Word: concepting
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...couldn't last, and it didn't. The Monkees' golden age ended, appropriately, with the concept carried to its logical extreme, a Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson film called "Head" that was essentially about the destruction of the group. The Monkeees were not a Woodstock kind of band, and most definitely not a post-Altamont proposition. But for a brief span, they were a bona fide phenomenon, a brilliant, opportunistic creation that somehow also managed to encapsulate the giddy, innocent sincerity...
...against excessive entanglement with religion. Ever since President Clinton signed the 'charitable choice' provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, we have seen religious groups vying for government funding in specific areas under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and Human Services. Bush, however, seeks to expand this concept widely across the federal government, including the Departments of Education, Labor, Justice and Housing and Urban Development. But difficulties have arisen in determining which groups are "too religious" to receive government...
Just when it seemed Radiohead had cornered the market for man-against-machine concept albums, Canadian alt-rockers Our Lady Peace (OLP) are hoping to capitalize on the current fascination with odd futuristic visions with their fourth album, Spiritual Machines. The band credits Ray Kurzweil's book, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, with providing both the album's title and its inspiration. Kurzweil, known for his work in advanced speech recognition, is convinced that the line between human society and technology is becoming increasingly blurred and that computers will eventually become our companions and teachers...
...would audit four safety systems at each of the nine other top airlines. It cited only unspecified "concerns." The other carriers audited--United, Delta, American, Continental, Northwest, US Airways, Southwest, America West and TWA--were, like Alaska, already participating in ATOS. "We had no real problems with the concept of the FAA coming in," notes John Marshall, head of safety for Delta Airlines...
...Cose they is. N------, you see, is a metaphysical concept rather than a racial designation, and as such, it partakes of the prestige of abstraction...