Word: lovelessness
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DIED. HARLAN HOWARD, 74, country-music composer whose songs were recorded by Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings and Patty Loveless; of undisclosed causes; in Nashville, Tenn. Howard wrote more than 100 Top 10 hits, including Cline's signature I Fall to Pieces...
...with most things, for "American Century," it's the thoughtful details that make it rich. Harry is Jewish, and so on top of the loveless marriage, boring job and phony friends, he has to put up with the "sheenie" jabs. One day, after getting called back into service by Uncle Sam, he decides to take the cash and gun out of his mysterious safety-deposit box, pound some sense into his anti-Semite boss, and steal an airplane. Shot out the sky, he wrecks into the ocean and presumably finds a watery grave...
...Ultimately, not much needs to be done to make these timeless tunes come to life, and since all of the contributors do solid work, what ends up standing out is a function of the song at hand - there's no faulting Patty Loveless and Dwight Yoakam, but their selections are less memorable than "Blue Night" (Mary Chapin Carpenter), "On the Old Kentucky Shore" (Joan Osborne & Ricky Skaggs) and especially Dolly Parton's rendering of "Cry, Cry Darlin'," a standout by any standard...
...that awkward generation too young to be considered baby-boomers and too old to fit in with the Generation-Xers. They are, rather, the product of the hippie free love that was just beginning to flourish on both sides of Atlantic forty-odd years ago. Born to a loveless woman who leaves both sons with their respective grandparents in order to join a commune in California, Bruno and Michel become, essentially, the direct descendants of their age. Both dracins endure lonely and occasionally brutal childhoods that leave them unlovable and incapable of loving by the time they reach adulthood. Michel...
...relationship in which I was not happy. I think it is more important to let children know that both parents love them and are there for them. If the parents can't live together, then they should live apart and be happy. What does growing up in a loveless marriage do to children? JANET E. LONG Wilmington...