Word: facelessness
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...doing, the winners, the people who know how to beat the system. Easy but wrong. People who lie and cheat on their taxes are neither smart nor winners; they are simply cheats and liars. In the end, the money that they steal is not being stolen from a faceless government; it is being stolen from their honest neighbors who as a result must pay not only their own taxes but the taxes that the cheaters did not pay. "It's no game," says Roderick Chu, New York State's commissioner of taxation and finance. "As more people evade...
...cold, oppressive ziggurat of an art deco-style New York building. The film noir dramatics of Longo's work are tuned down, and a subtler pathos comes through, the surprise being that Longo was able to extract it from such obvious cliches as the Urban Clown and the Faceless Skyscraper...
...that his famous guests, performers by instinct, have a tendency to be psychic strippers. With the merest prodding they will shred the last thread of privacy and reveal intimate aspects of their lives. Cottle calls it the "strangers on a train" phenomenon. Yet his guests expose themselves to a faceless audience of millions, turning viewers into video voyeurs...
...Circulation Department," the ad says, referring to an alluring bare-shouldered woman's photograph set apart from the ad's copy. According to Nancy's replacement at the other end of toll-free line, Nancy "hasn't worked here for some time. And also according to the faceless female voice, Nancy left no forwarding address, even for the purpose of a discussion about football magazines and the Super Bowl...
...years since its creation, the prestigious and often controversial Nobel Peace Prize has been bestowed on personalities as famous and colorful as Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. The award has also been given to faceless organizations. In 1981, the five-person Norwegian Nobel Committee passed over Polish Trade Union Leader Lech Walesa to bestow its gold medallion and $180,000 in cash on the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...