Word: facelessness
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This method of time compression is effective in that it provides apersonal connection to history. The events of the past 200 years are not described as affecting faceless numbers of peasants and aristocrats but as affecting individuals with names and, occasionally, faces. At the same time, however, the book does not lose sight of the larger issues, allowing the import of the book to be more general than the isolated story of one family's experiences...
...does not require much reflection to reveal that almost every image in the book's 600 pages--a dry well, a haunted house, a faceless man, a dead-end street--stands in some way for a hollowed-out Japan whose motto might be, "I don't think, therefore I am." Again and again, characters say, "I was like a walking corpse" or "I was now a vacant house" or "I felt as if I had turned into a bowl of cold porridge." Murakami's storytelling ease and the pellucid, uncluttered backdrop he lays down allow moments to flare up memorably...
...started out ghouling at Horror-wood with a black robe and a black faceless mask," she said...
...electro doubters. Says James Lavelle, head of England's influential Mo'Wax Records: "[The Prodigy] is one of those bands that do everything right: the right records, the right videos, it looks right, it does the show right." Says band member Flint: "We're not trying to be faceless and thinking that makes us interesting. We're up-front. We're saying, 'Look, if you're going to come out and see us, we're going to rock...
Harvard baseball under Walsh has always been based on a simple formula of solid defense, an aggressive running game and timely hitting. Harvard's offense this season was largely faceless, as each of the starting nine had several clutch performances throughout the course of the season...