Word: concepting
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...shogunate. Originally the term "floating world," or ukiyo, referred to the Buddhist notion that the everyday grind of travail and tears is ephemeral. Yet the proprietors and patrons of the leisure districts that sprang up on the outskirts of Edo (Tokyo), Kyoto and Osaka in the 1600s turned that concept on its head. Life was to be savored. "Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples," as novelist Asai Ryoi wrote in 1661, "singing songs, drinking wine, and diverting ourselves in just floating, floating like...
...agree with Barlett and Steele that the high cost of medical care is not because the caregivers are too expensive. We need to examine the concept of a single agency to provide coverage, collect fees and pay claims before the percentage of our GDP devoted to medical care in this country hobbles our economy even further. The comparison between Medicare's administrative costs and the much higher costs of private insurers was a telling revelation. The insurance lobbies must be faced down, or we will suffocate ourselves with astronomical costs for pencil pushing rather than actual health care...
...time entertainment, Zucker was dispatched in late 2000 to Burbank, Calif., to help re-energize the network, which had failed to recognize the explosive appeal of reality TV. Within a short time, Zucker was doing what many observers say he does best: putting a new spin on a proven concept and promoting the heck out of it. He generated two hits in the gross-out fest Fear Factor and The Apprentice. "NBC thought reality TV was beneath them," says Steve Friedman, Zucker's producing predecessor at Today. "[He knew] that you can never be above the people you serve...
...While in concept the new album is worthy of the Cake name, the songs themselves have lost the power of past albums. The band has adopted a more pop sound that makes the fith track, “Carbon Monoxide,” written about public transportation in L.A., sound like a Green Day creation. Against a setlist of old and new from Cake, their newest tracks brought out power chords that only add to the band’s changing face. The new sound is not only the fault of a bassline-in-hiding and weak hooks...
...great call by [Defensive Coordinator Kevin] Doherty to give a disguised coverage in a situation where they’re going for the deep ball,” Finch explained. “We made our coverage look like a man-zone concept, and at the snap of the ball, everybody ran to their zones. The quarterback didn?...