Word: songfulness
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...many brain-boosting websites and digital games, however, would have you believing otherwise. HAPPYneuron, a $100 Web-based brain-training site, entices visitors to "give the gift of brain fitness" and claims that its users saw "16%+ improvement" through exercises such as learning to associate a bird's song with its species and shooting basketballs through virtual hoops. Nintendo's best-selling Brain Age game promises to "give your brain the workout it needs" through exercises like solving math problems and playing rock, paper, scissors on the handheld...
...American in the White House began to seem probable - he downloaded a new ringtone onto his phone, of Obama chanting "Yes we can! Yes we can!" As the election results rolled in, Diarra joined the celebrations on Bamako's streets, and changed his ringtone again, to Obama's victory song by Stevie Wonder, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," which he has kept ever since. His taxi's dashboard is decorated with stickers of Obama's face. And during the hours he spends chugging through Bamako's streets, he has created his own jingles, which he belts out - windows rolled down, fist pumping...
...Transformers 2, is the action movie series about giant robots that tens of millions of people should have been paying to see this summer. The NYAFF showed the first two parts in a trilogy; the final installment opens in Japan next month. Taking its title from a T. Rex song and based on a manga by Naoki Urasawa that has sold some 20 million copies, this fantasy of an alternative Japanese history imagines that the lines and pictures scrawled by a club of kids in the '70s has become the Book of Prophesies by a cult whose leader, known only...
...Originally a series of spots for MTV India, the feature version is lovingly, lavishly, almost libelously indebted to Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns. It also makes passing reference to The Terminator, Pulp Fiction and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - and, since every Indian film needs a production number, it filches a song from the 1968 Tamil musical Oli Vilakku. By the end, when Quick Gun comes out blazing with eight gun-totin' arms, the movie has fulfilled the agenda of the NYAFF: to render its audience happy and helpless with head-swiveling astonishment...
Reaper, Grim • continuing insatiability of for celebrity blood claims Karl Malden, • and Harve Presnell, • and Fred Travelena, • and Billy Mays, • and Gale Storm, • and Sky Saxon, whose band The Seeds, had the great song "Pushin' Too Hard...