Word: shifts
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...himself. In the important and captivating “The Lucifer Effect,” Zimbardo attempts to answer this question and explore its many disturbing implications. Any attentive psychology student can tell you what happened with the experiment: The situation got ugly very quickly. During the Thursday night-shift after the initial Sunday faux-arrests, the prison guards began forcing the male prisoners to engage in simulated sodomy. “Now you two, you’re male camels. Stand behind the female camels and hump them,” ordered one of the guards, in Zimbardo?...
...slides have degraded in the last three-quarters of a century, and enlarging the slides has exaggerated the somewhat splotchy coloring that makes the otherwise impressive miniaturist painting seem careless.RELICS AND ORNAMENTSIt is little surprise, then, that the photographs which sustain and reward lengthy viewings are those that shift the focus away from naturalistic subjects. “Shamanistic mirror worn at exorcism festival” (1923) shows a large, round, ornamented, and polished metal mirror. Surrounded by swatches of a colorful robe, the bright, silvery-blue hue of the mirror is radiant. Rather than merely reflect the viewer?...
...said he’s seen a lot of changes in the industry since he began wrestling in 1989. According to Austin, the most pronounced shift was the gradual abandonment of the conceit that wrestling is “real” in the sense of not having its matches predetermined...
...about the book, reported that Tenet acknowledges that he made his storied remark about the prewar intelligence on Iraq being a "slam dunk," but that other U.S. officials shared his comment with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward - many months after the fact - out of context in an effort to shift the blame for the war's costs and direction from the White House to the CIA. Tenet describes watching an episode of Meet the Press in 2006 in which Vice President Cheney cited the "slam dunk" comment as a critical reason behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq and recalls thinking...
...Though he's never been a vocal green, Abe seems to have seized on global warming as way for Japan to express its power in a soft way, moving the focus to the future rather than the country's controversial past. There is "a mind shift that it is politically wise to take the leadership on environmental issues," says Hye Sook Park, a professor of environmental geography at Japan's Mie University...