Word: facelessness
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...keep his slot-car racetracks, visitors are reminded of what all the shoutin' is about. Some 150 of Elvis' gold and platinum records, including Hound Dog and Heartbreak Hotel, range down a long corridor. His film and stage costumes, from tailored black leather to elaborate Las Vegas numbers, adorn faceless mannequins. Some women with an eye for fashion think the white jumpsuits have been taken in beyond the dimensions necessary to fit the porky Elvis in his final years. Guides stoutly deny...
...current dragnet for white-collar criminals culminates a roaring, greedy decade that created not only legitimate prosperity but also boundless motivation for stealing. Fraud was never so tempting or remorseless, thanks to the proliferation of electronic money and fast, faceless financial transactions. In the past the primary safeguard against such theft had been trust, but in the go-go '80s that ethical obstacle blew away like an old cobweb. Now, finally, the epidemic of cheating may be cresting, since greed is going out of style in some quarters, and the spectacle of once upright citizens slouching off to jail...
...seamy and often sadistic sex life that Huffington chronicles in her book. From the age of 15, when Picasso discovered women in the brothels of Barcelona, to the antics of a 77-year old man, fighting back death with a continual succession of faceless women, Picasso had an infinite capacity to take and an inability to love, according to the book...
...appointed last fall to what looked like a caretaker's post, to pad out what was already the longest resume in Washington (positions in seven different agencies -- "one ahead of Elliot Richardson," he jokes). But acting like a caretaker is not in the nature of Carlucci, a far from faceless bureaucrat who boasts that in all his jobs "I don't think anybody has accused me of not having my say." Notably small in stature (around 5 ft. 5 in.), he compensates with aggressiveness and a reputation for wearing down opponents, on the tennis court or in the corridors...
Admittedly, this doesn't happen often, and many companies already voluntarily provide such notices. But the plant closing provision would ensure that faceless corporations don't leave families without a chance to salvage their future...