Word: itemizes
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...have reduced what often used to be , a spectacle into an almost humdrum event. Today few people in town other than Jack King, the local mortician, even know that an execution has occurred until they read about it the next day, buried on an inside page of the Huntsville Item. When a chubby killer named Richard Beavers got his lethal injection of sodium thiopental last week, the only noteworthy aspect of the event was its timing: late on the night of Easter Sunday. That might have provoked an outcry a few years ago, but a vigil for Beavers outside...
...value of a Booker T. and the MG'sremake of an Eastwood-Western theme is maintainedfor the duration of the unflinchingly retro surfdisc, a collection of surfer instrumentals thatwere released between '60 and '63. Like all thebest that camp has to offer, this disc is morethan just an amusement item: the burning guitarwork and unstoppable rhythms that mark classicssuch as the Cantay's "Pipeline" and the Surfaris'"Wipeout" (check out those killer bongos!) serveas the backbone for this disc. The two tunes bysurf-guitar master Dick Dale are predictablystrong, as Dale deftly powers his way through histrademark, riff-based style...
...item "Hurts So Good" ((CHRONICLES, March 21)) contained an inaccurate reference to former Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams. He pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress. He was not convicted of Iran-contra-related perjury...
...through two famous training grounds for American satirists of his generation. In 1987 he began writing for Spy magazine, the acid monthly known for "its witty, savagely elegant deconstructions of the hype, venality and sheer short-fingered vulgarity that marked the past decade." (That quote comes from the Milestones item that Handy wrote last month about Spy's folding after seven years of nipping at the heels of power.) From there he went on to write Weekend Update for Saturday Night Live. That, says Handy, gave him good practice at one of his chief tasks in Chronicles: "To look...
...grants process, we make it clear thatmoney should be spent on needs rather than onwants. This is a luxury item for us," Reyes said."Granted, it will take a few extra minutes forthings to get done, but they'll get done...