Word: facelessness
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Most readers have probably never heard of González Leiva. Indeed, the dissidents who languish in Castro’s jails typically remain nameless and faceless to the American public, despite being 90 miles from our shores. For every Armando Valladares—the Cuban poet who was held for 22 harrowing years before an international campaign helped gained his release in 1982—there are thousands of other brave souls whose pleas were never answered. Human-rights groups estimate that there are currently more than 300 “prisoners of conscience” in Cuba...
...exactly the same must-have purse or belt? Or the platinum-haired, deeply tanned kogyaru look that painted Tokyo teens like a badly conceived Hawaiian Tropic advertisement? But Japan today boasts a diversity of expression unmatched anywhere in Asia. Years of recession have galvanized a generation of faceless students, salarymen and office ladies to shed the uniforms they associate with the failure of the bubble years and probe unexplored fashion territory. "We've reached a point in Japanese society where people don't necessarily look up high for their fashion inspiration," says Takizawa. "In fact, even many older people have...
...following year when his first shot at the premiership ended after only seven months, when his coalition unraveled following a judicial probe into his business dealings. Then Berlusconi made his stunning comeback - and, in the process, gave a thorough makeover to an Italian political system once run by faceless leaders and cautious backroom pols...
...call Jim and say, 'Hey, I want to get this in our paper too,'" says Wayne Frazer, general manager of the Spencer County Journal Democrat in Rockport, Ind. "People feel like they're getting their information from a friend, as opposed to getting it from a faceless entity." When a reader recently wrote to lament her husband's hearing loss, Miller's reply began, "WHAT...
...chat is faceless: at Ryan's urging, members sometimes meet locally for wine-and-cheesers. "You get curious about who these folks are," says ChicWIT mingler Amy Braun, a manager for a Barrington, Ill., computer-consulting firm. At a recent get-together at the Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg, 100 women (and a few men) greeted Ryan with thunderous applause...