Stolfa used her job as a bartender at McGlinchey's, a neighborhood tavern in Center City Philadelphia, to present an inventive point of view on a seemingly ordinary subject.
There was evidence Monday that Maya Moore, UConn's three-time national player of the year, was already yesterday's news after being outdone by Notre Dame's inventive point guard Skylar Diggins.
The works reflect the inventive point of view Mr. Coupland brings to his writing, like an installation he created in the entry hall by placing, on a ledged wall, pieces of various shapes and colors taken from vintage building kits, or the oversize detergent bottle in the hallway, his own work, titled appropriately, "Downy Fabric Softener".
Drederick grew up in the Bronx, a friend and teammate of Rod Strickland, the inventive, aggressive point guard who played in the N.B.A. for sixteen years.
66) The Destroyed Room Taking its title from Jeff Wall's famed photograph of a ransacked room, which makes the viewer wonder what happened to leave it in such a state, the latest from the brilliantly inventive Vanishing Point considers Western privilege and the threats it faces.
His music was rather dull, but his stage show was impressive and inventive: at one point, he dressed his two female dancers in prosthetic bikinis that wittily exaggerated the parts they were meant to cover.
Some are strikingly, even piratically, similar to international brands of coffee; others are inventive to the point of oddness.
The writing for strings is idiomatic and inventive; at one point, Greenwood devises a buzzing barrage of "Bartók pizzicato" — sharply plucked sounds from violins cradled like ukuleles.
Driving in Caracas can get inventive, and at one point Poe's car ended up on the sidewalk, scattering pedestrians who seemed not overly surprised.
On the other hand, something of the movie's substance, or lack of it, emerges in Banks's direction, which, even if it's not particularly inventive, does reflect a point of view on the enterprise and even, if obliquely, on life more generally.
Yet it isn't a derogation of the black vernacular -- a marvelously rich and inventive tongue -- to point out that there's a language of the marketplace, too, and learning to speak that language has generally been a precondition for economic success, whoever you are.
