Word: culdesac
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...these waters. Rozanov, who is supposed to have all the answers, is rumored to be writing the book that will cap his brilliant career. Privately, he is in despair. His lifelong search for truth, for a logical edifice that will support the notion of morality, has arrived at a culdesac. He now admits that "at the bottom, which isn't very far down, it's all rubble, jumble. Not even muck but jumble...
...Woody Allen's 8½.Taking his cue from Federico Fellini's great comic fantasy, Allen has set his film in a resort hotel and cast himself as a film maker, very much like the Woody Allen we think we know, who finds himself in a creative culdesac. The film mixes memory and fantasy with the surreal-life present. Its visual style is a gloss on 8½'s: seductive black-and-white images, express-train pacing, a foregrounding of comic bit players. The three main women in 8½ (a mistress, a wife, an earthy guardian...
...start a whole new realistic trend in staging the Ring. After the innovative Wieland Wagner began presenting his grandfather's works as absorbing formal abstractions at Bayreuth in the early 1950s, the imitators began falling into line. Says London: "Soon everyone was in a culdesac, with no place to go. That is when the gimmicks started popping up. In one Ring in Germany, for example, the Valkyries came in on motorcycles. In France, Wotan wore a top hat and tails. Enough. It's poisonous. We have to go back to the source...
...suddenly began broadening and upgrading its lines of clothing, furnishings and appliances in an apparent effort to try to compete with J.C. Penney and Sears. To make these costlier goods easy to buy, the company peddled a variety of credit-card plans that eventually led it into a financial culdesac. To buy inventory, Grants borrowed heavily at high rates, and then had to wait for customers to pay their bills...