Word: twitch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taping process tends to sharpen a professor's delivery. Pauses and diversions that seem natural in a live setting glare painfully from a TV tube. So do a professor's platform idiosyncrasies-a nervous cough or twitch of the head. After watching themselves on tape, professors "learn what even their best friends won't tell them," notes Donley Feddersen, director of telecommunications at Indiana. They usually then work to improve their delivery. For some, there is little hope. "If you have a really bad professor, he is going to be worse on television," says the University...
When they opened for business last spring, the brash young founders of Manhattan's new advertising agency, Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., promised to "build the most profitable agency in history." With a flair that made even Madison Avenue eyebrows twitch, they started out by getting just about the most publicity in history...
...heart beat, pulse and blood pressure. His chest moves as if it were breathing, his eyes dilate, his muscles twitch, his mouth opens and closes. Sim (for simulator) One is a fiber-glass-and-steel robot, designed to play the part of a patient for anesthesiologists in training at Los Angeles County General Hospital...
...gesture to the new Kennedy Administration, negotiations resumed, and the deal had even been tentatively struck when the Berlin Wall blocked it. The Cuban missile crisis and other tensions kept the talks down until last summer, when President Johnson decided to try again. Last week, despite an involuntary twitch resulting from the FBI's new spy case (see THE NATION), the agreement was signed in Washington by Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Soviet Civil Aviation Minister Evgeny Loginov...
...womb," comes the answer from up the crawlway. But it's not that at all: it's damp and cold down here, with a million tons of rock balanced over your head. In the long squeeze coming through the Gunbarrel, even an experienced caver sometimes feels a twitch of claustrophobia. Novices may have to be dragged up with a rope...