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Hand News from: London, UK
Fidgety, ink-stained and with nails bitten to the quick, Gordon Brown's hands are fast becoming a visible symbol of the pressures he is under. "Since he became prime minister, Gordon Brown looks cared for above the eyebrows - he has had a decent haircut". That's the pithy verdict of Veronique Henderson, co-author of Style Matters for Men. |
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"But nobody has told him about his hands. His stained fingers say: here is a man that does not look after himself, and who does not care about his image. And he is chewing on his nails - a sign of a nervous and worried disposition." It's not only stylists who see significance in hands. Experts from fields as diverse as palmistry and biology say it's the hands - not the eyes - that provide the most revealing insights into a person's character. As far as occupations go, common sense tells us that a writer or an office worker is likely to have soft hands, while the expression "horny-handed son of toil" aptly reflects the damage done by manual labour. To the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, such a theory was elementary. "By a persons' fingernails... by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb... by each of these things an individual's calling is revealed." It was a lesson learned well by the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia during the 1970s. In a bid to root out individual thinkers, Pol Pot's soldiers would routinely examine people's hands. Those with soft palms were deemed "intellectuals" and despatched to the Killing Fields. |
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OCTOBER 7, 2009 UPDATE:
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Related sources: The psychology behind nail biting The Hand of Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton: 'polarizing hands'? Benazir Bhutto - PalmPrint of Destiny UK 'Celebrity Handprints' book USA Celebrities lending a Hand for charity Hands, not eyes, are window into soul |
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