down-and-out

For Sam Slovick, a filmmaker and writer who has been chronicling the lives of Los Angeles' homeless, interacting with the down-and-out has never been difficult.

Journalist Sam Slovick Spotlights Los Angeles Homeless Through Words, Pictures, Video The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Talked about his down-and-out Dad with admiration, love.

michael koehler | tangletown & beyond « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

For me, his random interviews with various down-and-out characters in Cleveland, on sidewalks and in living rooms, while charmingly syncopated in the Jarmusch family style, with intermittent jazz music and grainy shaky filming, did not result in a clear "what is this about"--although Tom insisted that for him, it was exactly the Cleveland he wished to express, "meant to be an imperfect portrait."

Karin Badt: The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: From Soviet Cannibals to Jarmusch's Cleveland Karin Badt 2011

"Lord of Misrule," by Gordon, is set at a down-and-out racetrack and concerns the troubled inhabitants of that world.

PEN/Faulkner Foundation announces fiction award finalists 2011

"Bitch Slap" follows three badass women -- described in the synopsis as "a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker" -- who venture into the desert with the intention of extorting hundreds of millions of dollars from a gang kingpin.

EXCLUSIVE: The Ladies Of ‘Bitch Slap’ Get Down And Dirty In These Stills » MTV Movies Blog 2010

For me, his random interviews with various down-and-out characters in Cleveland, on sidewalks and in living rooms, while charmingly syncopated in the Jarmusch family style, with intermittent jazz music and grainy shaky filming, did not result in a clear "what is this about"--although Tom insisted that for him, it was exactly the Cleveland he wished to express, "meant to be an imperfect portrait."

Karin Badt: The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: From Soviet Cannibals to Jarmusch's Cleveland Karin Badt 2011

A down-and-out waitress sits glumly on her stoop across the street from a gleaming suburb.

Middle-Class Struggles, Americans Treading Water In Gulf Between Rich And Poor AP 2010

A down-and-out waitress sits glumly on her stoop across the street from a gleaming suburb.

Middle-Class Struggles, Americans Treading Water In Gulf Between Rich And Poor AP 2010

Noticing the deck needs to be repaired leads to you making a note about the deck, which gets processed and turns out to be more than a single step, which in turn leads to a creation of a project surrounding the rehabilitation of your down-and-out deck, which in turn swells your Project List by one more and adds to your general feeling that your Project List might crush you.

How to Maintain a Project List that Doesn’t Crush Your Soul | Impact Lab 2010

Wikipedia describes Alger's stories as, "illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the American Dream of wealth and success through hard work, courage, determination, and concern for others."

Avatar: Believe the hype (review roundup) 2009