Word: namelessness
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...considerable talents to best advantage. Figures in a Landscape, which he made before The Go-Between, intermittently reveals him at his worst. Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell appear as two prisoners who have escaped from an anonymous jail in an unspecified country. They are pursued by a nameless army of faceless foes. Wherever they run, a helicopter hovers over them like a wrathful god. It is all very pompous, the kind of vague allegory that is open to any number of interpretations and able to sustain none...
Playwright Richard Reichman has produced a history of sorts, a dramatization of the development of the drug culture. Yet Headplay is not about drugs; it uses them as a way of following the mind-expansion, spirit-liberation movement through the last seven years. The characters are nameless-you, me, our friends. Their stories are the stories of some hopes we had, some things we loved and a couple of things we tried...
...Christian-Fäusten Pospisil, the Treyzes have lost their battle in two lower courts. They are now appealing to higher courts, a process that may take as long as two years. Their child will be celebrating his first birthday next week, yet he is still legally nameless. Until the courts come to a final decision, Che-Michael will continue to be officially known in Erding by his registration number: 73/1970...
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...
...former administrator for one of Her Majesty's former African colonies. No Blimp bucking the winds of change, he was cashiered for showing too much sympathy for the local independence movement. After independence, Bray accepts an invitation to return as an educational consultant to Miss Gordimer's nameless, composite, new African nation. His professional commitment to the excruciating process of Third World nation building is complicated because the country's opposing political factions -one moderate, the other revolutionary -are led by two of his former proteges...