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From facecrime to skincrime in a mere quarter-century!
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Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime …
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There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime
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There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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It's facecrime mixed with a polygraph lacking control questions.
Schneier on Security 2008
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There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime ... "
Latest Articles 2009
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There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime ... "
kewpid commented on the word facecrime
Jocelyn Wildenstein
June 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word facecrime
Truly. I can't look at that woman.
June 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word facecrime
While I'm waiting for kewpid's link to load, can we have some speculation as to who creates sites like www.awfulplasticsurgery.com?
June 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word facecrime
I didn't go to that site. One look, years ago, was more than enough for me.
June 19, 2008
whichbe commented on the word facecrime
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called."
October 14, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word facecrime
whichbe, can you post a source/location for that? (I'm guessing it's 1984.)
October 14, 2008
whichbe commented on the word facecrime
Okay. Well, it was George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, on page 79.
October 15, 2008
whichbe commented on the word facecrime
© whichbe (thanks, WordiePRO!)
October 15, 2008