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...demand for these olfactory services--by stores, hotels, casinos and even museums--is stimulated by a growing body of research that demonstrates how smells affect consumer behavior. Advertising studies in Martin Lindstrom's book Brand Sense suggest that although most contemporary commercial messages are aimed at our eyes, many of the emotion-triggering moments people remember on a given day are actually prompted by smell. And scents, experiments have shown, can evoke an array of sensations. Citrus notes, for example, are perceived to be energizing or invigorating, whereas vanilla can suggest warmth and comfort...
...show - was something fresh in musicals. But a lot has changed since those pre-AIDS, pre-Andrew Lloyd Webber days. For one thing, the self-referential, show-about-a-show device has become the easiest and most insular of Broadway crutches (see The Drowsy Chaperone or Martin Short's Fame Becomes Me). As good as A Chorus Line was, you could also consider it the start of the Broadway musical's long slide toward irrelevance. Who wants to relive that moment...
...Medical School became the most recent Harvard organ in search of a new chief executive yesterday when Dean Joseph B. Martin announced that he would conclude his term in July.The Medical School will now begin a dean search at the same time as Harvard looks for a new president and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seeks to find a new dean.The search won’t be concluded for several months. Interim President Derek C. Bok, who has already said that he will not select the next Faculty dean himself, has chosen as well to defer this decision...
...seems strange that these thirtysomething acting icons would admit to this kind of fear or hesitation. But when considering the pedigrees of director Martin Scorsese and co-star Nicholson, and the hype surrounding this gangster thriller—which might just be “The Godfather” of this generation—the viewer might sympathize with their anxieties...
...DepartedDirected by Martin ScorseseWarner Bros. Pictures5 starsMartin Scorsese returns to his old tricks in “The Departed,” a gangster pic with bullets and octane overflowing in spades. Long, bloody, complex, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the pair’s best collaboration by far, this modern mobster epic can only mean one thing: Marty’s back.When a movie is directed by Scorsese, stars DiCaprio and Matt Damon, and is produced by Brad Pitt, there are high expectations all around. “The Departed” meets them eye to eye.The past...