It was the experience covering leadership news and issues that led her to dream up the "Presidential" podcast, which she envisioned as a way to investigate the historical successes and failures of various leadership styles in the White House.
After buying a basket that she deemed large enough to carry a grocery bag, she caught a cab to the Store at the Museum of Arts and Design on Columbus Circle, where she picked out a bowl made from beads of recycled paper, woven together with cotton thread, which she envisioned holding supplies and tools on a desk.
In 1919, with Duchamp as her muse, Dreier more or less invented the concept of the modern-art museum, which she envisioned as an institution of international scope dedicated to making the art of the moment comprehensible to the public, through exhibitions, publications, lectures, concerts and a library.
Ms. Saariaho's fascination — more accurately, obsession — with light shines through recent works like her concerto "Notes on Light" (2007), in which she envisions the solo cello as a source of light.
To give herself a mental edge, she practices visualization exercises in which she envisions herself defeating her opponent and routinely repeats such affirmations as, "I'm the best; I enjoy winning; I'm ambitious and self-assured".
One of the book's finer scenes depicts a nightmarish episode at a summer camp (always a rich source of terror) that seals their conflict: Josie, an asthmatic, is stranded by Judith and her cronies in a pit, where she suffers a hallucinatory attack in which she envisions memories from her life tucked inside a series of cabinet drawers.
Given the quality of the performance overall, Ada's grand Act 2 aria, in which she envisions future misfortunes but resolves to brave them for love's sake, stood out more than it might otherwise, thanks to an exciting rendition by Elisabet Strid, a soprano with a bright, flexible voice of ample power.
Recently, I asked Margaret about her new partnership with First Lady Michelle Obama's Let Girls Learn Initiative, wondering if it had changed the way in which she envisions possibilities for her work.
The Huffington Post chatted with Kadlec this week about Bluestockings Boutique and the ways in which she envisions it serving the needs of the queer community.
Wilson, a local artist and self-described "tinkerer," is in the process of buying a building in Detroit's Core City neighborhood to use as a studio and a workspace, which she envisions neighborhood kids using.
She said they would cost too much, take too long and violate the spirit of the tribunal, which she said envisioned "only a small number of trials".
