Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bears an uncanny physical resemblance to New York Mayor John Vliet Lindsay. The heroine, Gittel Mosca (Michele Lee), is an artsy Jewish girl on the lam from The Bronx to Greenwich Village. She is spunky and sassy, but inwardly scared. Out of mutual need, the pair promptly share bedded bliss until sense collides with sensuality...
...directors were prepared to keep Tsai on almost indefinitely, but he left because he has been unable to capture the presidency of the $1.6 billion conglomerate, ,a job he coveted. Now Tsai has bought control of Knight, Carry, Bliss & Co., Inc., a medium-sized brokerage firm that specializes in institutional business. "The brokerage business has gone through an unsettling period," Tsai says, "but my impression is that the clouds seem to have lifted. I am interested in concentrating on a limited number of high-quality growth stocks, and I feel very excited about the whole thing." That sounds like...
...that she has an identical twin named Nellie. How to capitalize on this embarrassment of wenches? Bert invents his own identical twin, Fred, who shares the special job with him and thus can only appear when he, Bert, is at work. He marries both barmaids, and then achieves quadruple bliss byas Fred-seducing Bert's wife, and-as Bert-reversing the outrage. But now, he realizes, he is doubly cuckolded (by himself, but never mind). This is intolerable, so he leaves separate notes in which Fred and Bert threaten to drown each other. He makes it appear that their...
Such reminiscences are likely to be followed by what Noyes calls "a mystical state of consciousness." After her recovery, a nurse who nearly died from an allergic reaction to penicillin reported an experience of bliss and ecstasy in which she was idyllically absorbed in contemplating a mental picture of the Taj Mahal. Similarly, Heim reported: "Death through falling is subjectively very pleasant. Those who have died in the mountains have, in their last moments, reviewed their individual pasts in states of transfiguration. Elevated above corporeal grief, they were under the sway of noble and profound thoughts, heavenly music...
...literature, they may leave something to be desired; but as a lesson in prophetic hindsight, McCall's offered a sample of poems written by entertainers when they were too young to know better. From a twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor: "Loving you,/ Loving you,/ Could be such heavenly bliss..." Joan Crawford, who became an expert at playing distraught ladies, offered this line at age 16: "Where are you?/ My heart cries out in agony..." At eleven, Bob Hope began, "I dreamed I was a circus clown./ I wore a funny suit." In his dream, Hope was caught...