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...produce an appropriate symbol for a TIME project, Holmes tries to mesh the emblem with the major illustrations of the layout. One of his favorites was a drawing of a finger poised over a red button, which was used in a 1982 cover story about fears of nuclear war. The impact was enhanced by a large facing photograph of a mushroom cloud. "It is often helpful to get a play between two things," says Holmes. "When TIME did a September 1983 cover on the downed Korean airliner, we used the Communist hammer-and-sickle symbol, with the plane...
...Coop orders extras, but a basketball player might end up with a gown meant for a jockey. The last-minute process is complicated by the little crow's foot emblem on Harvard's gowns, unlike any other University's prevents students from running down to M.I.T. and grabbing a gown...
...sure sign of deceit, Ekman says, is the presence of a "leakage emblem," the unconscious misuse of a common symbolic gesture, such as delivering an A- O.K. sign (thumb to forefinger, making a circle) from below the waist instead of above it, or producing a one-shoulder shrug. "A liar can show these leakage emblems again and again," Ekman writes, "and usually neither the liar nor the victim will notice them." Another finding: the use of gestures to illustrate speech, stabbing the air or making a circle in space, often falls off dramatically when a person is lying. (Lie spotters...
...puzzling name actually dates back to its founding year, 1946. "A bunch of Kroks were sitting around thinking of things to call the group, some of which are too obscene to tell," says Stephen R. Cass '87, the Krok's historian, "but, one of them looked up at the emblem of the Hasty Pudding--a crocodile--and decided that the name could be a variation on the emblem...
...Have you noticed," asked Ahmed Karabegovic, secretary-general of the organizing committee for the Sarajevo Games, "that all of the stores in the city still have the Olympic emblem in the windows and that many men wear this Olympic tie?" He thrust forward a cravat with a snowflake and five rings woven into its design. "It is a small thing, but it is significant. Before, our city was known as a town of ashes, the place where a war began. Now it is a town of the Olympics and of friendship; much has changed...