For those willing to forgive the occasional misstep, "The Art Forger" will reward their forbearance and, through its engaging premise, their intelligence.
Despite its sluggish start and bloated length, John Katzenbach's psychological thriller THE ANALYST (Ballantine, $25) redeems itself through the sheer sadism of its premise.
Our "chunking-through-averaging" premise may provide a simpler, and perhaps unifying, position to this debate.
The show looks great and the "rich-get-immortality-through-body-snatching" premise is a trope that always plays well (even if it does strike a little too close to home these days).
And President Bush deemed it appropriate not only to tour me, to guide me through the premises of this house where he lives, we saw almost every picture hanging on the walls of this great building.
Pictures collected by shopkeepers up and down the high street paint a vivid but unedifying picture of filth with rot and raw sewage running through many premises.
At the opening of a Bangkok plant in 1949, for instance, the inauguration rites were conducted by nine Buddhist priests, who went through the premises dabbing gold paint on the bottle-washing machines and on the bottlers' foreheads.
The new Soweto market, which opened in 2009, has capacity for 1,600 vendors, but it was easily less than half full, judging by a stroll through the premises on Monday, when both vendors and customers were thin on the ground.
When you hear that the livestock in your custody has been granted permission to clomp through the premises of a national treasure that houses hundreds of priceless antiques, you do not feel unequivocal joy — particularly when the beast has been known to kick backward if a threat from the rear is perceived.
Stew Leonard's carries only about two thousand different items — for instance, no diapers, hardly any canned goods — and you will likely walk by them all, owing to the serpentine layout that, as in an IKEA showroom, dogmatically dictates your zigs and zags through the premises.
Add a handful of single works by women strategically installed through the premises — a Louise Bourgeois sculpture introduces the grand sweep of European Modernism on the fourth floor; one of Lee Lozano's hammerhead paintings commands the fourth-floor public space — and the curatorial rethinking sparked by Ms. Murray's show becomes clear.
