Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Significantly, Dean Allison's report rails to note in any way Charles Engelhard's role in fostering racial injustice. Perhaps it is necessary to include a brief reminder to him and any others who believe the Engelhard issue is less than clear cut. Charles Engelhard parlayed an inheritance of twenty million dollars into a quarter of a billion fortune through his chairmanship of Rand Mines which controlled an estimated fifteen per cent of the South African gold mining industry during...
...least one newsman made news as well as reported it: visiting Washington Columnist Robert Novak. One evening while Novak and the Globe and Mail's Fraser were talking to a crowd near the posters, Fraser remarked that his colleague might be granted an interview with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing ply following day. The astonished listeners, immediately began to ply Novak Novak questions for the Vice Premier. At the crowd's insistence, Novak said Teng had try to return the following evening to tell them what Teng had said. He failed to do so, pleading another...
...Borghese perfume ("The Perfume of the Night") feature an obviously nude woman, her head and shoulders bathed in a rosy glow, the rest of her body outlined in deep shadow. Bergerac's favorite ad, which shows a bare-breasted Borghese woman in silhouette, also ran in the Revlon annual report...
...team of psychologists thinks it has the answer. Writing in the journal Science, Harold Sackeim of Columbia and Ruben Gur and Marcel Saucy of the University of Pennsylvania report that the left side of the face is not perceived well by a viewer. The team bases its conclusion on split-brain research, which shows that the right hemisphere of the brain has predominant control over the left side of the face and that the left hemisphere governs the right side. Other studies indicate that the right hemisphere of the brain is better than the left in recognizing faces and processing...
...studies, Sackeim's team found that negative emotions registered heavily on the left side, but positive emotions spread more evenly across the entire face. Says Sackeim: "We believe the two sides of the face are differently involved in experiencing happy and unhappy states." Other researchers have reported "small correlations" between emotional illness and a high degree of facial asymmetry. Sackeim is currently studying these results. "Why should people with greater facial asymmetry report more neurotic symptoms?" he asks. "We don't understand the connection...