Word: liar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book Telling Lies (W.W. Norton; $17.95), Ekman, 51, a professor of psychology at the University of California at San Francisco, says that catching liars is an art that anyone can learn: most duplicitous people unwittingly release a barrage of giveaway information during their deceptions. The key to judging sincerity is in paying close attention to the signals issuing from a talker's face, body and voice. In one of Ekman's experiments, all 50 members of a group of volunteers learned to pick up revealing microexpressions as brief as one twenty-fourth of a second. "Liars," he says, "usually...
...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...
...company never specifically offered Hidalgo a reward for helping get it a good overrun settlement. But Veliotis contends there was an unspoken understanding that General Dynamics would take care of the Secretary in the future. Responds Hidalgo: "If anyone says that, I would call him a confounded and blasphemous liar...
Mickey (Keith Carradine) is said to be a pathological liar. But after he ankles the mental hospital quite uncured of this condition, evidence accumulates that he really was a jet-fighter pilot. And a CIA spy in the Soviet Union. And a poetry teacher at Yale. The problem is not with him but with a world that refuses to accommodate improbable realities...
Across the state, Helms, the champion of the New Right, blasts at Hunt, calling the two-term governor a "racist," a "felon," and a "consummate liar." Hunt, whose billing as a moderate New South politician gave him an early but fleeting lead, fires back, attacking Helms as the "High Priest" of a nationwide "network of right-wing extremists...