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Psychologist Paul Ekman ran the film over and over until he found the clue. Mary, a housewife who had attempted suicide three times and had been confined to a mental institution, appeared chipper and confident onscreen as she asked - her doctor for a weekend pass. Her interview, secretly shot for research purposes, was so convincing that Mary got the pass, but she subsequently admitted that she had been lying and had wanted to get away for another suicide try. By slowing down the film, Ekman found that Mary's face had sagged into despair, a telltale "microexpression" that lasted only...
...expenses, his last TV interview cost CBS $500,000, and his last move from New York to New Jersey netted him a real-estate profit of more than $1.5 million. Though his wife Pat is in frail health after a second stroke last fall, Nixon is quite fit and chipper. Using a new Lanier word processor, he is tapping out his fifth post-White House book, No More Viet Nams. Though there was speculation that he might even play some role at this month's Republican Convention in Dallas, he declined...
...night when the jet made its approach to Washington National Airport. Next morning at 10:30, Hart showed up chipper and smiling in Lexington, Ky. He had to meet voters, shake hands, work the crowd. -By David Beckwith
...home-ice advantage to slow the icewomen and prevent them from playing their game. One a hot afternoon, the Coliseum was super-heated to almost 60 degrees in a move that sufficiently softened the ice. That forced Harvard's superior skaters to slow down and play the chipper game that their hosts prefer...
...quite accurately as making the minimal concessions necessary to keep a rebellious Congress from attacking the core of his program, chiefly the income tax cuts, the social spending rollback and the big military buildup. For that matter, the change in tone is also less than total. Echoes of the chipper, partisan Reagan of yore rang through the President's remarks last week, and doubtless will resound in the State of the Union speech as well. At his news briefing, Reagan once more pinned blame for the recession on "the overtaxing, overspending, over-regulating binge...