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...Soviet regime, with its Stalinist housing bunkers and oppressive military bearing, the city became a grimmer place, but one that was anchored, orderly, predictable, even if, to many outsiders, drab and downcast. By 1976, the British journalist Geoffrey Bocca could describe the scene as a "crushing concatenation of faceless, shabby, shoving, rude and, above all, indifferent, uninterested people...
...addition to those heroic performances, were the performances of a bevy of faceless freshmen and sophomores who had the task of picking up the team's slack shoved at them at various points in the year...
...their ramifications for female sexuality. A Playboy cartoon best summarizes the idea. It depicts a man in a museum looking at what appears to be a modern painting. Abstract colorful planes speckle the canvas, but the man's figurative interpretation becomes visible: he reconstructs the forms to create a faceless female figure. He smiles smugly because of what he believes to be his private image, although it is in fact an image provoked by social standards...
...early April, Cobain decided to add a powerful twist to the rock and roll tragedy. His faceless corpse was found in his Seattle home--along with a clenched fist, a shotgun and a suicide note. Cobain even left his driver's license next to his body, apparently to quell any confusion about murdered and murderer. In this case, Cobain was both...
Against impossible odds, and goaded by the desire to avenge his dead or absent father, a nobody toils heroically to become a star. He learns both to be himself and to merge with his team. His opponents are either Nazi-oid stepfather figures or faceless goons (the Icelandic hockey players in D2 are outfitted like S&M Darth Vaders). If the movie is a sequel and stars one of Martin Sheen's sons (Charlie Sheen in the easy-to-take Major League II, Emilio Estevez in the noisome D2), the hero will go soft until he rediscovers the heart...