Her black boyfriend, Abe, is a bit older than her, in his mid-20s, and when Abe meets her from school one afternoon after orchestra practice, an ice-cream knocked from his hand by a passing young Asian lad on his bike initiates a descent into the underbelly of Luton – a grim, faceless place of racial and geographical demarcations – and into the dark heart of Katie's existence.
Once a sea of faceless office towers and sleepy-eyed office workers, the Marunouchi district in Tokyo is now a place to linger, rather than escape.
BTL is the faceless public's place to let off a little steam or add a bit of knowledge or experience.
The idea behind The Unforgotten was simple but visually disturbing: Place faceless mannequins, dressed in the clothes of victims of gun violence, around the city of Chicago in the exact places where the victims were shot.
A dime-store William Shatner mask was sprayed white to give their bogeyman, Michael Myers, a "faceless" face – and a place in many teens' nightmares.
Props and furniture are moved into place by faceless, shadowy stagehands.
OK, fair point – it's certainly not a faceless spam filter's place to decide if your opinion is right or wrong, but seriously, Tom, we're talking about a CAPTCHA here.
OK, fair point it's certainly not a faceless spam filter's place to decide if your opinion is right or wrong, but seriously, Tom, we're talking about a CAPTCHA here.
Like the denizens of the old West Village trucks, piers, bathhouses, and bars, Catherine M. is addicted to the rush of novelty and controlled menace, to the thrill of sodomy in public places with faceless thugs, and to lightless back rooms full of ambiguous moans where the sudden flare of a match illuminates a grimace.
Of course, supermarkets don't suffer from loss-leading strategies – they simply jack up their margins on other foods to make up for any hit they take on bananas – but as all the value is wrung out of the banana supply market, you can be sure that faceless people in faraway places will be feeling the squeeze.
The fact of the matter is that we know pitifully little about the environmental and working conditions of faceless people in faraway places who grow fruit for our tables, but I have seen enough of foreign fruit "farms" to suspect the worst.
