nytimes.com/sports TV DECODER The series "12 Miles of Bad Road" was conceived as a comedy but turned into a tragedy for HBO.
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad — so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed — that they're actually rather good.
Founded in 2011 by five tastemakers nearing graduation, Ain't-Bad Magazine was conceived out of necessity.
The Bad Sex Award was conceived in response to a sense that Lawrentian freedoms had quickly become clichéd.
Ironically, the bad sex awards were originally conceived, in 1993, to celebrate good sex, before the editor, Auberon Waugh, was advised by co-founder, Rhoda Koenig, that this might be "less interesting" than plucking out the clichéd and the corny.
Owners of new units planned while prices were at their peak may be loath to chop prices in the wake of the housing downturn, but newly approved units, conceived amid the bad news of the past year, should enter the market priced to move.So while prices for existing homes appear to have fallen around 5 percent nationwide, the median price for new homes is down about 17 percent from its highs.
Director Aukin (of 4000 Miles and Bad Jews --who also conceived the show--gives us something located midway between Dreamgirls and Jews --whos.
In the interview she expressed her feeling that this recently conceived child was "bad luck", explaining that she did not want another child when she was unemployed.
"The Federal Reserve … has not, in the past, been conceived as a place where you put in bad assets, possibly bad assets," he told Charlie Rose last night.
Jay designed layered streetwear that seemed high-spirited and well conceived, even as he fretted, bad-mouthed the competition and acted as if he did everything at the last minute.
