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Word: soundless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Waking at four to soundless dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Tears, but No Comfort | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...tongue and odd pauses, often reveal lying, Ekman says, but body language provides the richest lode of information because liars usually do not bother to conceal it. When he showed volunteers films of several nursing students, some of whom had been told to lie, those volunteers who saw only soundless, neck-down films of the students were able to identify the liars and truth tellers about 65% of the time. A control group that studied only the faces and heard the words of the nurses got 50% of the answers correct, no better than chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Fine Art of Catching Liars | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...hour. Cornelia's syrupy voice might, with training, resemble Teresa Brewer's. The band sounds terrific. That is, the four professional mu­ sicians (two guitarists, drummer and pianist) Stein hired to play in the shadows downstage sound terrific. Two of Cornelia's friends strum soundless guitars at center stage, faking the struts and grimaces of rock stars. Cornelia seems like a bashful cheerleader, smirky and proud and a little unsure. The last of the eight songs is Satisfaction, which Cornelia's friend Mick Jagger recorded with the Rolling Stones in 1965, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: A Deb Sings at Xenon | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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