Word: conceptive
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...this winter to hear Dole on the Sunday chat shows saying he might go along with Clinton's effort to raise the minimum wage in return for the President's agreeing to cut capital-gains taxes. As one Senate aide put it last week, "Dole does not have any concept of the political advantage of losing. There are times when you make your political point better by losing, or at least by risking losing." That pragmatism frustrates the new daredevil Republicans in the Senate. And it marks a distinct contrast with the style of Newt Gingrich, whose entire political career...
Moreover, the very concept of "disability" has become clouded. While few would dispute that those who are blind, deaf or in wheelchairs have special needs, the law's vague definition of a disability as "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities" has provoked an outcropping of frivolous lawsuits. In Indiana a customer filed a complaint against a restaurant because a waiter refused to carve the meat for the man's ailing mother. A Louisiana television anchorwoman sued for time off to receive fertility treatments. In each case, the charges were thrown...
...contained three rapturous songs, including the title track; its 1993 follow-up, Diary of a Mad Band, also featured a trio of handsome soul numbers, including Cry for You. Its newest CD, however, offers not just a few potential hit singles but a whole album of appealing music. Its "concept" is to take listeners through a night or so with Jodeci--the parties, the flirtations with female fans and so on. The songs flow into one another as the night winds on. Melodic rhythms rise--like the cooing Pump It Back--and recede. One song, the sublimely earthy Good...
...Hollywood wanted to make him a star, so he tries that in Nine Months, a big burly romp from director Chris Columbus (the Home Alone hits, Mrs. Doubtfire). Yet another high-concept comedy based on a French film, Nine Months tracks a child psychologist (Grant) and his dance-teacher lover (Julianne Moore, acute as always) from pregnancy through delivery of a baby the man isn't at all ready...
...that haunted houses can't: develop elaborate story lines, depict complex emotions, lift the audience by means other than hydraulics. Species, written by Dennis Feldman, does some of that, at least in its first hour. This sci-fi horror opus also has the summer's sexiest High Concept: Alien meets The Fugitive. The escaped monster is on the prowl for a mate in Los Angeles--and she's babe-a-licious...