Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Item: Françoise Sagan opened her seventh play, proving that her precocious fame sprang from the trick of being middle-aged at 18; now that she is middle-aged at 35, her characters are trying to recapture teen raptures. That is all there is to A Piano on the Grass...
...Item: Jean Anouilh, with his third play to be running on the boulevards this year, is the kind of illusionist who pretends to show the audience just how it's done. In Don't Wake Madame, he turns some show-business clichés upside down with his accustomed skill, but only to shake out the last sticky-sweet drops of sentimentality...
...different children are selected as guest editors for each issue, and hold veto power over every item in the publication...
...medicine. Recently, he set up a foundation to channel money into cancer research. Much of his estate will go to the foundation. Characteristically, he has made his arrangements without fanfare, and with attention to legal nuance. In concentrating on detail, however, he seems to have missed one major item: the selection of a successor to steer one of the largest and last personal financial empires...
...keeping with the benign attitude that characterizes the approach of many Government regulatory programs, and because the Toy Safety Act is ambiguous as to enforcement, the FDA has chosen to ignore the law's emergency provision. That provision could be used to end the sale of an item before a hearing. As it stands, even the four toys already cited will probably be around as long as retailers' stocks last-almost surely well past Christmas...