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...length Toad could see his own changes of mood in the handwriting. He could read haste when he had hurried. He thought that handwriting would make a fine lie-detector test, or a foolproof drunkometer. Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Scribble, Scribble, Eh, Mr. Toad? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...location in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., when the daughter is possessed by a raging demon-the Devil himself. To depict the permutations of this evil spirit, Director Friedkin and Writer Blatty go in for cheap shocks and crude novelty. There are gruesome details of an encephalogram being taken on the girl in search of some physical origin for her symptoms; there are also scenes showing her genitals being maimed with a crucifix, copious vomiting, a cacophony of obscenities and miscellaneous bestiality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beat the Devil | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...Flat encephalogram or absence of "brain waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanatology: Determination of Death | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...places. That nothing was done in the light of this threat I consider to be a gross moral, if not professional, lapse on the part of the psychiatrist. It is criminal that this boy could have seen a psychiatrist and not have had basic tests done, such as an encephalogram, which could have spotted the cause of his suffering and led to control of his antisocial behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Lindsley will discuss "Psychological Phenomena and the Electro-Encephalogram" in an exploration of the mechanism underlying perception, learning, motivation, and emotion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lindsley to Lecture | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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