In my experience, such high-concept stagings rarely if ever illuminate the work in question.
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High-concept market darlings make for tricky investments, as Chipotle and its true believers are now discovering.
According to Motorola CEO Ed ZANDR, the former handset should appear long before the high-concept later one.
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Meals were combinations of high-concept and traditional, using local ingredients for a sort of Arab slow-food vibe.
Within minutes of airing, the spot had already sparked a backlash on Twitter, that graveyard of high-concept ad campaigns.
In other words, it's not your typical high-concept Hollywood film, and some feel it might be a hard sell with mainstream audiences.
Dos Palillos's stools, created especially for the space, are gorgeous, high-concept pieces, meant to suggest standing up as much as sitting down.
Provide guests with penalty flags to throw during the famously high-concept commercials.
She's also managed to introduce high-concept design to an entirely new demographic.
Netflix offers something different: shows with good budgets, terrific casts, high-concept scripts, and the best talent in Hollywood writing, producing, and directing them.
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In the entertainment business, which often views writers as interchangeable, Mr. Grahame-Smith has branded himself as a one-man factory for quirky, high-concept, multimedia franchises.
Mr. Preston pieced together a blueprint for a high-concept adventure story with tiny robots, killer insects and an evil CEO of a nanotechnology firm.
At times, the casual, high-concept banter can be wearying, but what makes the proceedings more than an airy, intellectual stunt is the final filmed obstruction.
The exception that proves the rule: Used Guys, a high-concept comedy that was to star Ben Stiller and Jim Carey, which Fox pulled earlier this year.
Serious movies need big names, while high-concept events do not.
High-concept indie games become almost as anticipated as blockbuster games.
Vincent, Merrill Garbus's Tune-Yards and Laura Marling, who added a cello and brass to her retro-folk sound, presented polished, high-concept chamber pop, as did Other Lives, who impressed with melodramatic baroque folk featuring strings, orchestral synths and vocal harmonies in support of the quietly charismatic singer Jesse Tabish.
American Expedition Vehicles, which outfitted Mr. McConnell's Jeep, is trying to carve out a middle ground between the very expensive, high-concept restorations that ICON offers and the low end of the SUV customizing market represented by dozens of companies that sell kits for do-it-yourselfers to jack up the suspensions of their Jeep Wranglers.
Unlike the New York Theatre Workshop's horrendous high-concept 2010 revival of "The Little Foxes, " in which Ivo van Hove transplanted the action of the play from 1900 to Right This Second in order to underline its continuing relevance, Ms. Heffernan takes it for granted that you're smart enough to figure out that kind of thing all by yourself.
Whenever I see a musical-comedy audience consisting mainly of senior citizens and small chidren, as was the case in Philadelphia last Sunday, I can't help but remember the galvanizing originality of productions like the "Our Town"-flavored "Carousel" that Charles Newell staged at Chicago's Court Theatre in 2007, or Bill Rauch's high-concept "Music Man" at the 2009 Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Further developing a design form initiated on the LF-LC concept and the high-performance LFA, the sharply sculpted form of an airflow regulating fin flows from underneath the side of the car and upwards through the rear wheel arch.
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Companies in any industry can take a lesson from the world of high-tech, where the concept of agile development has taken hold, leading to unprecedented iterative and fast development times, and new ways of thinking about team dynamics.
If we end up with wearable computing and high-definition Google Glasses, this may not be such a far-fetched concept.
The high-end luxury watch is an evolving concept that has experienced a golden age over the last decade or so.
The Nikon COOLPIX cameras incorporate Nikon's world-class NIKKOR lenses, delivering accurate detail and brilliant color, as well as Nikon's EXPEEDTM digital image processing concept, which ensures high-quality pictures with stunning color and sharpness.
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We hesitate to bring up anything to do with the ongoing debacle that is SPOT, but the guys over at Microsoft's most left-of-center division helped popularize the concept of "glanceable" information -- ubiquitous, high-demand data (weather reports, for instance) that can be gleaned quickly and with little or no user input.
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So maybe it makes sense that as part of the YouTube initiative to create high-quality, ready-for-big-screen channels, Barnett cooked up the concept of a live show for that space.
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The roar of revving engines in high-net-worth autos ranging from a 1913 Isotta Fraschini IM to a token modern concept car reverberated through our bones as we awaited the start of the Louis Vuitton Classic Serenissima Run.
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