Word: lovelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lover by getting rid of the kids, we will never know for sure. Either way, she was an extremist in the cause of love, and her sons, horribly enough, were human sacrifices to it. "Good" women put the children first. They forgo disruptive romantic entanglements; if necessary, they endure loveless marriages until the kids grow up. This is what Susan Smith would have done if she had any capacity for conventional feminine virtue: stuck by her philandering husband, and of course refrained from fooling around herself. Not that the children would necessarily have had an easy time of it. Women...
...Loveless, assistant professor of public policy in the Kennedy School of Government, and Yasemin Soysal, a John Loeb associate professor of sociology, made it through the two step evaluation process to succeed in the national competition...
...Loveless was out of town and could not be reached for comment...
...first member of Congress, if not the first author, to have a fiction and a nonfiction book published within days of each other. Meanwhile, he has an agent shopping 1945 around Hollywood, where screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct) facetiously rejected it as having too much of the loveless sex and mindless violence that Bob Dole deplores...
True Romance, a terrific movie, is, in fact, a wicked-smart argument in favor of family values. Sustained by their passion for each other (their sex life is anything but "loveless"), a deliriously innocent couple defeats every form of contemporary corruption and emerges in that most blessed of American states-millionaires contentedly cavorting on a beach with their pretty blond baby. Their path to this paradisial state may be strewn with violence, but it is far from "mindless." Its excesses are brilliantly calculated satire...