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The five songs that most explicitly evoke the attacks — "Into the Fire," "Empty Sky," "You're Missing," "The Rising," and "My City of Ruins" — reduce the events to an anonymous domestic fragment ("Just an empty impression / In the bed where you used to be," or "Coffee cup's on the counter, jacket's on the chair / Paper's on the doorstep, but you're not there").
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Despite TV scenes of a crowded continent under siege, we had come away with the recurring impression of empty spaces: the pine forests of northern Greece, the vast uninhabited swathes of the Bulgarian Rhodope mountains and now, Poland's forests.
But with cars the preserve of a few privileged government officers, and bicycles not common either, the streets are usually empty, giving an eerie impression of an overbuilt ghost town.
I still vividly remember my first impression of empty space, and Melbourne's skyscrapers pointing out of the horizon were amazing.
Some good news, then: "Renaissance" isn't all empty flash, despite that early impression.
The mosques I visited were so empty as to give the impression that Iran was as secular as Western Europe.
State media said on Monday "armed terrorist groups" were firing mortars in the city, setting fire to tyres and blowing up empty buildings to give the impression that Homs was under fire from Assad's forces.
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Revolver also refused to acknowledge changing tastes: "As customers arrived, looked through the racks, then slowly left, their empty-handed departure gave the impression they had long grown tired of seeing the same wilting sleeves in front of each divider".
Sitting down in the kitchen among takeout menus, a race-car set and a bin of empty beer bottles, I let the impressions sink in.
The old goal of marketing was to "buy eyeballs" of passive, reflexive consumers, relying on repetition, slogans, empty claims and of course massive impressions to pummel the consumer down the purchase funnel.
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