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Onscreen, John Wayne was a blunt talker and straight shooter. "Duke," who died in 1979, was also good at firing off angry letters to friends, including Ronald Reagan. In November 1977 Wayne blistered Reagan for a fund-raising letter that the Duke considered full of false statements about the Panama Canal treaties. "I'll show you point by God damn point where you are misinforming people," wrote Wayne, who supported the agreement to cede U.S. control of the canal to Panama. If Reagan persisted in making "erroneous remarks," Wayne continued, "someone will publicize your letter to prove that...
...mere solitude would never hold the eclectic man from Queens. His need to accomplish and excel runs too deep. For 15 years he has scorned vacations. Instead, hard work is more renewing. Cuomo dominates those around him. An excessive talker, he routinely holds listeners captive as he slips into changing courtroom roles, playing innocent here, bullying there, as a technique for gathering information and testing the motives of others. It is a bruising process that tends to make flunkies out of the less sturdy around him. One top aide has packed on 50 lbs. from nervous overeating. But the extra...
...Most of the Philadelphia-area investors were allegedly lured into the scheme by Blay-Miezah's partner Ellis, whom Castille describes as "a good talker, a hustler." They were assured of a return of as much as 50 to 1 on their investments. Attorney Barry Ginsberg and a group of friends ended up dumping a total of $1.5 million into the trust, and according to investigators, an elderly widow invested $70,000, which amounted to her life savings. Most investors did, however, realize that they were getting into a rather risky venture. "Don't feel sorry for these people," says...
...this street-hustling nature of Capa was an invaluable part of Capa the photographer. A good photojournalist is one who is always at the right place at the right time. The bad photographer knows where and when but never seems to get the perfect shot. Capa, ever the smooth-talker, received assignments he shouldn't have and took pictures where he (supposedly) couldn't have...
...psychology at the University of California at San Francisco, says that catching liars is an art that anyone can learn: most duplicitous people unwittingly release a barrage of giveaway information during their deceptions. The key to judging sincerity is in paying close attention to the signals issuing from a talker's face, body and voice. In one of Ekman's experiments, all 50 members of a group of volunteers learned to pick up revealing microexpressions as brief as one twenty-fourth of a second. "Liars," he says, "usually do not monitor, control and disguise all of their behavior." Ekman...