Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nineteen-eighty five saw Harvard take its first carefully planned steps towards computerization, but the steps were anything but bold. With characteristic caution, the University, despite dipping its feet into the waters, has yet to take the big plunge. If anything, 1985 is the year of the rational, the skeptical and the realistic in the computer world...
Nineteen-eighty five saw Harvard take its first carefully planned steps towards computerization, but the steps were anything but bold. With characteristic caution, the University, despite dipping its feet into the waters, has yet to take the big plunge. If anything, 1985 is the year of the rational, the skeptical and the realistic in the computer world...
...country, and special police squads have been set up to deal with them in cities as varied as Las Vegas and Harrisburg, Pa. With no central bosses or structure, the Marielitos operate as loose bands of conscienceless predators, uneducated and wild but also shrewd. One of their first bold strokes: dressed as police SWAT teams, they began invading the homes of Miami drug dealers. Besides stealing cash and dope, the raiders made a point of pistol-whipping, torturing and occasionally raping their victims, who, given their business, could not call police. Last year two drug dealers shot two Dade SWAT...
...sense, America long ago made a shrewd instinctive bargain with the world. It offered a prize -- its wealth, its freedom and promise -- and then, Darwinian, dared those strong enough and bold enough to make the leap. It was, and is, a hard journey. And, of course, the newcomers were too literal- minded about the prize. The sidewalks were not paved with gold...
Black Sparrow's reprints of Lewis' iconoclastic works, like the magazine Blast (1914 and 1915) and the autobiographical Rude Assignment, were illustrated with Lewis' adrenal scrawls and became another profitable venture. Deliberately bold typefaces that varied wildly in size to emphasize certain words, according to the author's wishes, as well as surreal pronouncements ("A picture of a man either is or is not") exerted an appeal on college audiences: more than 50,000 copies of Lewisiana have been sold, and other volumes are on the way. "Lewis wrote 45 books," proclaims Martin. "And Black Sparrow has reprint rights...