Word: itemizes
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...item "Download A Best Seller" [PERSONAL TIME, YOUR TECHNOLOGY, June 22] misidentified the company that produces electronic books that can be downloaded from its website onto a special unit with a built-in modem. The correct name is SoftBook Press Inc. Its website is www.softbookpress.com
...cites an offending item from a long ago Earl Wilson column: "'Would you believe that not once has Joey Bishop sat down to dinner or drinks with Frank Sinatra without being invited?'" The slight isn't that Wilson got it wrong, exactly. What rankles Bishop is Wilson's mocking disbelief. "I'm the comic on the bill. He's having dinner, O.K.? If he wanted me present, he would invite me. How do I know he's not talking business? I knew my place. You people"--journalists--"don't believe the truth...
...Your item about the America Online chat with Koko, the gorilla who communicates through sign language, purported to be a "partial transcript" of Koko's chat, in which I helped to relay her signed responses [NOTEBOOK, May 11]. First of all, the headline LOVE DRINK NIPPLE FAKE was made up by TIME and was not a quote from Koko. Your piece, which impugned my veracity, included a supposed "transcript" that contained deceptive inaccuracies. You lifted selected phrases from the transcript, rearranged them and presented them as if they were verbatim conversation. Operating on "gorilla time" rather than Internet chat time...
TIME did not intend to attack Dr. Patterson's veracity and regrets any misunderstanding that may have arisen from the publication of this item...
...line-item veto, in terms of the money it saved, was always more show than substance," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "But it's much too popular to let go." Despite the slim likelihood of 34 states' ratifying an amendment that aims to cut out state-bound pork, the veto concept is highly marketable. "It'll be a show campaign issue again -- just like it was for the Republicans in 1994," says Tumulty. "It's right up there with term limits." And it conveniently reappears just in time for the election season...