Word: facelessness
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THEY were much more than a faceless squad at the top of the standings. These were individuals. There was Bucky Dent at short, with his trademark black shadow under his eyes. Everybody loved Bucky. The girls dropped dead at the mention of his name and wore their "I Love Bucky" T-shirts all around town. I loved him for his rare but timely shot over the Green Monster in Fenway which destroyed Boston's pennant dreams...
...Angeles since the turn of the century, but they have been turned into small armies by drugs and money and the violence that goes with them. Combat has changed from bare knuckles and knives to random shots at an enemy who is tracked from a distance, is usually faceless and is therefore all the easier to gun down without remorse. Not all gang members deal drugs, just as not all drug dealers belong to gangs, but the flow of drug money has infiltrated every crevice, creating a hyperinflation of shooting...
Television is one of those peculiar institutions (professional sports is another) where the underlings often wield more clout than their bosses. The faces onscreen, after all, are what count for the audience, not the faceless executives who ostensibly hire and fire them. David Burke, president of CBS News, found that out the hard way, when he suspended 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney last month for allegedly making offensive remarks about blacks and homosexuals. The uproar over the suspension was instant and unrelenting. Thousands of complaints from viewers poured in to CBS. Press critics chided the network for trampling on Rooney...
With these facts and numbers in mind, then, the Brandeis Holocaust display and penny drive misses the mark. Why are Jewish lives more important than the lives of other Holocaust victims? Why should Jews alone be remembered by the Brandeis memorial while the other nameless, faceless victims are relegated to the numerical dustbin of history...
...game depends on an attitude, an approach, He is happy to be the leader of a nameless, faceless team. A team with no stars, but many hungry players...