Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because Thompson literally tries every trick except shoving his twang bar up the listener's nose. Yet this album also has a sense of urgency and creativity that is missing from most pop music. Though Thompson may initially seem malicious (towards both his old flames and the the contemporary ear which Michael Jackson has so thoroughly dulled), this is an album you could listen to a hundred times. But the album before Thompson tosses you in one of his songs...
...pick up revealing microexpressions as brief as one twenty-fourth of a second. "Liars," he says, "usually do not monitor, control and disguise all of their behavior." Ekman's lessons come with one 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...
Indeed, the staff--which number in the hundreds--often act like they own the place. Many exchange gossip with the Queen herself, though they wait until she's out of sight before boxing an unruly Royal baby on the ear (the young rascal Prince Andrew once got a black eye from an exasperated footman, but the Queen said nothing). Competition for prestigious jobs, like serving at state banquets, can be fierce, and the slightest brashness inevitably leads to a servant's being "sacked...
...wonder that Menelaus doesn't look too worried about recapturing his wandering wife when the Greeks sit down to plot strategies--he knows that he has only to wait for the next scene change to take her in his arms and whisper sweet Grecian nothings into her ear...
...labeled Mary Mary Quite Contrary, and she still seems to delight in offering a chair for her subject, merely to yank it away at the appropriate moment. In her lecture "Living with Beautiful Things," she discusses collections of great art, then decides, "By contrast to the ear, the eye is a jealous, concupiscent organ, and some idea of ownership or exclusion enters into our relation with visual beauty." From there it is a quick step to the conclusion, "Quite poisonous people, on the whole, are attracted by the visual arts and can become very knowledgeable about them. This is much...