Word: conceptive
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...Hermes' famous Kelly bag. Finding Nemo is easier than finding this bag: it sold out in two days at Steven Stolman in Southampton, N.Y. The tongue-in-chic bags ($60 to $145) are made by Chiarini, a small firm in Florence, Italy. Says Stolman: "It's a great concept to do the world's most expensive handbag in the world's cheapest material." --By Kate Betts
...married women, led to a flood of honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which detailed nearly nine decades in the life of a housewife turned gardening columnist; of complications from breast cancer; in Victoria, B.C. Rejecting the idea that fiction must be high concept, she said, "I wanted wallpaper in my novels, cereal bowls, cupboards ... head colds, cramps...
...lengthened their vacations, Americans were concluding that you could be happy only if you work hard and play hard. So they began to stay at their jobs longer than ever and then, in jam-packed weekends at places like the Hamptons on Long Island, invented the uniquely American concept of scheduled joy, filling a day off with one appointment after another, as if it were no different from one at the office. American conservatives, meanwhile, came to believe that Europeans' desire to devote themselves to the pleasures of life and - the shame of it!--six weeks annual vacation was evidence...
...would contextualize Trio's role as a pop-culture arbiter and other phrases I remembered from the Matthew Barney exhibit. I didn't mention my real plan: to see if I could get ridiculous garbage on TV. Jackson liked the idea so much that Trio made the My Trio concept a quarterly gimmick, with Quentin Tarantino taking over in the fall. Tarantino got top billing on the press release...
...five-dollar t-shirt on the part of a vendor might be returned with a $50,000 purchase by an information technology manager. Businesses call it customer relationship management (CRM for short), or “touch” or leveraging relationships. Whatever you call it, the concept is simple: even when the business involves tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, transactions are still a person-to-person affair, and flattery will get you everywhere...