Word: facelessness
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...heart of the book is the slow unraveling of the faceless patient's life, educed by morphine and haunted by scenes from Cairo nights when it was necessary "to proceed into the plot of the evening, while the human constellations whirled and skidded around you." That is very much how Ondaatje proceeds. One by one he introduces his characters, and slowly he unlocks their secrets, leading us through their lives as through the darkened corridors of a huge and secret house. Loves flicker, footsteps echo, lines of poetry recur. All four feel their way through darkness, by hand and memory...
Consider, for example, a presidential race in which the leading candidate tap-dances and croons torch songs, carries on a tabloid affair with a beauty- pageant entrant and has a running mate who is a national joke when he's not a faceless nonentity. This party's winning agenda consists of one word: love. Americans are urged to vote their belief in romance, and overwhelmingly they fall...
...really don't want to fire this gun and sure as hell don't want to disappoint the gang. Absolute ground zero in the mind of a gang banger. "I'm thinking it through, and finally it comes to decision time." Jimmy wheels the Honda toward a group of faceless teenagers hanging on a corner in rival turf and blasts seven rounds into the crowd, wounding three...
...Bennett and cultural critic Allan Bloom '56, chargins that they "symbolize for us the nostalgic return to what I think of as the 'antebellum aesthetic position,' when men were men, and men were white, when scholar-critics were white men, and when women and persons of color were voiceless, faceless servants,...filling brandy snifters in the boardrooms of old boy's clubs...
...play centers even more closely than the film around Salieri himself and his frustration with God's refusal of his bargain in favor of an immoral brat. Salieri's God is an angry deity, a scornful, faceless presence in the action of the play who mocks his servant with Mozart's high-pitched giggle...