Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case "terminated fatally." The bladder stones of Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835) are here, along with a death cast of the original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, connected at the chest. (Their fused liver sits in formaldehyde in a display tray below.) Floating inside a small glass bottle, item No. 13,671 is a thumb-size brown chunk of flesh "procured at the postmortem" of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin. (Last week Booth's ancestors petitioned for exhumation of his body from Baltimore's Greenmount Cemetery, hoping to prove that the man killed by federal agents...
...those designers whose participation in the process of making clothes ends when they have made a sketch. A former student of textile engineering, she insists on controlling all the details of manufacturing, and has invented fabrics like wool velvet and wool linen. She tries on every item in her collection before it is sent to stores and has been known to delay or refuse shipments of pieces that are not perfectly executed to her specifications. To keep her production schedules on target and to make sure - there isn't anything lacking in her line, Sander boldly asks retail buyers...
Another attraction of early breakfast is the food. There are no lines, and every menu item can be found. At the Union, the basic foods table has full containers, and trays of doughnuts and muffins are still full...
...crosscut with Wade's life is a series of chapters called "Evidence" into which O'Brien throws psychological theories, passages of presidential biography, even accounts of battlefront atrocities in 1776. Here are quotations from Dostoyevsky and George Sand; selections from The Magician's Handbook and the Nuremberg Principles; an item about the 30,000 people who go missing every year. Thus, for example, as we travel deeper into Wade's battlefront memories, we are also given hard-and-fast, nonfiction testimony from the men who perpetrated the My Lai massacre. The "Evidence" chapters broaden the book's focus and prevent...
...narrator of the 1960s TV series The Untouchables. A few days before the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Winchell wrote that the "most fateful hour of the most fateful week of history is at hand." Only a careful reader of the chapter notes will learn that the very next item in his column that day began, "Maxine Moore, one of the prettiest chorus girls in Lew Brown's big hit, Yokel Boy, is now in Chicago to apply for a divorce...