Word: namelessness
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...every last player on Harvard’s roster loves playing hockey with Kenny Turano. About his only flaw is that he roots for the Yankees. (He’s the only New York fan on the entire team, save a member of the coaching staff who shall remain nameless as part of the local Yankee Fan Protection Program...
...superficial criteria without ever having to face any of the judged in person. On the “facemash” website, we were all masters of our own domains of rejection and approval, and we never had to deal with anything more socially challenging than a parade of nameless, awkward registration-day snapshots...
...because the word apartheid is never uttered in his novels, and the settings are not necessarily South African. In 1980, when Coetzee's masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians was published, I was in the U.S., living among people who took it as a surreal cowboy story set on some nameless frontier and wondered what all the fuss was about. For me, and for many white South Africans, it was an unbearably painful allegory about our daily lives and moral dilemmas, a book that engaged on a psychic level so deep and compelling that reading it left one dazed and hypnotized...
...plot of the movie centers on the character played by Uma Thurman, a nameless woman known only as The Bride, who awakes from a coma four years after she is nearly assassinated at her wedding party by an elite fighting force called the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or DiVAS). Once a part of this group, The Bride—whose DiVAS code name was Black Mamba—sets out now on a mission of revenge, tracking down all of her former compatriots, each of whom is also code-named after a venomous serpent. Her final target, as the title...
Most readers have probably never heard of González Leiva. Indeed, the dissidents who languish in Castro’s jails typically remain nameless and faceless to the American public, despite being 90 miles from our shores. For every Armando Valladares—the Cuban poet who was held for 22 harrowing years before an international campaign helped gained his release in 1982—there are thousands of other brave souls whose pleas were never answered. Human-rights groups estimate that there are currently more than 300 “prisoners of conscience” in Cuba...