by Ian Howarth | Dec 6, 2016 | Entertainment
Music in advertising is the most common technique for aiding memorability ( a word I didn’t think existed until I saw it in this article on-line) and hence product recall. So says an April, 2011 article in Music Quarterly. Music and memory have an enduring...
by Ian Howarth | Sep 19, 2016 | Entertainment
Ron Howard knows a little about what it’s like to be in the public eye. As a child actor, he starred as Opie in The Andy Griffith Show that ran from 1960-69. The Opie label would be one he had trouble shaking even as he then segued into the role of teen good guy...
by Ian Howarth | Sep 7, 2016 | News
It occurred to me that in all the media coverage that Donald Trump has garnered throughout his campaign to become the Republican presidential nominee (and now in his campaign for the presidency), I have rarely, if ever, seen him smile. It’s more like a grimace,...
by Ian Howarth | Aug 22, 2016 | Sports
After 16 days of having the TV on for about 16 hours a day, I can now return to my normal diet of HBO and Netflix. Which should cut down my tube time by half. The Olympic Games, this the XXXI Summer Olympiad (so rare is the opportunity to use Roman numerals these...
by Ian Howarth | Feb 19, 2014 | News, Sports
Olympic semantics, Losing Graciously & Pope Francis With the Sochi Olympics more than halfway through, so far nothing has gone wrong, if you don’t count the optics of the fact that this is the only Olympics I can remember where palm trees are part of the...
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