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  • This was the perfect set-up for a joke, but I couldn't find a single headline in a major Canadian daily that read: "Harper Running a Dead-End Campaign."

    Bill Mann: What I've Learned From Canada's Election Campaign Bill Mann 2011

  • Perhaps its the fact that these films are even more obscure than Patrick or Dead-End Drive In of the so-called "Ozploitation" movement, but there's no effort made to show how the effects of these Filipino genre films are still being felt today.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Glenn Dunks 2010

  • Perhaps its the fact that these films are even more obscure than Patrick or Dead-End Drive In of the so-called "Ozploitation" movement, but there's no effort made to show how the effects of these Filipino genre films are still being felt today.

    MIFF 2010 Review: Machete Maidens Unleashed! Glenn Dunks 2010

  • Brian Trenchard-Smith's Dead-End Drive In, one of the most acclaimed of the genre, played to empty cinemas on opening weekend in 1986.

    Disappearing Thrills Glenn Dunks 2010

  • Brian Trenchard-Smith's Dead-End Drive In, one of the most acclaimed of the genre, played to empty cinemas on opening weekend in 1986.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Glenn Dunks 2010

  • The latest Dead-End Job mystery (see CLUBBED TO DEATH) is an exciting whodunit made much more fascinating by the fact that the victim is an unsympathetic character who had enough enemies to fill the Miami Orange Bowl (pre- demolition that is).

    Killer Cuts-Elaine Viets « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

  • If the Seattle NAACP had their act together, they would have booked Seattle's Town Hall for a community forum featuring Williams on the bracing challenges posed to black activists in his recently-published book, "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America -- and What We Can Do About It."

    Sound Politics: Seattle NAACP: "We Didn't Do A Lot, But We Held On" 2007

  • Ofer continued to deal with the same topic in her next book, co-authored with Hannah Wiener, which appeared in Hebrew in 1992 and in 1996 in English translation, entitled The Dead-End Journey: The Tragic Story of the Kladovo-Sabac Group.

    Dalia Ofer. 2009

  • Her Dead-End Job series is light and funny but it also looks at those people who live on minimum wage and are often the "invisible" segment of our society.

    Jason Pinter: The State of the Crime Novel 2009

  • EV: I am awakened by my agent, who says he sold the movie rights for my Dead-End Job series to Spielberg.

    April 2006 2006

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