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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cortland added insurance and what turned out to be the game-winning goal at 10:29 of the second half. After a lot of scrambling and several missed opportunities on an open net, wing Cydney Archer slid the ball over the line from just two feet out for a 2-0 advantage...
...Archer, who teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz, gave his own S.I. tests to 2,400 men and women. They were asked multiple-choice questions about the status or relationship of people in a series of photographs like those on this page. Archer says that his subjects showed a fairly high ability to read the pictures correctly, but parents were better at it than nonparents, presumably because they had learned to decipher the babbling of babies. Women were more adept than men, which seems to indicate that "female intuition" is no sexist myth. And actors rated high...
...Archer is now at work on a 30-minute film based on his book. Consisting mostly of self-test sequences introduced by him, it will be distributed next year by McGraw-Hill to corporations, universities and governmental agencies...
...Archer maintains that most people can improve their S.I. simply by staying alert to subtle clues, just as a criminal learns to spot a plainclothesman by some quirk of manner or dress, or a basketball star tells a head fake from a real jump shot by some giveaway preliminary movement. He even has a solution to the age-old problem of how to choose the quickest line at a fast-food restaurant: go for the one with the most young adults wearing backpacks; they generally turn out to be students or bicycle riders ordering only for themselves...
...have risen to the top of prison society solely on the basis of physical prowess. Discipline is maintained through beatings, buggery and other less colorful forms of brutality. In Scum, alas, no redeemer appears to offer even brief hope of change. The only appealing character is an individualist named Archer (Mick Ford), whose rebelliousness is of a highly personal sort. He is a vegetarian and an atheist whose insistence on special treatment throws sand into the system, but not the monkey wrench that would bring it to a halt. There is also a hard case named Carlin (Ray Winstone), whose...