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Word: blisse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kite rises to celestial regions, My soul enters the abode of bliss. ?Buddhist monk, 9th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Kites Are Flying Sky High | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...married to feel the strain of that imposing bond; our lives are filled with couples who hang on to each other, bored but afraid to see what else is out there, trading happiness for security. For everyone who has ever contemplated the pros and cons of connubial bliss, Stephen Sondheim has a musical...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Union Dues | 3/7/1978 | See Source »

...lurking about her or walking up and down the steps to a throne. There are also political complications in Leonora's life. Fernando is no match for all this. (Bad luck: he could have provided Lohengrin's Elsa, who also had trouble with names, with the years of bovine bliss she deserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Luciano's Back in Town | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...first time, Erica is without a man, and she must learn how to adjust. Eventually she does, but not without the help of a therapist and a new lover, an artist played by Alan Bates. By the end, Erica has arrived at a state of hard-won feminist bliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love the Second Time Around | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...comedy Shampoo, Director Hal Ashby drew a scathing portrait of privileged Americans living in selfish bliss during the Viet Nam War. Shampoo was set in Beverly Hills against the pointedly ironic background of the 1968 presidential election; its characters were upper-middle-class philanderers whose lives revolved around the chic local beauty salon. Throughout the film, sad news from Southeast Asia blares forth from radios and TV sets, but no one in Shampoo bothers to listen. They are all too busy getting ready for a Nixon victory party that night to care about a war that seems a million miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Dark at the End off the Tunnel | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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