Word: lovesick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dating this guy for six years and then yesterday he told me he wants to break up and go out with some other girl. How can he do this to me? --Lovesick in Leverett...
...luck of the world if one is born in the country club district of Kansas City instead of the Sahel or Bangladesh. It is the sad luck of things for a Colorado oil millionaire if his youngest child, by mishaps of the psyche, turns out to harbor some fetid, lovesick ambition to kill the President...
...title role. Marjorie Hellmold gives the innocent milkmaid just the right touch of flirtatiousness, and her naivete becomes appealing, not ludicrous. Unfortunately, she, too, suffers from the chorus's conspicuous horsing around. Throughout her first act solo. "I cannot tell what this 'love' may be," the ensemble of "lovesick maidens" is sneaking up on her and trying to strangle her with their tear-stained handkerchieves, only to trip over themselves as she steps out of their path. Hellmold sings sweetly and sincerely, and it is a shame that the chorus should detract from her performance...
...most puzzling examples of excessive direction are the two male leads, the "fleshly poet" Bunthorne and the "idyllic poet" Grosvenor, who inherits the train of lovesick maidens from Bunthorne in the second act. (Audiences at the first performance of "Patience," exactly one hundred years ago today, recognized these two as thinly disguised versions of Oscar Wilde and Algernon Swinburne.) It is an accepted convention in American performances of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for the singers to imitate a British accent. The convention is not a sacrosant one: as Broadway's current production of The Pirates of Penzance with Linda Ronstadt...