Its integration into every function of life, from speaking and learning to the forming of relationships, actually makes its loss all the more difficult to comprehend, since the visible repercussions – repetition, confusion, anxiety, and mood swings – distract us from the deeper, more intangible privation.
This is to be expected: mayors often have more intimate contact with constituents, greater discretion to undertake prevention and visible priorities (and repercussions if they don't meet them).
The repercussions are visible everywhere.
The repercussions have been particularly visible at LAX where the airline has heated up the kind of competition the airport hasn't seen in recent memory.
Women lawyers who seek to work from home for part of the working week are subject to adverse repercussions because they are not visible, apart from the stereotypical assumptions about motherhood.
The social justice infrastructure that has grown and been extended and is highly visible now -- this can have lasting political repercussions for progressive politics in North Carolina -- and that helps the equality movement nationally in the end.
"Remains" focuses on the repercussions of invisibility, and the objects that make visible those people or communities excluded from the historical record.
If anything, the European tour by Mr. Geithner is a visible reminder that the euro crisis, which began in early 2010, is having global repercussions.
And a centrist deputy, Marie-Thérèse Boisseau, voiced concern about the repercussions for men, saying that, while "maternity is by nature always visible, paternity, always uncertain, is established by the name".
"The repercussions to us, in international relations and on financial markets, would be visible immediately, and could be impossible to recover from," Mr. Napolitano said in a speech to a parliamentary press club.
