Word: facelessness
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...accorded him, nor the conditions under which it was given. Instead, he regarded it as a spontaneous outpouring of moral sentiment, dictated by the Zeitgeist. His forensic imagery revolved around the vision of butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, bankers and welfare mothers forming an ecstatic muster and marching like faceless Johnnies to a nonviolent holy war for justice, dignity and the dream. In this vision, which was the underpinning of his famous "A Preacher Leading His Flock" speech given exactly two months before his death. King saw himself as a "drum major for justice." walking the point alone...
...course, any member of the Politburo can be voted out of office by the Central Committee, but for that to happen would require a major upheaval. Nor can anyone predict with certainty who will emerge as the next party boss?or when. Perhaps it will be a now faceless regional bureaucrat or young technocrat whose name today is unfamiliar in the West. More likely, it will be someone who is not yet in his 60s but is already positioned in the upper reaches of the power structure. There are four Soviet politicians who fit this description particularly well. Three...
With the current downturn in the TV economy (TIME, Feb. 1), the networks are cutting expenses as if they were X-rated movies. Employee rolls have also been snipped a bit. But even the latest reductions-at CBS and ABC -were what one ABC spokesman called a "pruning" involving faceless people, like secretaries or technicians. The next likely cutback will affect the viewers directly: it could involve old family friends like Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk and the Beverly Hillbillies...
Most U.S. inmates are faceless, nameless men-mere crime statistics converted to prison numbers. But even behind the walls, some have overcome that anonymity, or retained their original notoriety. Among them...
...spirits of the damned floating by, and those spirits are just hideously deformed. And they come right at you, and they stare at you, and I for one didn't feel like staring back. The Ghost of Christmas Future is a pretty frightening figure in Dickens, a hooded, faceless creature who never speaks, but Bricusse adds a scene in which Scrooge falls into his newly dug grave, catching a glimpse of a skull under the hood of the ghost, and tumbles all the way down into Hell. Pretty strong stuff...