Word: boldest
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Side Effects. Tokyo has never lacked for master plans. The boldest was designed in 1960 by Architect Kenzo Tange, whose ambitious blueprint to extend the city out over Tokyo Bay attracted attention round the world, but was virtually ignored at home. Though never geisha-gracious like Kyoto, its sister city to the southwest, Tokyo has always made up for its lack of physical charm with a sense of rawboned excitement. Its pleasure districts are the gaudiest anywhere. The hub of the nation's cultural life, Tokyo boasts five symphony orchestras, attracts most of the country's artists...
Mailer characterized Morris' departure as "the most depressing event in American letters in many a year. Under Willie's editorship. Harper's has been the boldest and most adventurous magazine in America. It's damned depressing to feel that another man gets hit because of you. I know I'm not going to write for Harper's anymore." At the beginning of his tenure at Harper's, Morris published Mailer's "On the Steps of the Pentagon," which subsequently won a Pulitzer Prize in book form as Armies of the Night. Last...
...plan is the boldest undertaken by any medical school and is a financially viable plan that can serve as a model for the rest of the country," Dr. Quigg Newton, president of the Commonwealth Fund, which provided the initial funding, said...
...active role in the social and economic development of Asia's only Catholic nation. In the past three years alone, the Philippine Bishops' Conference has inaugurated more than 2,000 projects, including rural credit unions, farming cooperatives and manpower training programs. This month the hierarchy made its boldest move to date...
...years ago, fear of being humiliated by a slightly askew toupee was enough to keep all but the boldest of America's estimated 17-20 million balding males in their natural state. Now, in a youth-oriented age of flowing locks, the artificial hair industry has finally developed "rugs" that not only look real but will stay in place in wind, water or bed. Consequently, more than 2.5 million men now wear toupees, and where hair does not flourish, rug makers...