Word: deceitful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 one twenty- fourth of a second. Later he found other quick movements of deceit: part of a hand shrug, the brief lift of a shoulder...
...large caveat: even the best liar catchers cannot be right 100% of the time. The ear tugger, the evasive rambler and the fellow who refuses to look you in the eye may be lying, but they may instead be fidgety truth tellers who are afraid of being accused of deceit. The person who rubs his nose every 30 seconds may be dissembling, or he may simply be displaying a lifelong nervous habit. Diplomats, natural performers and pathological liars are often impossible to read. Says Ekman: "We live in a probabilistic world. You're only going to make an estimate." (Nazi...
...field, the Americans were encouraged to lie about their "body counts" (measuring progress in the war by lives taken, not land taken). Viet Nam gave rise to an elaborate language of deceit. Officialese was done in the Latinate: incursion, attrition, pacification, termination with extreme prejudice. The linguistic underside of that was the flip, sinister slang that the American G.I.s contrived: dinky dau (crazy), numbah ten (the worst), Charlie (the Viet Cong), grease (kill). The antiwar movement built a massive vocabulary of rhetorical excess about "fascist Amerika." Officers lied in writing up citations for their men and themselves. The Viet...
...celebrities. Schickel offers a white-hot jeremiad. In idolizing and loathing the celebrities we conspire to create, we bury real humanity. Woe unto the celebrities whom we are so good at killing, he warns, and woe unto us. Is there an answer to this sorry circle of fame and deceit? Schickel's conclusion: "Resistance," holding out against the "new tyranny of the image. We cannot redeem the world. But we can, we unhappy few, redeem ourselves. If we cannot say no in thunder we can at least whisper subversion among ourselves." Such is fame...
...Carthage. There is enough internal evidence (allusions and outbursts of Yiddish) to conclude that Pyatnitski's gene pool is thoroughly integrated. Rabid anti-Semitism is his way of denying the past and advancing his career as scientist and gentleman. There is also ample indication of a thin line between deceit and self-delusion...