Word: shrugged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Back in the early '60s, though, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Leah Spielberg could summon just enough energy to ride the roller coaster called Young Steven. "He was my first, so I didn't know that everybody didn't have kids like him," she recalls with a happy shrug. "I just hung on for dear life. He was always the center of attention, ruling his three younger sisters. And me too, actually. Our living room was strewn with cables and floodlights -- that's where Steven did his filming. We never said no. We never had a chance...
...unfortunate incidents" that took place during the 1983 exodus. Even so, many aliens complained last week of harassment by Nigerian authorities, who sometimes illegally confiscated money and possessions. Some refugees had been forced to leave their jobs without collecting wages they were owed. But the Nigerian government appeared to shrug off the chaos that the expulsion brought to so many lives. Said one immigration official: "Countries like Great Britain or France expel illegal aliens on a daily basis. Why all this fuss about Nigeria...
...wanted to get away for another suicide try. By slowing down the film, Ekman found that Mary's face had sagged into despair, a telltale "microexpression" that lasted only one twenty- fourth of a second. Later he found other quick movements of deceit: part of a hand shrug, the brief lift of a shoulder...
...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...
...much hope. "If you had told / me ten years ago that the war would go on for a decade, I wouldn't have believed it," says a Christian publisher in East Beirut. "Tell me now that it will continue for another ten years, and I will merely shrug. We're numb...