Word: lovelessness
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...what about the loveless ones who cringe at the thought of Valentine...
Henrik Ibsen wrote his three-act play, Ghosts, in response to the critical furor engendered by his unabashedly pro-feminist play, A Doll's House. Instead of depicting a woman who abandons a condescending husband, Ghosts portrays a resolute female protagonist who suffers the after-effects of loveless marriage...
...Chekhov's script. Fyodor Ilich Kulygin (Glenn Kessler) begins each of his scenes by asking for the whereabouts of his wife, Masha (Patricia Goldman). This habit, funny at first, becomes tragic as Kessler is revealed to be a man hopelessly trying to deny the grim reality of his loveless marriage. The alienation of the characters in The Three Sisters becomes so forceful at the production's conclusion precisely because it appears so harmlessly amusing in the play's opening scenes...
FINALLY, I took matters into my own hands. After hearing endless refrains of "I'm going to the Leverett, North, Lowell, Cabot and Winthrop formals. Are you going to any?" I was fed up with my loveless state. I did something I never ever thought I would do. Something incomprehensible. I decided to ask someone to the Quincy formal...
LONDON FIELDS by Martin Amis (Harmony; $19.95). The British author of Success and Money: A Suicide Note produces a murderously funny novel about a 1990s world that is tumbling inexorably toward a loveless void...