Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.

I've grown accustomed to the trace / Of something in the air, / Accustomed to her face.

Presidential campaign observer Teddy White on the second Kennedy-Nixon debate in which the candidates spoke from separate television studios: "It was as if, separated by comments from his adversary, Richard Nixon was more at ease and could speak directly to the nation that lay between them.