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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Using a sophisticated measuring system  Hava coma to the conclusion out All smiles an not the mine. The Anatomy of a smile by Daniel Goleman new York times he false smile Hal ubiquitous social lubricant has been unmasked by new research Hal has identified the different specific muscle patterns in smiles that rolled Irue Delight and those Hal mask disc Rasure. All smiles Are not the  Sard Paul Ehman a psychologist who duels the human interaction Laboratory at the University of California medical school in san Francisco. A Pottle smile or a forced one produce a different muscle pattern than does a spontaneous  the research May be of particular importance to those like physicians or psychotherapists who sometimes need to rely on Subtle cues to know when a person is trying to hide physical pain or emotional anguish behind the mask of a smile. It holds interest Lor anyone who wants to Tell in a smile May be lying. Ekman and Wallace Friesen and Maureau o Sullivan will publish inc results of their research on smiles later this Winter in the journal of personality end social psychology. With Froisen Ekman has developed a technique Lor analysing the patterns of the More than 100 Muscles of the face As a person changes expression with their method they have been Able to determine precisely which of those Muscles is at pay when the face takes on a Given emotional expression in the study on lying real smiles differed from Whoso Hal hid unhappy feelings on two counts. In spontaneous smiles i a Cheeks move up and the Muscles around the eyes tighten making Crow s eel. And in the real smile is Large enough the skin around the Eyebrow droops Down a bit toward the Eye. In the false smiles however the face reveals Travos of unhappy Leelin pjs behind the smile Lor instance a slight furrowing of the muscle Between the eyebrows that can be seen apart irom the supposed expression o1 pleasure. The eyes will not develop return of the Fountain pen  United press International in an age of word processors Micro chips Handsp Cert of tight telecommunications Al s somehow reassuring thai Todd Mclnnis Fountain pen repair business is thriving in Spokane Wash i m not sure Why but people have started to buy them  said Mclnnis 26, As he sorted through tiny drawers Lull of nibs by adders and sundry Guys of ancient pens Cross pens of Rhode Island us started making a Fountain pen that says something Mclnnis runs the Parl Lime business Hazelwood pen repair out of a spare room m his Home. There s a difference Between a ballpoint pen and a Erma Bumbeck Fountain pen and people Are getting Back to that he said. Walk into any office Supply store and you notice the Bounlam pens. Lying in sati tined boxes the gleaming writing instruments Are priced As High As $3,500. But the persistent buyer can Stilt track Down a Blue Collar equivalent for As Little As �3.50 or oven a plastic ribbed throwaway at less than $2. But Mclnnis says it is the Fountain pens Between ins of Iremus at about $33 be $60 thai Are gaining in popularity. And Dusty Fountain pens Are being fished out of attic shoe boxes and old desk drawers to be put Back into service. They re inherited from parents or they be been in the family forever Mclnnis said. Crow s feet unless to smile is especially Broad. And Eien then the Tell late Droop of skin around the Eyebrow which is difficult to eign wih usually not emerge. While the Milf Orenco were detected using a sophisticated measuring system Ekman said they were obvious enough to be used As social signals if people know what to spot. In the research Ekman and his colleagues had nursing students watch either a pleasant nature film or a disturbing film about Burns and amputations. Those students who watched the disturbing film were Lold to try to convince the interviewer they had watched the pleasant film. About a Quarter of those who saw the disturbing film were unable to produce any smiles. But those who were most convincing were later rated Best Al working with patients the new research refines previous work by distinguishing varieties of smiles. Ekman has described 17 different kinds of smiles Many of which Are signals Hal regulate the flow of conversation. One Man Ortro Seni a pen to Mclnnis Lor repair wrote i look the bar exam Wilh this pen in 1940.1 went All the Way through jaw school Wilh  even though Mclnnis does t advertise the resurrected pens Lind their Way to him Lor repair. His business is based on referrals from pen manufacturers and on word of Mouth the pens arc mostly irom Tho 1930s through thu 1950s. Their barrels Are often made of Marble like materials and ornamented with Gold Silver and Mother o Peart. These gleaming Art Deco delights Are to writing what a Dusenb in is to of ving Beauty sometimes comes Blore unction people like to use Fountain pens for signing checks and wring  Mclnnis said. You re not Fust laying Down a line the script varies with the Way you handle he  meet the winners of this years newsletter Barl of. As you May or May not know this is the annual award Given by this column Lor the Besl newsletter of the season in keeping with the rules All Musl tie once a year epistles sent to hundreds of people barely known by the sender Are not personalized in any Way and have absolutely nothing to do Wilh Christmas. Pictures Are acceptable Only if icy Are out of focus snapshots or rip oils of snoopy crts aplers the judging this year was Tough from a wonderful three Page chronicle sent to a woman by Hor eighth Grade homeroom teacher whom she had Lor three months Back in 1943 to a Story of aunt Rachel who died and that was us the beginning of her problems " messages heralding the Christmas season covered every Fiscel of life i was enlightened to read such Page 16 the stars and stripes nuggets As How pud tried to get the escrow to close on both houses Susan Gol pulled Over in the Middle of a Lake Lor not wearing her flotation device Al and Ginger enjoyed their vacation to the soybean expo in Cincinnati. Danielle continued orthodontia realm Only and Claire had a Hysterectomy a week alter the wine and cheese tasting auction at the Church. There was also a paragraph devoted to an estranged son who has t called since he separated irom his second Wile and an a depth discussion of a circumcision that the kid will my his parents 01 when he can read. But enough leasing third place goes to a family of exterminators. Their newsletter uses every reference to Mac Csc and bugs known to Man for several pages to Aro created to the hours Flea and As we Mellow. Seems we Termini to like each fellow. The Christmas King mantis to say larvae your saturday december 19, 1987 neighbor every  Etc. Etc. Second place is a newsletter Wal Len by a cat from new Jersey. I found in extraordinary that a cat would Tell me his parents " Friend from Oxfordshire England visited them and they spoke English so strangely he could hardly understand  he signed the newsletter Wilh a cat print. It was in Green. First place went to a newsletter that if packaged and labelled sedative would be illegal to sell Over the counter without a prescription. Many letters Are the brag olympics but this writer has seven children and she devoted 25 lines to each of them including their Zodiac sign no detail was too unimportant including her firstborn a Capricorn who had had four proposals of Mamago from four men in our years but she is looking for one with few Loujis " Send in your entries Lor next year people and remember our Motlo if you want to know How Good your life re ally is. Read your own can slams newsletter  
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