Word: presse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China jet in Los Angeles this week on the first stage of a scheduled American tour, he knows he will be in the cross hairs of U.S. anger at China's dismal human-rights record and allegations of nuclear espionage. "Let [Americans] vent their anger," said Zhu in a press conference last month. "I will go to tell the truth...
Happily, a few chapters into J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which Scholastic Press published last September, our hero receives a letter via owl informing him that he is, in fact, a famous wizard and has won a place at the prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And with that, the reader and Harry together are plopped down into a world every bit as fantabulous and vividly original as those created by C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl or, for that matter, George Lucas...
...overpack The First Lady's jet was delayed an hour due to excess cargo weight. And she brought only three press secretaries...
...checked into the Hotel Inter-Continental in Belgrade, and within 15 minutes someone slipped a manila envelope under the door, a sort of Serbian press kit. It contained atrocity pictures--hideous stills of bodies mutilated, bodies burned in mass graves, bodies without genitals or heads. Welcome to the Balkans. The press kit implied that Bosnian Muslims, the focus of Serbian rage at the time, had done this filthy work. But who could identify killers or victims? Everyone has a death archive; everyone performs a moral sleight of hand: "We're not doing it! And even if we are doing...
...scale. When Diana Douglas Darrid approached a large publisher with a memoir of her life as an actress, she found the editors only wanted her to dish dirt about her first marriage--to actor Kirk Douglas. Darrid eventually found the right fit with Barricade Books, a small New York press that publishes theater and film biographies. Lots of specialty and regional publishers are seeking books on everything from Navy stories to tales of Kentucky history. In the fall, Rainer plans to launch First Person Press, which will be strictly devoted to memoir publishing...