Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...High Concept is the no-fault insurance of the entertainment business, a brief description that both sells and sums up a movie or TV show. So leave it to the folks at Disney, the Everest of High Concept, to produce a movie based on this line: "Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin as twin twins." All twists and splits of the story proceed from this inspiration; the concept propels the plot. After a merging of those stars and that theme, everything else is just homework...
...should've pressed harder") and giddy with her first sip of high life in a Plaza bathroom ("Cute little soaps in the shape of swans! Could you die!"). Tomlin plays the Roses, but Midler is a fistful of Daisys: Miller, Buchanan and Mae. She is more than High Concept. As a movie star, even in this efficient little comedy, Bette is heaven in high heels...
...late 1970s, she says, women at Harvard commonly found themselves stereotyped as less competent than their male counterparts. Horner describes being the only woman at an administrative discussion of a complicated mathematical concept. The man leading the meeting asked Horner to say when she understood the idea, as an indication to him that he was making himself clear. Horner says the man had assumed it would be difficult for a woman to grasp the complicated concept...
...point, the better you have done. This culture's predominant ethic dictates that the acquisition of "more"--more money, more material goods, more power than others have--is the only acceptable goal of life. The now-famous saying, "The one who dies with the most possessions, wins," reflects the concept that tangible wealth is the standard on which success should be measured...
...them or you've gotten laid on them." It wasn't the most practical idea to allow artists to indulge their whimsy at the expense of the hundreds of students who wanted to play frisbee on the field or walk across it unimpeded, but the concept and the execution alike were good for a few chuckles. The picnic tables and the ice walls were even as aesthetically pleasing as they were visually disarming...