Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...JORMA OLLILA Not since the sauna have the Finns produced anything as popular as the NOKIA mobile phone. That's mostly thanks to the charming, bookish CEO, who holds master's degrees in economics, engineering and politics. Ollila, 51, has transformed the 136-year-old firm from a faceless conglomerate to a tech wunderkind. He is now leading an industry-wide movement to create an open standard for Internet services delivered by wireless phones...
...Throughout the show, the entire ensemble wears black while Tommy is in white. In the first act, this successfully highlights Tommy as an oppressed figure swallowed up by the black-clothed masses while, in the second act, it reveals him as a unique figure followed and emulated by a faceless, mindless and identity-less mob. Additionally, some characters change the color of their costumes for certain scenes, exposing a change in their character or personality that may otherwise have gone unnoticed...
More recently, however, notions of faceless bedroom producers, vinyl culture and spinning records as performance have become commonplace, thanks to mass marketing and overall cool factor. The downer this time is that, unlike thrilling chart-toppers like “Firestarter” and “Setting Sun,” the music in the limelight is barely deserving of notice. Most popular are formulaic, cheap-rush trance that any talentless hack with a computer can cough out, and its dry counterpart “progressive” house, the style championed by purists like John Digweed...
...Avalanches entered at a perfect moment. Faceless producers have been refining and reinventing the forlorn soul of Detroit techno and Chicago house for more than a decade. While so much dance music continues to fashion itself around their paradigm, perhaps it’s time for another revolution. The Avalanches aren’t bringing the soul back to electronic music; they are giving...
...were when I got that letter. There weren’t even words. And this year, my dad called and he wrote letters and provided documentation about the hardship that loans were causing. The financial aid committee didn’t change anything at all. I feel like a faceless number to them, like personal circumstances aren’t considered...