Word: facelessness
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...confrontation isn't the police's fault. They are a faceless tool belonging to whomever is in control of the city. The march leaders only precipitated the conflict. They let the march's outcome be inevitable. Go down on road or go down the other, but prepare for the consequences. To have your head opened for no purpose would be damn maddening...
...people who seem most important these days are faceless and colorless, worth writing about for what they do, but not for their force of personality. They are bank presidents, CIA directors, informed sources, reputed gangland leaders, even Gerald Ford. The key subjects are plots and spies, interests and investments, economic trends. New York Magazine, in its annual Ten-Most-Powerful list, this year added a new list, for invisible power, the power...
...watch the drivers. So deep into his car that I can only see his over-sized helmet and spastically jerking hands, the driver comes down-shifting through the turn and accelerates down a short straight and out of our vision. Nestled in bladders of gasoline, his is a desperate, faceless struggle to control such a hell-bent machine as it screams toward pure speed. Peter Revson's helmet was painted into a big toothy smile, but he died setting a track record in South America. So far there have been no accidents this weekend. All at once I hear...
Reed's present group suffered from such a severe loss of identity that even when it was their turn to shine, they were unable to burst forth into the foreground. In this way, they lingered on as a talented, but faceless, back-up band...
...case for closer surveillance is much stronger. Says Kolkowicz: "Entrusting covert operations to a secretive agency lacking effective supervision amounts to leaving policy to faceless bureaucrats whose judgment is questionable." Although somewhat exaggerated, his warning reflects widespread concern that the CIA may be too independent...