Word: concepting
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...Stratocaster miserably in front of a panoramic cityscape. Drummer Fabrizio Moretti and bassist Nikolai Fraiture are overwhelmed by a horde of winter-jacketed pedestrians who stumble into them and knock up their instruments. Occasionally, one member or the other will appear to be as large as a skyscraper, a concept that seems to have been borrowed from the video for the Rolling Stones’ 1994 “Love is Strong.” This new video ditches the carefree fun, wit, and danceability that made every MTV-2-watching teen with a guitar dream of hitching...
...from audience motion, not psychotropic pre-gaming. After 45 minutes, the novelty has worn off, and FM suspects it has paid four dollars to see an hour-long screensaver in surround sound. FM recommends the show for aficionados and the baked. If early-’70s concept-rock isn’t up your alley, the planetarium also hosts Laser U2 on Thursdays, Laser Beatles on Sundays, and Laser Led Zeppelin (“Climb the Stairway to Rock ’N Roll”) earlier on Fridays and Saturdays. Complete schedules of the museum?...
...between the reality of this complex situation and the knee-jerk hysteria that surrounds it—it is hard to interpret the post-resignation public defenses of Summers as anything but angry, reactionary pessimism. Indeed, we should remember that “political correctness” was a concept invented by conservatives to malign progressive attempts to democratize and diversify the academy and to make higher education more hospitable to a broader range of people and ideas. Those who characterize Summers as an undeserving victim of “political correctness” fail to apprehend the real significance...
...find it ludicrous to claim that there is something unethical about toy companies creating animated programs in order to sell their toys. For years television shows have licensed toy companies to re-create their characters and objects for children to play with. If a company designs a concept for a toy, as well as a story line to go with it, it is just a natural extension of the licensing concept...
...This difference consists in giving these minorities special deference, bigger budgets, and more face time.You must actively promote diversity—that is, a diversity of physical appearances and genders, not of opinions. If you are not a visible cheerleader of diversity, you are a reactionary opponent of the concept. A good way of supporting diversity is by throwing extra flesh at the Faculty mob. Name your most adamant minority critics to deanships; create new deanships to boost diversity. Look around the University for ideas you might implement to win a few bonus points, like the financing of an undergraduate...