Word: dead-end
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Until the last decade or so, turn-of-the-century Vienna was neglected by serious historians of architecture and art, considered somewhere between unfashionable and taboo. The architecture of Josef Hoffmann and Otto Wagner and the paintings of Gustav Klimt were camp curiosities at best -- parochial, high-strung, dead-end digressions. Today, however, a kind of Viennese revival is under way. Prominent designers and architects are producing furniture and buildings distinctly reminiscent of Hoffmann, Wagner and Adolf Loos. Every second book jacket, it seems, has a thick, angular sans serif typeface derived from the Wiener Werkstatte, the seminal crafts collaborative...
Only a decade ago, however, Massachusetts was moribund, the archetypal Frost Belt state frozen in a dead-end past. Its jobless rate was higher than any other industrial state's; plant closings and layoffs were epidemic; deficits deepened. Textile mills and shoe factories became abandoned shells, their great machines rusting. Taxachusetts became the state's unofficial nickname, and businesses, feeling oppressed by heavy levies, were clearing out for more hospitable climates...
...series of coups in an unnamed archduchy, in which increasingly more ruthless leaders usurp the throne. lonesco takes this all-to-obvious premise--e.g. that power corrupts--and revels in its inanity. While facing execution for leading an unsuccessful rebellion, Candor (Glen Whitney) declares that he is a historical dead-end, and that his "rebellion was necessary, if only to prove I'm a criminal." Much of the humor of the play arises from the hackneyed, emotionally-inappropriate intellectualizations in which the characters are endlessly engaged...
...that he required quadruple-bypass surgery. Nine years later a double-bypass was performed. But in both instances the vessels that had been grafted around his heart became plugged with fatty plaque. When the second bypass failed, Lewis had run out of standard medical options. "I was in a dead-end situation," he recalls. "My doctor gave me less than a year to < live...
...Maria lives just west of Third, on a dead-end street where END has been crossed off the sign. The windows in her house are blue. She heads home after a tutoring session in chemistry. Mallory lives just off Sixth Avenue, near the Park Slope line. A streetlamp sheds a pale beam in a circle in front of his house...