Word: dead-end
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...people into dead-end, areas where there are no jobs," he said...
...merchandising America. It is the ghost town of the Penthouse pleasure seekers stinking with the excrements of honky-tonk commercialism. The King of Marvin Gardens, written by Jacob Brackman and directed by Bob Rafelson, tortures Atlantic City's dying glory into a monopoly game of cultural dimensions, the bankrupt dead-end of the American dream...
...archetypal poor white southerner, often surprising in the breadth of his populism, often frightening in the intensity of his discontent. His epitome seems to lie somewhere between two men I talked to on a little side street only a few hundred yards from Sanford's university. It's a dead-end street, with about a dozen small white houses with porches and yards tiny enough for playing children to have trodden away all the grass. The tobacco factories are within walking distance, and even closer are streets where black people live; indeed, on one nearby block the two races face...
...jobs. Says Barbara Brush, an equal-employment specialist in San Francisco: "Once a woman sets herself up that way, even though she moves on to more interesting work, her salary will be $100 a week below a man's." Reason: if she starts low. she stays low. The dead-end clerical route is considered so hazardous by many career advisers that they tell talented women students not even to learn secretarial skills...
Minnie Moore (Gena Rowlands) works in the Los Angeles County Art Museum and is involved in a dead-end affair with a married man. She spends a lot of time at the movies too, doting on the soft-focus images of her dreams. "Florence," she tipsily confides to a friend late one night, "I never had a Charles Boyer in my life." Instead, she gets Seymour Moskowitz, who pursues her with the fierce dedication of a sans-culotte storming the Bastille. His final victory makes for one of the rarest screen events: a believable and totally appropriate happy ending...