Word: brainstorms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officer requests our IDs. Hoping to buy my companions some time, I hand over mine first. In the middle of the exchange, Aaron has a brainstorm. He decides to overwhelm the inspector with a hailstorm of paperwork. He tosses out his driver's license, his school ID, his credit cards, even his USTA membership card from the 10th grade. Josh follows suit, emptying his wallet on the unsuspecting bouncer. The line begins to back up. People start shouting. The bouncer panics. He shoves all of our IDs back at us and slaps on entry-bands...
...retaliation, the instructors of the real "Sex," Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Irven DeVore and Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser for Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology" hire a consulting firm to brainstorm ideas for next fall when competition will be "stiff." Suggestions after conducting videotaped focus groups include co-educational lab partners. The required movie will be replaced with "Pheromone Femmes," available only at four minute increments each costing 25 cents. The Core office intervenes for the first time to veto these plans. DeVore and Hauser appeal in the name of "academic freedom...
...TELETUBBIES (PBS) The most imaginative children's show to come along in years, Teletubbies features soft, bouncy creatures in an odd green world and seems like a perfect projection of the toddler sensibility. Its greatest brainstorm: repeating films immediately after showing them, just as a two-year-old wants...
...comes over to your room to brainstorm, then comes back to get some final points of "advice" once the paper is done...
...both the staging and the set design. As with much of the production, the design suggested a wealth of ideas and inspiration, but very little selectivity on the part of the designers as to which of these ideas to develop and refine. Though it was interesting to see a brainstorm in the flesh, this production angle did little to clarify the complicated intricacies of the text...