Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time's general acceptance and tidy layout, on the other had, legitimizes the nation's gossip. You can, after all, skim an item on Gary Coleman or Princess Di without fear of public humiliation when it's sandwiched between a cover story on nuclear awareness and a feature about the effect of home computers on education...
...powerful force to back, and it seems unlikely that industries that need wood and plant products will suddenly halt or slow their encroachment on tropical forests. But economic and scientific interests will, in the long run, be best served if existing ecology political action groups add one more item to their agendas
Maida Heatter's New Book of Great Desserts (Knopf; $17.50) has two equally good apple tarts: one, with an apricot glaze, might belong on the Thanksgiving or Christmas table. The book's most celebrated item will undoubtedly be her French chocolate loaf cake, the result of "a lifelong search" for the recipe for a particular gateau sold at a French pastry shop in New York City...
Examine one fairly new item: airhead. It means, of course, a brainless person, someone given to stupid behavior and opinions. But it is a vacuous, dispiriting little effort. The word has no invective force or metaphorical charm. When slang settles for the drearily literal (airhead equals empty head), it is too tired to keep up with the good stuff...
...jargon that has possibilities as slang. Voiceover, segue, intro and out of sync have been part of the more general language for a long time. Now there is the out-tro, the stand-up spiel at the end of a news reporter's segment. A vividly cynical new item of TV news jargon is bang-bang, meaning the kind of film coverage that TV reporters must have in order to get their reports from El Salvador or the Middle East onto the evening news...