A couple of the poems are loosely based on them, but mostly they're just the product of hours spent sitting around, thinking about what habits I find irritating and devising ways in which they could lead to sticky ends.
They hope to open up an industry still dominated by nerds who love nothing more than to devise scenarios in which they get to shoot the fuck out of some aliens with a massive gun and save the world.
Confronted with these men, Oppenheimer struck upon an audacious and bizarre storytelling device: he invited Congo and several of his fellow-executioners to make their own movie about the purge, telling the story through dramatic reënactments of their devising, in which they would portray not only themselves but also people they interrogated, tortured, and killed.
At about the same time, an operation was devised in which the spermatic ducts were tied off.
But it is also built on motifs that Mr. Stucky, 55, based on a code he devised, in which the letters of the alphabet were assigned to musical pitches.
For example, at the insistence of Feig and the producer, Judd Apatow, a gross-out sequence was devised in which the women, while trying on fancy dresses at a bridal salon, undergo digestive inconveniences.
Courses are also being devised in which periods of education, training, and paid employment in schools alternate with one another to make up a four- or five-year program.
There is even a peculiar, one-of-a-kind "pan-chess" board that Xul Solar devised, in which the pieces represent letters and symbols and the squares (12 by 13 instead of the conventional 8 by 8) syllables; together they create new words in the invented tongues.
Some grand Matisses, "Bathers with a Turtle" and "Nasturtiums with Dance II", for example, which are not in London, are to join the show later.Tate Modern may be one of the most hostile environments yet devised in which to see art.
A restart routine was devised, in which previous purging was avoided.
