Word: dead-end
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...Marie does what's known as "spiraling into" something or other, in her dead-end abusive relationship with EuroChris, we gradually reach an ending that many have found melodramatic, a rocky touch-down. Of course, as Hitchcock of all people has said, one person's melodrama is another's drama, and for many the ending will fit just right. Yet it is difficult to say which of the two main concluding directorial decisions enervate more or whether they do at all. One is honest and realist and therefore acceptable, consistent; the other more of a clumsy attempt at social comment...
...Corbetts submitted their plans to city officials--and got doused in cold water. "Everybody had a problem," recalls Judy. "The police department didn't like the dead-end cul-de-sacs. The fire department didn't like the narrow streets. The public-works department didn't like agriculture mixing with residential. And the planning department picked it apart endlessly...
...would be erroneous to conclude that the public gets nothing more for its subsidies and tax breaks than a handful of new dead-end jobs. Corporate welfare saves existing jobs from immigrating to Mexico. Also, the system inflates corporate bottom lines, as required for the steady elevation of share prices. It would be a serious mistake to curtail corporate welfare before we cure the ills that spawned it--free trade and years of sluggish economic growth. Until that is achieved, the system will continue to protect taxpayers from Washington's more egregious mistakes. JIM CASE Baltimore...
...Congressman and Senator and father of the Vice President; in Carthage. A key mover behind the interstate highway system and a Southern liberal who took unpopular stands against segregation and the Vietnam War, he once advised his son not to settle for the No. 2 spot, calling it a "dead-end street...
While Tad has a healthy irreverence, guarding against the dead-end path of taking life too seriously, he maintains respect and love for the parts of Christmas that are genuine. He thinks fondly of "the tarnished diversity of ornaments Dad and Mom hauled down annually from the Waterville attic," musing that "Christmas ornaments are as close as most regular families ever get to an art collection." Underneath his jaded perspective lies a search for what is real, for what he can cling...