Word: reactional
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Toward the start of his new film The Constant Gardener, Ralph Fiennes, as Justin Quayle, a British diplomat stationed in Kenya, is told that his young wife Tessa may have been killed while on a research trip with another man. As the camera holds on him, searching for a reaction, Fiennes doesn't conjure up a rage or a gasp. He doesn't gush a stream of tears or obscenities. He moves hardly at all. Yet alert viewers will see his pale face turn a shade ashen. They will watch his spirit sink as he struggles to retain propriety. Somehow...
...someone inside the office of then Prime Minister Iyad Allawi without being searched. (Allawi has told TIME he believes Iranian agents plotted to assassinate him.) And the handler also demanded information on U.S. troop concentrations in a particular area of Baghdad and details of U.S. weaponry, armor, routes and reaction times. After revealing his conversations to U.S. and Iraqi authorities, Abu Hassan disappeared; earlier this year, one of his Iraqi superiors was convicted of espionage...
...average legal expense per case fall at virtually the same rate, to $35,000. Dr. Darrell (Skip) Campbell, a transplant surgeon and the chief of staff, says the new openness has the added advantage of allowing doctors to explore what happened. "The natural reaction when something goes awry," he says, "is to sweep it under the rug. [But then] you don't find out what the problems...
...crossover--didn't much mind, giving the Ice Cube hit a $75 million gross and inspiring a sequel--two, if you count Beauty Shop. But it was hardly ambitious, so it was surprising that Showtime would ask screenwriter John Ridley (Three Kings) to adapt it for TV. "My first reaction was, 'Oh, that's what I want to do,'" Ridley says sarcastically. "Remaking somebody else's movie--that's what I want to be remembered...
Because subjects with a history of interracial dating saw almost no persistent fear reaction to the faces of other races, the study’s authors—Ebert, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Mahzarin R. Banaji, New York University (NYU) Professor of Psychology and Neural Science Elizabeth A. Phelps, and NYU graduate student Andreas Olsson—concluded that fear learning is influenced by one’s social group, and thus may be socially conditioned...