Word: dead-end
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Playgoers are almost forced to ponder the nature of humor by Comedians. It is a hilarious-abrasive, funny-unfunny analysis-cwra-demonstration of why we laugh at all. Six Manchester men with dead-end jobs aspire to be entertainers in workingmen's clubs, with a possible whack at the London big time. Each act is one leg of a tripod-final warmup, audition, postmortem...
...Angeles, Janis Stark, 26, a telephone installer, drags around 60 lbs. of equipment and says that "going up telephone poles was fearsome at first. Now it's second nature." Still less usual is the work of Evelyn Newell, 28; tired of her dead-end job as a railway clerk, she apprenticed as a fireman and attended a locomotive training school, becoming the first woman locomotive engineer in the U.S. With three years' experience, she now earns close to $25,000 annually. The support from the men on the job has been terrific, she says. "There are no conflicts...
...PASSENGER. A thriller that is also a cipher about a journalist (Jack Nicholson) who swaps identities with a dead man. Michelangelo Antonioni's film is full of dead-end romanticism and voluptuous mystery...
...major market but the bastion of a wholly different rock style. It remained to be seen how Springsteen would go down in a scene whose characteristic pop music is softer, easier, pitched to life on the beaches and in the canyons, hardly in tune with his sort of dead-end carnival. Springsteen's four-day stand at a Sunset Strip theater called the Roxy was a massive dose of culture shock that booted everyone back to the roots, shook 'em up good and got 'em all on their feet dancing...
...well. "I'm Carlos' double," the gentleman insists before scooting off. Indeed, many people are not what they seem to be. Swami Hal, for example, is a 260-lb. mystic who runs a kind of Boys' Town ashram in the Northwest wilderness and talks like a dead-end...