Yet as a game critic who spends more personal time twitching my hips than twiddling my thumbs, I'm convinced that ambitious artists and executives in the struggling music industry will recognize "Biophilia" as a vital step forward in rethinking how their work can be conceived, packaged, delivered and made relevant to the public.
Whether the big food companies, already expert in conceiving, packaging and promoting convenience foods according to their own nutritional standards, will invest heavily in healthier foods -- and put marketing muscle behind them -- remains to be seen.
Likewise the Corcoran's "Setting Out to Fish" is, for all its apparent spontaneity, a studio painting conceived and packaged for the Salon.
Yet the two films are joined at the hip, conceived as a package and produced that way through a joint effort by 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks.
Iranian politics is conceived as a packaged project, conducted by the supreme leader according to a largely rigid mindset, and coloured by personal sentiment.
But whether it does or not, it has already signaled a fundamental shift in the way major public works projects are conceived, promoted and packaged, not just in New York but all over the country.
Barry Levy Hawthorne, Calif., Jan . 29 , 2009 To the Editor: Re "The Stimulus Advances" (editorial, Jan. 29): There was not one single Republican vote for the stimulus package as conceived by President Obama.
Such an omission was understandable when the package was conceived mainly as stimulus, which implies short-term action to jolt the economy.
Another way of saying all this is that if a stimulus package is conceived without embedding that investment in a strategic plan that will lead to the creation new institutions, then we have a fundamental problem: we are generating debt, not value.
EK initially conceived of the intervention package trial and drafted the original intention letter.
