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Helen Steeply's Moment article

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FOUR YEARS AFTER OPTICAL THEORIST, ENTREPRENEUR, TENNIS ACADEMICIAN, AND AVANT-GARDE FILMMAKER JAMES O. INCANDENZA TOOK HIS OWN LIFE BY PUTTING HIS HEAD IN A MICROWAVE OVEN

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The screen's catch is in the all-caps section header, not the article: the apparatus voice dates Steeply's one putative published clip by distance from JOI's suicide, and in doing so issues the four-title epithet with OPTICAL THEORIST in first position and AVANT-GARDE FILMMAKER in last — the career's official ordering, optics before cinema, exactly the arc scene 026's parenthesis gives ("come back to tennis, and later film, from a background in hard-core-math-based optical science"). The article itself (the Jarvik IX purse-snatching) carries no optics content; only the header epithet is in scope.

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