Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...total cholesterol has fallen from 224 to 184, and Daniel's from 325 to 201. Both brothers' HDL levels have gone up sharply. "I can't imagine that I used to sit down to a 1 1/2-lb. T-bone steak," Michael says. "Today that greasy, fatty taste doesn't appeal...
Next month Mother Jones, one of the country's last bastions of crusading left-wing journalism, will introduce a dramatic redesign aimed at attracting new readers. Earlier this year Ms. magazine, feminism's longtime standard- bearer, revamped itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal. Both magazines have turned in part to a sure-fire formula: celebrity journalism. The current cover of Ms. features a moody photo of Meryl Streep, while Mother Jones inaugurates its new look with seductive Susan Sarandon...
...expose that alleged Ford had been aware of what turned out to be a fatal defect in its Pinto. Over the years the magazine has gradually increased its cultural coverage, a trend that will continue in its new incarnation. But the new Mother Jones will also try to appeal to its older readers by introducing columns about politically correct travel and even personal finance. Whereas it once called itself "a magazine for the rest of us," the new Mother Jones is less of an upstart, offering the subtitle People, Politics, and Other Passions. Says Publisher Don Hazen...
...candles will be burning in many a storefront and city square to celebrate Hanukkah. But at two public buildings in Pittsburgh there will be no creche and no holiday candelabrum this year. The religious symbols have been snuffed out as a result of a federal court decision, now on appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, that has reignited the battle between forces % insisting on strict separation of church and state and those pressing for greater accommodation...
...cutting edge in their prime, Ms. and Mother Jones hope to cast off their images as vestiges of a bygone time and appeal to a broader audience...