More and more items on the mental lists he kept began falling into place.

Once we became an item and people began to ask how we'd met, I began to wonder whatever happened to the homeport.

Moments later, another equally curious item began to appear on the computer display screen.

Sometime in the 1950s, more decorative items began to be made.

The public can view the items, all 320 lots of them, beginning tomorrow at Christie's.

"When she got her column, ugly items about my clients began to appear," he says.

The items on the makeup bureau began to jump and quiver.

Various items began to break, and Andy would stop by to repair them.

But items really began pouring in two years ago, when the museum posted a plea to potential contributors on its Web site.

As you chase away your internal dialogue, other items of awareness begin to fill in the empty space, so to speak.