Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then when Andropov came along, I practically lost my breakfast when I read some of that sappy stuff about him in the morning papers--how he liked Western pop music and so on. Now we're hearing about how Mikhail Gorbachev has good eye contact and a firm handshake and a good sense of humor and how his wife wears stylish shoes. Just because Gorbachev uses charm does not mean he is going to be swayed by it. And as for this facade about a modern, Western- style technocrat--it's just that, a facade...
...island's strategic location, continues to back Jayawardene's pro-Western government but is not holding out the prospect of U.S. military aid. India, home to almost 50 million Tamils of its own, insists that it does not favor the creation of a separate Eelam but turns a blind eye to at least 20 training camps in India run by the Tigers...
...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 be displaying a lifelong nervous habit. Diplomats, natural performers and pathological liars are often impossible...
...Vries relies on literary parody, verbal burlesque and a baleful eye for "life-styles." The result is a deftly improvised confusion in which the suburbs become the stage for fragments of Elizabethan comedy, bits of Wodehouse farce and a generalized send-up of The Great Gatsby. There is even a climactic courtroom scene in which Teeters must defend himself against charges of smut peddling. Unfortunately, he has arrived in Merrymount one beat behind the conservative backlash and cannot convince a jury that his cassettes are the visual equivalent...
...President's desire did not diminish even after a Soviet guard shot and killed a U.S. officer in East Germany. Said Reagan in a Washington Post interview following the shooting: "I want a meeting even more so, to sit down and look someone in the eye . . . to make sure nothing of this kind happens again...