Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bold, black and hilarious, he is Hollywood's biggest...
This is a rather bold style for a novel that has the marks of popular entertainment. Most readers still prefer their sex, violence and profanity served in a direct, fast-moving narrative. Still, Dunne may be on to something. In an age of soft-core TV, it is not hard to imagine John ("Dutch") Shea Jr. as the king of the bedtime talk shows, filling the night with tales of greed and lust...
...short order Evans sharpened the paper's writing, splashed bold photographs on its gray pages, and instituted a cleaner, livelier layout. Circulation rose 6.7% to 297,787 for the second half of 1981, compared with the same period in 1980, and Evans was named "editor of the year" by his peers. No matter. Last week, as doomsayers had predicted right along, Murdoch forced Evans...
...years ago, the fondest hope of Carole Ely and Lore Harp was to escape the bored-housewives trap and do something really bold like, say, opening a travel agency. When Lore's husband Bob, a scientist at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., suggested that they think big and take a plunge into computers instead, they responded with what amounted to uncomprehending stares. Neither knew the first thing about the exotic world of computers...
...Egypt, the press misjudged Anwar Sadat's popularity with his own people. With his bold gesture to Israel, Sadat was the first modern Arab to capture the non-Arab world's fancy. He was so articulate, attractive and reasonable in chatting with "Barbara" or "Walter" or "John." When in the last weeks of Sadat's life, he arrested upwards of 1,000 critics, the mind-set in the Western press was that he was overreacting to domestic opposition. Not until after his assassination did Western journalists learn how little loved he was at home...