They are replete with mechanisms designed to compensate for "information poverty". Although we are now information affluent, we still use those mechanisms, which are now deeply embedded in automated systems.
Despite more than four decades of lecture-style, abstinence-only, drug education programs -- replete with messages designed to frighten students and backed up with "zero tolerance" punishment -- the use of alcohol and marijuana is common among high school students, and most young people accept it as part of teenage social life.
Club Silencio, inspired by a key location from Lynch's enigmatic 2001 film, is set to open in the French capital this September, replete with an interior designed by the director himself.
Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the ruling Workers' party of Korea, devoted its entire front page to Kim's arrival in Hanoi the previous day, replete with colour photos designed to burnish his credentials as an emerging global leader.
As the band grew more successful, its live shows developed a distinct theatrical bent, replete with elaborate stage designs and props, and The Decemberists became one of indie rock's most popular concert draws.
There's more to come this weekend, including, of course, the exciting Saturday opening of Joffrey Ballet's much-anticipated new version of "The Nutcracker," replete with Broadway-level designs, a new narrative and fresh choreography from Christopher Wheeldon.
It invests significantly more in design and usability, where its rivals don't; as an organization, Apple is more like a design studio (replete with control freak overlord) than a "company". Rivals never invested in design — because design was seen, in biz parlance, as a "cost center", not a "profit center", a frivolous, soft, unproductive use of hard-earned capital.
The aural and visual trappings of horror are there -- in Danny Elfman's throbbing, stabbing score and in a sound design replete with growls, howls, creaks and shrieks -- but the dread never quite takes hold.
Shown off in a short teaser clip, the latest evolution of the firm's SpotMini robotic dog has ditched the snapping-claw-for-a-head in exchange for a creepier headless design replete with soft, yellow plastics and eerily smooth movements.
Not for nothing is the longest-running musical ever on Broadway, "The Phantom of the Opera," a major eye-filler, replete with fat Belle Époque designs, the occasional falling chandelier and a stage-crossing gondola.
In the spring of 1939, on the eve of the war, she had apprised the same correspondent: "I am starting to read the unexpurgated edition of 'Mein Kampf.' Have you read it?" "The Queen Mother" is more a document replete with data than a book designed to entertain.
