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Chatterbox, who during his one-day immersion in the science of nonverbal communication never came across the name Birdwhistell, asked Reed for more information about Birdwhistell's work.
If Birdwhistell, in his travels, had been looking not for smiles but for smirks , Chatterbox strongly suspects he would have found lots of them on the smile-barren East Coast, especially in the vicinity of its prep schools and Ivy League universities . Here's a thought experiment: Summon up a mental image of Ali McGraw, the smirkiest performer in the history of the movies.
Chatterbox was unable to get his hands quickly on a copy of Birdwhistell's magnum opus, Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body Motion Communication , but he had no difficulty believing Birdwhistell's thesis, as summarized by Reed.
But if the Birdwhistell theory explains (even in part) George W.'s smirk, it must perforce also explain (in part) the milder version worn by George Bush Sr.
Ray Birdwhistell was an anthropologist, late of the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, who pioneered what he called "kinesics," the study of non-verbal communication.