"National Bingo Night" is as cleverly conceived as it is simple-minded to play: the producers devised a way to showcase contestants, battle the game's fusty image and even tap into the "interactivity" fad that pervades so many reality shows — and their advertising schemes.
The group also wrote to the Food and Drug Administration, characterizing the advice as part of a misinformation campaign devised to play down the risks of implants, and urging health officials to put a stop to it.
"SMILF" has something to say about class, and it tends to say it, as it says most things, obliquely, with occasional lines devised to play to the back of the room.
The prime-time portion of the spectacle was devised to play down race and highlight Mr. Obama's presidential stature: Stevie Wonder sang "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours," but a group of retired generals and Susan Eisenhower, a Russian affairs expert who is the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, waxed lyrical about the senator's readiness for the Oval Office.
One 1922 newspaper article described Goebel's knee brace this way: "To enable Goebel to play, the Michigan trainers devised a steel brace – a hinge.
New York, which suffered so brutally in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, deserves to play a key role in devising the machinery to make such tragedies much less likely in the future.
She met high-achieving women who, afraid to put men off, devise strategies to play down their affluence.
I Hope My Heart Goes First is a play devised by teenagers for teenagers, and tipped to be one of the big stories of this year's Festival Fringe.
At a time when national and local governments are trying to find cheaper, more efficient ways of providing information and other resources, service design is likely to play an increasingly important role in devising new models.
Joseph Tiberi, a spokesman for the machinists union, said his union would work with United but said the airline had to allow unions to play more of a role in devising a solution.
