Word: flickerer
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...store and stumble out with a signature scrawled across a CD or on a poster or even on their skin. Some leave crying tears of joy. At a multiplex across the street, Fox is holding one of the first screenings of The Phantom Menace. You can see a flicker of hesitation on the faces of a few Phantom ticket holders. I thought I was in the red-hot center, the flicker seems to say. What's going on over there...
Where the technology could go from there is difficult to say, but Sejnowski anticipates big things. Ekman often used videotapes to gauge the emotional states of subjects, once detecting a brief flicker of sadness in the face of a patient who later turned out to be suicidal. A computer like Sejnowski's could have made the diagnosis in real time. Further down the road could be a host of other emotion-measuring computer systems, ranging from smart ATMs that can shut down if they spot a suspicious patron to television systems that can determine if a finger-wagging politician...
Every Thursday evening around 10 p.m., the participants of Mr. J's Midnight Croquet gather in the MAC Quad. While the windows of Kirkland, Lowell and Winthrop flicker from the televisions within, the croquet players set up their wickets...
...stand, Connie identified the "closest" one as Cousin, saying he was 5 ft. away. They made "eye contact," and he "broke eye contact first." Next, she says she saw "a gold glint or flicker" in his teeth as he said something to one of his companions. (Cousin does have gold caps on his teeth.) She and Gerardi continued walking toward Gerardi's truck. The killer Connie identified as Cousin stopped, bent down and "fiddled" with his boot. (Police were unable to find boots that fit Cousin in his home, and he says he doesn't own any.) Gerardi sent Connie...
Buprenorphine is an opiate too, but it creates only a passing flicker of a high, if that--and it is not addictive. Consequently, the FDA is expected to approve the drug by spring, which would allow physicians to dispense it from the privacy of their offices. For many, that will be not a moment too soon. During the 1990s, heroin addiction has spread to groups ill-served by existing treatment networks: professionals like Ted and middle-class, often suburban, teens. The majority of addicts are still poor, city-dwelling adults, but teens account for more than a fifth of those...