richard Paul | The Washington Post
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Manon Cleary 1942 – 2011
Manon Cleary Memorial Video. Photographs by Tom Wolff, Paul Feinberg, Steven Kijek and family archives. Sound: Philip Glass “I’m Going to Make the Cake”. Assembled by Yar Koporulin and Steven Kijek. (Published on May 13, 2012)
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