Word: conceptive
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Though one would expect to find Monty Python at the bottom of such a concept, the writers of this ambitious parody were three Californians who had the idea while putting up skits at their local Renaissance Faire. They decided the idea was so brilliant that they wrote down the bare bones of the performance and took it on the road, producing it throughout the known world before retiring and turning the script over to those who need it most; namely, pre-midterm college students with a pent-up urge for nose-thumbing...
...Orlando, Fla., and Kids 'N Need in Los Angeles, opened last month. The Kids 'N Need "resource center," located in a World Vision warehouse, is colorfully stocked with shelves of notebooks, vats of pencils, writing paper, dictionaries. It mimics a retail center, minus price tags. "Teachers love the concept," explains SHOPA president Steven Jacober. "A visit seems more like a shopping trip than a charity handout...
...target audience is now 50 and ready to travel without the kids. "Imagine," says Circus Circus president Glenn Schaeffer, "somebody will turn 49 every 13 seconds for the next 15 years, and they have the highest household income and the fastest spending rate." Circus pioneered the low-end family concept during the late 1970s and made it work for more than a decade. But Schaeffer was brought in after a management shakeup to arrest declining numbers...
After the initial agreement, Harvard was given 90 days to draft a concept proposition for the Moscow government...
...that found in John Waters's recent, limp Pecker), director Yu has made a B-movie that can easily stand next to such giants as Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Plan 9 From Outer Space and Troma classics like Surf Nazis Must Die and Class of Nuke'em High. The concept is not just perfectly ridiculous--that didn't save the dull, dull, dull Leprechaun 4: In Space-- but is also perfectly executed, with humor and style...