Ann Beattie's powerful contrast in her writing of tellingly detailed descriptions and stark silence has caused her work to be placed in the contemporary canon of literary minimalism, a movement identified by critics--not by the so-called minimalists them...
Ann Beattie is a novelist and short-story writer whose evocations of American life at the end of the twentieth century have earned her a wide readership and sustained critical engagement for more than two decades. Beattie's fiction explores the emotional...
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Drug Topics
Picture this 10/02/2000: 718 words, approx. 2 pages
Digital photo processing offers promise of new revenue stream for drugstores Brick-and-mortar pharmacies seeking a competitive edge in the face of Internet e-commerce competition may have to look no further than their photofinishing counter. Traditionally, photofinishing is a big draw for many...
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The Washington Post
The Picture 04/25/2000: 789 words, approx. 3 pages
The picture will take a long time to forget: the commando pointing an MP-5 submachine gun at a 6-year-old boy and the fisherman who had plucked him from the sea. (An Italian American, by the way, hardly the anti-Castro Cuban so caricatured by the...
The parents of Madeleine McCann on Thursday released an artist's impression of the man they believe abducted their daughter during a family vacation in Portugal.The sketches depict a man with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a brown or maroon top and beige trousers walking with a...
---------- U.S. experts return from N. Korea after visiting Yongbyon complex BEIJING - U.S. nuclear experts arrived Saturday in Beijing after a trip to North Korea which included a visit to the country's key nuclear facilities in Yongbyon. Siegfried Hecker, co-director...
