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...audience. It is stunningly photographed and the pace seldom slackens. At its brilliant best in the fight scenes, which are probably the most brutally believable ever screened, Champion is equally good at creating suspense. In a chase sequence, when Midge is being cornered in an empty arena by faceless racketeers, the camera movement in & out of the vast shadowy beehive of tunnels, arcades and aisles is expertly terrifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Studio Audience: "... A mass of negative flotsam. Open the door of any studio at any hour of the day or night and a faceless group will flock inside to participate in quiz programs, community sings, or to laugh and applaud as directed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Conspiracy | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...traditional European symbol of death is the skeleton with a scythe, toothy, faceless, but curiously fragile. Recently, a young, African art student at Uganda's Makerere College set out to make his own symbol. Gregory Maloba, 19, had some tribal lore in the back of his head, little knowledge of any other art tradition. Death, he thought, should be "not unkind but inscrutable." Out of a three-foot mahogany log, he carved a horned shape of power (see cut). Maloba's Death did no grinning, whispering, or shoulder-tapping; the Shape stood pityingly behind its victim, and crushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Shape of Death | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Association convention in San Francisco last week (see MEDICINE) saw a remarkable appeal to citizens. On a billboard near the Civic Auditorium was the portrait of a vaguely sinister man whose face was hidden by a tilted derby. A legend read: "Don't surrender your city to the faceless man. Vote no on recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: City I Love | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...Lapham people charged that Budde was only the front for politicians who want to enthrone their own man. Who is he? Hardly anyone knows. He is someone the city's supervisors would elect if Lapham is fired. He is the Faceless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: City I Love | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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