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...then the lover who speak is really you, Roland Barthes?" (Playboy. 9 77), would result in a "perversion" of sorts. As it is, we remain disengaged but eventually innocent, legitimate spectators rather than accomplices, "Perversion," Barthes says, "quite simply, make one happy": though this may be a principle of "bliss," a certain "pleasure" lies with this chaste silence. "Your question is a good one, not because I have an answer ready, but because it touches on something absorbing...
...Shakespearean romance, nothing is ever quite as it seems. Women constantly disguising as men, fools providing wisdom to elderly sages--you name the incongruity, and chances are, it's there. Yet somehow, amidst such seeming chaos, playwright and characters always manage to extricate themselves from confusion and discover matrimonial bliss before the final curtain falls...
...record turns dark in mood, and heavy. This is not to say that it takes on real weight, however, only that it seems to be buckling under the pull of some nonspecific gravity. A woman who can work up a fail-safe two-line recipe for romantic bliss ("Make him some catfish/ Fry it up in bed") has humor to spare and no further need to flash her credentials for high seriousness. The same notion remains: if the next record comes faster, it ought to be even better...
...Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack told the rally that if U.S. soldiers were used in Central America, the war would probably spread to the rest of Central America, Mexico and perhaps, in the form of terrorism, to the United States...
...This week the company will announce that Bruce Crawford, 55, president of the BBDO International advertising agency, will succeed Anthony A. Bliss as Met general manager...