Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Complete dressing. Watch Meet the Press...
...seconds past the wizarding hour of midnight last Saturday, the most annoying and unnecessary marketing campaign in publishing history finally delivered the goods. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 734 pages; $25.95) would have sold millions of copies had its U.S. and British publishers simply dumped them in bookstores, unannounced, and then got out of the way as word of mouth spread among stampeding Pottermaniacs. That is pretty much the way the first three books about the boy wizard so phenomenally caught fire among young readers and then their parents...
...worth remembering right about here, that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it or listening to someone else read it aloud requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...
...acceptablity of compromises that may or may not have been offered. Call them roving freelance international pundits who can't get on "Charlie Rose." Earlier in the week, an Israeli cabinet member, Michael Melchior, was giving interviews in Thurmont, and Hanan Ashrawi, a well-known Palestinian figure, was giving press conferences back in Washington. But the White House drew the line when Limor Livnat, a member of the Likud party, which opposes Barak, showed up to lobby reporters in the press center and complain about what she thought Barak was doing. She was firmly ushered out of the building. Lockhart...
There goes the neighborhood. Although the Thurmont residents have been friendly and welcoming to the press corps, they know their visitors. Upon arrival, everyone is given a sheet with elaborate instructions on where not to park, and details of the towing policies and fines in effect. Inside, the school is plastered with warnings not to smoke, with signs pointing to the designated smokers' area outside in the back. But relations took a turn for the worse when some Arab and Israeli reporters allegedly took down the American flags from some of the classrooms...