Word: itemizes
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...look hard enough, you can find every conceivable type of holiday item in the shop. But while browsing, let the buyer beware. Step on one section of carpet in the corner of the candle room, and you'll trigger a whole manger scene--complete with music, lights, hay, and even a flying angel--on one side of the room. A lifesize model child sleeps in a bed in the middle of one room, and in another corner, the likeness of Santa himself snoozes in his rocker...
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...
...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...