Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, who has been playing basketball since his embryonic stage, became "confused" and sank a seven-foot jump shot into the wrong basket just as the game ended. So what, you ask, as long as Monroe's beloved Knicks still won the game? Ah, ignorance is bliss...
Friends noticed the difference in the Morgans and asked for advice. Groups were formed, luncheons held. Several of the Miami Dolphins' wives tried the Morgan method. Result: well-publicized bliss. Says Charlie: "It snowballed. At night women would call every half-hour until midnight. I was about to go up the wall...
...with a precise idea of heaven: "The right sort of train to London ... a morning train, with a good breakfast car, lots of coffee and toast and bacon and eggs and marmalade, the newspaper, and two or three hours of pleasantly changing views through the window." Alas, such bliss is denied him. On holiday in Italy, Brock and his girl friend are drowned when their cruise ship sinks. Because of his record of unrepented fornications, he is sentenced to the Second Circle of Hell -Dante's Circle of the Lascivious...
...brink of alcoholism and took 150 drops a day of laudanum-twice the dose fatal to a nonaddict. Yet the drug Baudelaire was most addicted to was hope: luxe, calme et volupté-the elegance of Islamic paradise, a Christian's heavenly peace and a pagan bliss of the senses. Baudelaire chanted of this blessed trinity while he suffered the diseases of the age: poverty, rage and soul-withering ennui...
...well, maybe your cup of tea--much better to see Serpico battling crooked cops than Clint Eastwood murdering everybody. But the bloody scenes alternate with Serpico's home life, which is just about as boring as your uncle's. Still, great drive-in fare. Sit in the balcony and bliss out, waking up only when you gunfire...