Campaigns promised to "wifeless young voters" that "all the handsome and intelligent young ladies" supported their party and would show up at rallies.
|
|
"Homeless, wifeless, mistressless, penniless," he invades the Central Park West apartment of his old buddy Norman Cowan and violates the bourgeois propriety of the place in unimaginable ways.
|
|
Isolated and wifeless, Mark departed Ferndale for Australia. With the marriage annulled it was later revealed Mark had remarried and had a child.
|
|
One potential problem with a large number of wifeless men is that many millions of Chinese sex workers appear to represent a broad range of backgrounds. Although prostitution is illegal in China, there may appear expansion of female sex workers to meet increased demand of wifeless men. In China, the female sex work industry has flourished in the 20th century. The number of female sex workers in China increased from 25,000 in 1985 to 420,000 in 1996.
|
|
Some commentators worry that those left wifeless men may be marginalized as being single is barely socially acceptable in a Chinese cultural context. These wifeless men's lives could be seriously influenced by how the public view them. They may have senses of loneliness, self-failure and uselessness and be prone to psychological problems. There is also a possibility of these young men emigrating out of mainland China to other countries with more women (like Ukraine, Russia, and most of the West), if the problem continues to persist.
|
|
He had one recurring role on the short lived prime time show by ABC, The Dana Carvey Show, in April 1996. He often writes, with his longtime friend and writing partner, Ari Schiffer. The two have written multiple pilots together, including one that sold to Touchstone Television. Touchstone purchased the script, Wifeless, which is about two straight best friends who get married.
|
|
In addition to the play being about Teddy's homecoming on a literal level, critics have suggested that, on a metaphoric level, the homecoming is Ruth's. That, symbolically, Ruth comes "home" to "herself": she rediscovers her previous identity prior to her marriage to Teddy. Ironically, as she "comes home" to this family which has been for so long woman-less (motherless, wifeless, etc), she thus abandons her own biological family with Teddy, leaving them now similarly bereft.See Bernard F. Dukore, "A Woman's Place", and Augusta Walker, "Why the Lady Does It", pp. 109–16 and 117–21 in Lahr, Casebook, respectively.
|
|