Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Claude's re-education, how can we overlook the essential acid trip? It's administered to him eucharistically by Treat Williams, demagogue of our clan. John Savage does amazing things with his face, acquiring a glassy-eyed glazed expression as his mind launches through fabricated fantasies of wedded bliss with the luscious Beverly D'Angelo (former debutante gone bourgeois freak) to fantasies of back home in the mid-west American Gothic nightmare. These are tangents which are intelligent, tightly edited and don't resort to multi-layered montage fade outs. John Savage does a convincing portraval of the pleasantly naive...
...rivers of water incorruptible; rivers of milk of which the taste never changes; rivers of wine, a joy to those who drink; and rivers of honey pure and clear. In it there are for them all kinds of fruit, and Grace from their Lord. (Can those in such bliss) be compared to such as shall dwell forever in the Fire, and be given, to drink, boiling water, so that it cuts up their bowels...
Ultimately, however, there is nothing that can replace the pure bliss of the first round of spring. The golfer sets out with each of his footprints showing distinctly on the dewy, untouched fairway, confident that he will strike the ball flawlessy for all the shanks and duck hooks of the previous year have been forgotten...
...have noticed." "Well," retorted the prop man, "I can't say I did." It may not have happened that way, of course, but that is the way Alan Ayckbourn, the playwright and strange-looking man, likes to remember it. Not being noticed is his idea of bliss. "When I leave a room," he says, "I'd much prefer for nobody to know I've been...
...Fred O. Bliss Needham, Mass...