Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientific conviction that there is more in TV than meets the eye. Each move, grimace or gesture, however slight or unconscious, spells a meaning to Birdwhistell (pronounced bird whistle)-a meaning that does not always fit what the performer may be saying out loud. The University of Buffalo's Birdwhistell calls his specialty "kinesics," the study of body motions as a form of communication...
...from an occasional deadpan expression; his stiff body contributes the rest of the impression. Even so, the reputation is unjustified, because sharp-eyed Dr. Birdwhistell has found that, by actual count, his face motions are average for the U.S.-"less than someone from Atlanta, but more than someone from Buffalo...
According to Hoyle. In Buffalo, a grand jury criticized card playing on the floor of the county jail, recommended that additional tables be provided...
...government press told it, the Nasser men were guided by simple principles. All "imperialist, reactionary and opportunist elements" were eliminated. Amateurs who entered only for publicity were not tolerated. Some were eliminated for their own good, such as one fellah who sold his water buffalo and two-thirds of an acre of land to run for Parliament; the council rejected him in a kindly way on the grounds that he should not waste his substance in a candidacy which they considered hopeless. When other grounds failed, candidates were stricken off "for considerations of the National Union or certain policies"-that...
...have survived the intrusions of modern life, e.g., remote hamlets of the Appalachians, tiny islands off the Georgia coast. But whatever else he does, Belafonte knows that he wants to go on touring the country. Says he: "I've got to get to Hays, Kansas, Salt Lake City, Buffalo, Wichita, farming and industrial areas. It's the only way to find out what people are accepting and rejecting. I don't want to hear some character on Madison Avenue tell me what the pulse of the nation is. He doesn't even know his own pulse...