Word: dead-end
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...treatment have taken the heroin problem off the front pages. "People think it's all O.K., but that's not the case." A few steps from his office, behind a main street crammed with busy restaurants and small retailers, two chairs have been put in a grim but secluded dead-end alley. The spot is a favorite with local addicts, whose used syringes litter the ground. Tregear and his colleagues help some of them into treatment, despite long waiting lists, and then back to school or work. In the past six months, the outreach team has counted about...
...five. Performers thus have few opportunities to be employed, let alone become stars. Nobody these days graduates from Broadway musicals to mainstream celebrity, as Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Julie Andrews, Streisand and dozens of others did. Why would any young person would want to be part of this antique, dead-end genre? It's like dreaming of becoming a hat blocker or a Yiddish scholar. What kid in the hinterlands would even know that a clear, crisp Broadway vocal style exists, when "American Idol" teaches that pop crooning is a demonstration of wild vibrato work and orgasmic emoting? My friend...
...It’s a dead-end job with a program that has become a conference doormat...
...Phillips, the dialogue groups are about much more than good conversation. "It's grass-roots democracy," he says. "It's only in a group setting that people can hash out their ideas about how we should act not just as an individual but as a society." To avoid divisive dead-end arguments, the cafes frequently turn current events into broader philosophical questions. For example, rather than asking whether the U.S. and its allies should have invaded Iraq, a group asked, "What is a just war?" Instead of arguing about whether gay couples should marry, another cafe asked, "What...
...Eternal Sunshine, Carrey and Winslet are Joel and Clem, two sad sacks trapped in a dead-end, no-hope, kill-me-now love affair in small-town Long Island, N.Y. They can't stand each other, and they can't break up. Out of desperation Clem undergoes a medical procedure that wipes all traces of Joel from her memory. When Joel finds out about it, he goes to the same doctor to have Clem erased too. It's a love story, but it's also an existential head scratcher, an endless M.C. Escher escalator. Who's to say the doomed...