Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JIMMY BUFFETT'S memoir, A Pirate Looks at 50, hit the No. 1 spot on the New York Times best-seller list. He's one of only six authors to have had books at the top of both the fiction and nonfiction lists. Even odder, one of each of the other authors' books seems to have an odd resonance with a Buffett album...
...partner is himself no slouch in this regard: Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films, whose gift for salesmanship has helped generate 110 Academy Award nominations and 30 actual Oscars over the past decade for his company's generally ambitious movies (which include the likes of The Piano, Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting, as well as Scream). The third member of what Weinstein refers to, perhaps inevitably, as "the Three Musketeers" is Ronald A. Galotti, the "blockbuster publisher of Vogue" (Brown's words) and before that Brown's colleague as publisher of Vanity Fair, site of her previous editorship...
...like C-sections and forceps deliveries.) And if you want to keep tabs on what else is and isn't known about birthing babies, check in with the Cochrane Collaboration, an international group of researchers that reviews medical data. For nearly 20 years they've been sorting fact from fiction in childbirth. Now that's a true labor of love...
...with feathers. According to their report, which appears in the latest issue of Nature, the specimens not only cement the increasingly popular theory that birds are descended directly from dinos. They also suggest that many kinds of dinosaur, including the vicious velociraptors that slashed their way through Crichton's fiction, may have been festooned with their own colorful plumage...
...Tony cared passionately about the art and craft of non-fiction writing...and the work of other writers--his peers and younger writers," Healey said...