Word: brainchild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clip is the brainchild of Michel Jordi, 39, a former manufacturer of watch straps from tiny Grenchen, Switzerland. He and Heinz Peter Barandun, a former bank executive, along with two others, privately financed the project and started production only six months later. "We couldn't have done it if we had been a large company," says Barandun, now Le Clip chairman. "As a small group, we saw its potential and just went ahead...
Perhaps the slickest of the new video yearbooks is produced by Year Look Enterprises of Durham, N.C. The company is the brainchild of Bob Levitan, 26, who made a video chronicle of the 1981-82 school year at Duke University while a student there. Though the tape was just a student project, dozens of people later asked if they could buy copies. Seeing a potential market, Levitan produced a 40-minute video yearbook the following year and sold 100 copies at $45 each. His company now has a roster of 20 clients, including such universities as Princeton, Brown and Michigan...
...Artwalks," the brainchild of one enterprising student and her mother, provides listeners with tours of several architectural monuments of Europe on audio cassettes that play on a Walkman...
...literary history for hermeneutics. Nowhere is this radical project illustrated better than in the humorous and ingenious, "My Monster/My Self", in which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is read as an autobiographical confession of maternal rejection. The literary monster is analyzed as product of "a single parent household," the unwanted brainchild of a mad (pro)creator, who in childhood was abandoned by her own mother...
...Rear Window is the brainchild of David Kleiler, who runs the organization out of his home in Brookline. Kleiler began the Rear Window a little over six years ago, after 12 years of teaching film at Babson College. Feeling disconnected from the world of cinema after quitting Babson, Kleiler began the organization as a showcase for locally produced films, particularly shorts, which were going unappreciated in the Boston community. Kleiler had previously shown films in his living room, and liked the casual environment and discussion such a format provided...