Word: concepting
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...social. After several years of being enthralled by big-city yuppie- coms, the networks realized, says NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier, that "the urban work setting was getting old." That meant a return to the domestic comedy - but with a difference. To stand out, says "Geena" creator Terry Minsky, "concept-wise, you need something more interesting. It's not enough to just do the typical family...
...play details the characters' struggle with this concept of roleplaying and asks whether they have any freedom given the certainty of their fates. Antigone is therefore a largely verbal affair, but the first few scenes establish a questionable tone. Mike Weidman '02, who plays the Chorus, is loud, clear and expressive, but so smarmy as he introduces the play that one would expect him to be quite knowingly introducing a bad Saturday Night Live sketch rather than Anouilh's searching parable. Beatrice Kitzinger '03, Caitlin Harrington '03 and Liz Clinkenbeard '01, as Antigone, her sister Ismene, and her nurse, respectively...
Whenever I stop and find myself contemplating the original Blair Witch Project (something that doesn't seem to occur all that often), I almost always realize that my thoughts never seem to dwell on the actual movie itself. Because really, what made that novel, dirt-cheap, better-in-concept-than-execution horror film explode into an orgiastic pop culture triumph was all the creativity that went on outside of it. Directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick didn't come close to producing the most starkly terrifying film ever (still Jaws, hands down), yet their marketing campaign...
...worried, however, that open-plan offices are about to go the way of the cherrywood executive corridor. Despite the many drawbacks, no one is predicting the concept's imminent demise. The cost of real estate is just too high, and open plans are cheaper space at higher density. The challenge that open space--in fact, any space--must confront is that "work is changing more rapidly than the environment," says Judith Heerwagen, an environmental psychologist in Seattle, "and we have to catch up and understand it better...
Tesauro says it will take years before the concept of competition takes a firm hold in Italy. "Maybe 10 years have not been enough to shake up a system that was so encrusted with state control. You can do a lot with the Antitrust Authority, and you can do a lot with laws, but in the end, you have to transform a culture of protection to one of competition," he says. He points to telephones: real competition meant a drop in prices and better service...