Word: lovelessness
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...there is a good reason to keep a close watch if their child is one of 500 kids in a grade level. Teachers freely admit it's impossible to create individual teaching programs for 30 children in a class. "There aren't enough minutes in the day," says Tom Loveless, who taught in California for nine years and is now director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. "You have to have kids tackling subject matter together as a group. That's a shoe that will pinch for someone." Since the passage of the No Child...
...Albee's Tony-winning play about a rancorous married couple, raised temperatures, eyebrows and hackles throughout the film world. As Nichols recalls, "We weren't allowed to say 'Screw you' in Virginia Woolf. We had to take it out." His next film, The Graduate, in 1967, detailed the passive, loveless affair between a young man and his girlfriend's mother, and daringly mixed physical comedy with the most desperate romance. His boldest film was 1971's Carnal Knowledge, which traced 30 years in the sexual lives of two perpetually immature men. The excoriating chatter in Jules Feiffer's screenplay would...
...remainder of the season, that means most people - there is a consolation: this Hedda is horrible, and Blanchett's performance is terrible. Horrible in the sense that, 114 years after it was written, Henrik Ibsen's play, about the attempts of a general's daughter to transcend her loveless marriage to a feckless history professor, is as misanthropic as ever. And terrible, in that Blanchett's performance inspires awe from the moment she first rises from her sofa to stretch, as smooth and svelte as a leopard...
...that one day, drunk and abandoned in a vacation villa, he savagely attempts to rape a maid. It is a measure of the film's acuity that that is not the end of Christoffer. When next we see him, he's wearing a suit and tie, entering into a loveless second marriage, allowing himself to be claustrophobically re-enfolded in his family's smothering embrace...
...Russian backwater town, the three sisters of Chekhov's play famously yearn for Moscow, their hopes for love and life all the while fading to gray. Perhaps the most in need of medication is youngest sister Irina, who clocks up dismal hours in the local telegraph office and whose loveless engagement to an army lieutenant ends when he is killed in a duel. With her limpid eyes and languid limbs, Rose Byrne was born to play Irina - as she did in a shrill but memorable Sydney Theatre Company production in 2001. Like a sunflower starved of light, her wilting heroine...