It combines an old-fashioned premise (disgruntled psycho holds celebrity hostage) with a fresh spin (he's a victim of the financial recession) and will likely play out of competition.
The group that has designated itself -- unless I missed the election -- to choose a citywide book has done so on the old-fashioned premise that the book it chooses should be good for you, good for all of us, in fact.
Out of this gossamer premise, Coward fashioned a high-camp masterpiece in which normality is turned on its head and "bad" becomes "good".
From this splendid premise John Krasinski has fashioned a robust and frightening fable of predation and survival, set in upstate New York.
The play is fashioned around a simple but effective premise.
The sushi is made fresh on the premises: 150 choices of maki-style rolls, hand rolls, spring rolls and sashimi plates, all attractive and fashioned with imagination.
It's a neat premise, and the grab bag of brilliant bits that is all we know of Sappho's life might, in defter hands, have been fashioned into shimmering whole cloth.
While Mr. Italiano's truck drew the eyes, the nose and mouth went right to the pies themselves while exhibitors of toppings cut deals with sauce makers, crust providers and oven salesmen to fashion fresh, baked-on-the-premises pies that would mutually promote their products.
Weiner states that this presumption is "always contained, in question-begging fashion, in the premise of" arguments that the government be required to justify any restrictions on liberty as reasoned rather than arbitrary.
She is loved for taking an old-fashioned approach to fashion, creating iconic images that further the premise that fashion is more art form than cold, hard commerce.
