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Here is the hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong. For Pygmalion, a road company Liza Doolittle is counseled on Cockney sounds: "Liar is lawyer . . . Handkerchief is Enkecher . . . Brute is not broot: it is brer-ewt. The utterance is slovenly and nasal, colds in the head being almost chronic in the gutter...
...election-night television show last week, both of the main parties went on the attack. Kohl and Social Democratic Party Leader Willy Brandt, a former Chancellor, broke into a shouting match, with Kohl accusing Brandt of "primitive anti-Americanism" and Brandt calling Kohl "a liar." In the days that followed, the Bundestag crackled with heckling and mudslinging. "This," said Social Democratic Secretary-General Peter Glotz, "is the beginning of the central campaign...
...students rushed him and tried to hold him, that they prevented his departure by lying down in front and in back of his car, and that some students wanted to detain him until midnight. My dinner partner, not to my surprise, now appears to have been ignorant or a liar of a supporter of these disgraceful tactics of protest...
...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...
Advanced students of the art of liar catching watch facial muscles closely because some muscle movements are almost impossible for most people to fake. For example, individuals who feel real grief will move the inner corners of their eyebrows upward. Only about 10% of the time, Ekman's experiments show, can people deliberately move this portion of the eyebrows. Another instructive facial slip: the so-called squelched expression, the fleeting appearance of a hidden emotion, followed by a rapid adjustment back to the desired look...