Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Federation of Musicians. "We prefer to say 'withdraw our services.' " However one cared to put it, the lines were drawn last week for a possibly fateful labor struggle at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Since he was appointed executive director a year ago, Anthony A. Bliss, 62, has been negotiating with the 14 artistic and craft unions at the Met over new contracts. All have been performing since the summer under contract extensions that expire on New Year's Day. The musicians now say they will not agree to another extension but will withdraw their...
...Playboy is hardly remarkable: a couple of bare arms and a single unholstered breast. But those appendages belong not to one comely lady but to two, and their embrace suggests something more than a hello. Inside are ten color pages of female couples in various stages of sapphic bliss. Has Playboy, the bible of macho heterosexuality, gone lesbian...
...mechanical chronos that has been foreign to most human experience. All organisms have "circadian" rhythms (from circa, about, and diem, day), whose periodicity is a response to biological needs. The psychological sense of time is one of durée, of bleak moments and moments of bliss, of the agony of time prolonged and time eclipsed; memory is not the function of a "length" of time, but of its intensity. Most important, in the area of work-the experience that shapes character-time was long considered a function not of the clock, but of the sun and the seasons...
Maybe things are not all we would like them to be in Portugal, but there are damned few places, including our own country, that are following the perfect path to human bliss...
...longer the hip Steve and Eydie of prime-time television, Sonny and Cher have been living their lives like a daytime soap opera. Just three days after the couple's June 27 divorce, you may recall, Cher married Rock Singer Gregg Allman. Her second try at wedded bliss lasted only nine days, however, before Cher returned to court to file for another divorce. Then last week while Sonny was plugging his new solo act on NBC's Tonight Show, who should stroll onstage for a surprise visit? None other than the prodigal Cher herself. Friends of the couple...