Word: facelessness
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...first baseball memory that I can consciously remember was from the 1980 World Series. Tug McGraw, the Phillies closer, comes on in the ninth and strikes out some faceless Kansas City Royal to win the Series in Game Six, and the Vet goes crazy...
Inside Harvard University, there is a corporation within a corporation--nameless yet not faceless, a big spender yet exceedingly profitable...
...22nd novel about investment-banker-cum-detective John Putnam Thatcher written under the pseudonym Emma Lathen by Mary Jane Latsis, an economist, and Martha Henissart, an attorney. All the plots center on financial skulduggery, and almost invariably the villain is the least developed principal character, typically a faceless mid-level manager who shows unrecognized ingenuity in concocting a scam. The team's prose is always easy and mildly amusing. While offering less psychological insight than the average TV sitcom, it convincingly conveys the general corporate mindset and the nubby details of an industry, this time home appliances. The liveliest scenes...
...budget for so long. Los Angeles has only 1.3 officers per 1,000 citizens, compared with 5 per 1,000 in New York City. Williams, 49, the city's first black police chief, has won points with inner- city residents for many conciliatory gestures. In a town accustomed to faceless cops in prowl cars and helicopters, the new chief is promoting community policing, which encourages contact between officers and the neighborhoods they patrol. "Willie Williams is the best thing that's happened to this city," says Bernard Kinsey, the co-chairman of RLA. "He's been getting his officers...
When you look around Barcelno you first sense the pure giddiness of the city in its buildings. One facade of the Sagrada Familia church, the city's most famous landmark and the creation of iconoclastic architect Antonio Gaudf, shows a stylized crucifixion with a nude and faceless Modernista Jesus, while another side, constructed seemingly of marzipan, seems on the verge of melting...