Word: tremors
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...always a fear attached when somebody lies, and that causes a physical reaction that can be read." Professional polygraphers say their tests are reliable in more than 90% of the cases if interpreted by a competent examiner. But University of Minnesota Professor David Lykken, author of A Tremor in the Blood, says the tests are accurate only two-thirds of the time and are far more likely to be unreliable for a subject who is telling the truth. "They have no more place in the courts or in business than a psychic or tarot cards," he says. Congress has ordered...
Charting the balance of power in the Administration requires sensitivity to the slightest tremor and the subtlest nuance. So when two chairs in the waiting room of Bill Clark's basement White House office were removed, Administration watchers seized upon this seemingly unimportant event as another sign of the National Security Adviser's growing influence. "The place was becoming the Grand Central Station of the West Wing," an aide explains. "Everybody was realizing that it's worth your time to drop by and see Uncle Bill." Now plants sit where chairs once did, politely discouraging people...
...throwing a rock through the window of then-president Woodrow Wilson. And describing the disease' which made O'Neill's hands shake for the last decade of his life--effectively cutting off his ability to write--Berlin contends that O'Neill actually "died" with the onset of the tremor--when he was not writing he was nothing. Berlin's details add up to illumine the sense of hopelessness that powers O'Neill's tragic vision, since, Berlin notes, "the tragic alone has that significant beauty which is truth...
...hunt for modern meaning in productions of Shakespeare, the parallels with Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and the impending struggle to succeed him are obvious. Says one Moscow viewer: "Not everything today is the way Lenin is saying it should be." Indeed, during a recent performance there was a brief tremor of applause in the balcony when Kalyagin suggested that the post of general secretary should be subject to greater party control...
...major earthquake rocks Cambridge, opening a 70-foot-deep chasm through the middle of Harvard Yard.. As a result, the University renames Wigglesworth A, B and C entries in honor of Charles Richter '45. Admissions officials say applications from tremor-shy southern Californians plummet...