Word: facelessness
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...fake pig's head. Members of Berlin's Club Dada, who specialized in "propagandada," are well represented. George Grosz, who served in the German army in the early days of the war, satirizes the false patriotism and misplaced optimism of postwar Germany in his Republican Automatons. Here two faceless capitalists - one with a flag, the other wearing a war medal - strut arrogantly, although their hands and legs are cylindrical stumps. Raoul Hausmann's The Spirit of Our Time is just as cynical about the German bourgeoisie. He has taken a mannequin's head and added to it a traveler...
While Evelyn may be too one-dimensional, this is more than can be said of the children characters. The way in which screenwriter and director Jane Anderson constantly positions the faceless (and mostly nameless) flock around and generally below Evelyn succeeds at reinforcing their adoration of her, but fails to give any sense of a sorely lacking intimacy between them. And though she squeezes in a few incongruous moments of one-on-one, mother-child interaction, they cannot be appreciated when the children themselves are awkwardly underdeveloped. Terry, or “Tuff” as they call...
...Sovereign has installed a larger-than-life television screen that broadcasts young people telling me about new no-fee checking accounts while also making me think I’m about to get jumped by a drifter. Kudos to you, Sovereign Bank. Nothing makes me relate more to a faceless regional corporate entity than underpaid actors hawking low-interest credit lines by scaring the living shit out of me in the middle of the night...
...that most of this audience disliked me. The most common charge against me was desertion. Good bloggers kept blogging all day long, I was bluntly informed by people whose cryptic screen names didn?t reveal whether they were male or female, old or young, from America or Jupiter. The faceless humanoids were also mad at me for using the meaningless phrase ?I could care less? when I should have written ?I couldn?t care less.? Finally, there was the problem of my sentences. They were too long for a blog. My paragraphs, too. What?s more, the ideas they expressed...
...devour all they can before moving on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people whose jobs they destroy," said Mntefering, who is chairman of Chancellor Gerhard Schrder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and who promised to fight against what he called this "anonymous, faceless" form of capitalism...