"What genius thought this up?" said Karen Fisher, president of Designer Previews, which exhibits the work of 300 interior designers and architects.
What follows, in the deft script by screenwriter Chris Terrio, resembles an archetypal heist movie, with some borrowing from the celebrated second world war intelligence hoax "the man who never was", a plan of genius thought up by the brother of Hitchcock's pre-war producer, and later used by Hitch as the basis for North by Northwest.
Fortunately, Mike Bartlett, the genius, thought of it and it's brilliant.
Healthy employees save the company money and are more productive, and Quit Genius thinks it can not only help employees get healthier but give employers a way to track that progress.
Cunningham commented sarcastically: "Such was the reward then, to which the patrons of genius thought these works entitled".
Not because Halloween isn't socially significant — All Hallow's Eve became an official American holiday when some genius thought up candy-corn lights and fog machines went retail — but because it's redundant.
Skulls were worth collecting because genius, thought some at that time, would be evident in the remains of a man like Shakespeare, whose character Hamlet famously holds a skull while musing on death.
But assuming the CIA plans are real, why on earth do all these national security geniuses think this is a good idea?
The temptation is to treat physical genius in the same way that we treat intellectual genius — to think of it as something that can be ascribed to a single factor, a physical version of I.Q.
"But through his guidance, mentorship and genius, I think I turned into a man".
