Bill is first seen leading a dead-end existence, busing tables in a chain restaurant.
I was stuck in an isolated dead-end existence within the family home, and as I wrote in the Guardian recently my mother was my only carer.
She married in her teens and had six children by the time she was 21 but dreamed of escaping her dead-end existence on the poverty line.
Without making a fuss about it, "Touching Home" looks squarely at working-class people for whom professional sports are not just a fantasy, they are also a way out of a dead-end existence.
Mike's dead-end existence is unsettled by a sudden glimpse of heaven when an attractive guest, Sue Claussen Jennifer Anistonn), who sells the kind of sterile corporate art found on motel walls, checks in for a short stay.
The second work in the trilogy that includes "Flesh" (1968) and "Heat" (1971), it attempted to capture, as Mr. Morrissey put it, "the dead-end existence of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll".
This depiction of a pornographic studio portrays the actors and producers as a supportive pseudofamily in a world that seems more stable and nourishing than Angelina's dead-end existence working in a Laundromat and living with an alcoholic mother (Lili Taylor).
Individually and collectively, these guys could have decided that childhood circumstances qualified them for a dead-end existence.
Just like so many young men in our community who feel limited and believe they have no way out of a dead-end existence, Davidson joined the military.
This enthralling, nearly three hour film chronicles the fortunes of two Chicago inner-city youths who look to basketball as their ticket out of a dead-end existence.
