Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BOLD VENTURE-"The program's potential for harm may be lessened by the bad acting, the bad writing and absurd story line that deaden somewhat the impact on the viewer...
...directed against it. The public seemed to like the idea of soaking the rich and the alien, while leading newspapers agreed that at least something drastic had to be done. But as business, with no capital to operate, ground to a standstill, the first reaction to Sukarno's bold move was stagnation and frustration...
...full-page trade-paper ads, TV Producer Jack (Bold Journey) Douglas talked back to his critics-and his words had the authority of success. Last week he announced details of the sale of 'his new TV series, Sweet Success, to the Independent Television Corp. for international syndication. Douglas has also peddled enough other new shows to land enough business for his production company (estimated net worth: $2,000,000) to keep it busy for four years. The Douglas operating formula, E+E=$$$ (education+ entertainment = dollars), was paying off, and if the Douglas critics did not like it, they could...
...adventure shows. Since then, I Search for Adventure has found pay dirt in everything from elephant hunts to mountain climbing. Douglas followed up with Golden Voyage, an unashamed imitation of old-fashioned movie travelogues, then tried an underwater series called Kingdom of the Sea. By 1956, when he started Bold Journey, another version of Search, Douglas was one of the best markets a traveling movie photographer could find. His own camera crews ranged the world, reporting on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Japanese geishas, the far valleys of Pakistan. Their efforts built still another show: Seven-League Boots...
...close friend of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Together they "discovered" and fell under the spell of African carving. Later, Epstein staked out elegant old London as his chosen battleground, began alternately shocking and dazzling the British with hugely energetic, part sentimental and part brutal monuments. Epstein's bull-bold, pink alabaster Adam made strong men blush, girls giggle, and dowagers howl for blood. "I saw my subject," Epstein rumblingly explained, mankind." "as His the contorted fount of female all nude, Rima, was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin in 1925. As he pulled the cord, the Prime Minister was heard to exclaim...