Word: facelessness
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...hostage sweepstakes. Since Iraq's ill- fated invasion of Kuwait a year ago, the currency of the hostages has been sharply devalued. Such longtime sponsors of terrorist activities as Iran and Syria now regard the hostages as a bothersome obstacle to the renewal of ties with the West. The faceless abductors themselves are reaping diminishing returns from the hiding, feeding and clothing of captives. One of the initial impulses that guided Islamic Jihad's first seizures back in the early 1980s -- the freeing of 17 fundamentalists jailed in Kuwait -- is now a moot point; after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the remaining...
...PICTURE was becoming a little clearer. Rudenstine was no longer just a faceless administrator. He was a friendly man who read The New York Times and wore lightly starched shirts. He read the occasional magazine. On at least one occasion, his wife had purchased groceries of an undetermined variety...
Andrew D. Harless '83, who has put up several of his poems, says that for him, the board is a place to bounce ideas off of nameless, faceless critics before taking his work on to the people who really matter. The poems he has displayed on the board "have really been poems I didn't think were good enough to give to somebody whose opinion I trust," he says...
...stage hit Other People's Money, the movie Wall Street and a shelf of recent nonfiction, not to mention such Eisenhower-era cautionary tales as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Katz's prose is competent, his dialogue serviceable and his cast of characters large and mostly faceless (although its obsessives stand out: a shopworn survivor of the executive-suite wars; a by-hook-or-by-crook booker of talk-show interviewees; and a tough, moralistic accountant...
Every spring, some first-year students enter the housing lottery without a sophomore-year roommate. Until now, these unfortunates have had to throw themselves on the mercy of faceless housing bureaucrats, who match them up with unknown and potentially disastrous partners...