I was sat with my family and there were lots of
familiar faces in the crowd.
As I am standing in line waiting for the widely accepted indignities of pat - downs and body scans that are now a common part of traveling in the post 9/11 world, I spot
a familiar face in the crowd.
Not exact matches
Forgetting the idiosyncratic, unspeakably diverse
crowds of strangers, we become drawn through television to the
familiar faces, myths and visions of the American Way of Life, thereby putting ourselves
in touch with a shared vision of the human order — a vision that engages our loyalties and makes sense of our world.
Mayoral candidate Ben Walsh,
in the yellow glow of a few stage lights, spun a pen
in his hand, looking out at a
crowd of
familiar faces.
You can scan a
crowded lobby and pick out a
familiar face in a fraction of a second, a task that pushes even today's best computers to their limit.
And if there had been a
crowd, they wouldn't have been recognized; not until one year later, with the Post's Watergate scoops (and, still more, with the 1976 movie based on that grander adventure
in newspapering), did the two become household names and
familiar faces.
Too bad, though, because while Cars is hardly a stellar work, a
familiar face to spy
in a
crowd might have given this flick a glimmer of excitement.
They barely register at first, as the camera holds on an extended shot of everyone
in attendance —
faces in a
crowd of regular people preparing to enjoy a
familiar, communal pleasure.
The party continued long after the final credits rolled for the 2014 Bafta Awards on Sunday night and there were plenty of
familiar faces standing out
in the
crowd.
Anyone
familiar with the AKI / THQ graps games should know what to expect here — woeful pixellated cardboard cutouts
in the
crowd, wrestlers with the same determined grimace on their
faces no matter the scenario, and some muppet pratting about on a Casio keyboard on loop for 37 hours.
Those
familiar with her previous work will recognize elements that recall past collections, specifically the
Face in the
Crowd project from 2013 that shares the contrast between
crowded public spaces and a lone heroine with her latest works.
Finding my way around New York
in spring,
in addition to
faces in the
crowd, I see
familiar friends
in paintings.
Since we are a bit lost and disoriented, our brains miscalculate the
faces of strangers
in the
crowd in an attempt to find the
familiar.