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François Truffaut has often spoken of his affection for rapid and startling changes of mood. Shoot the Piano Player careened crazily from farce to thriller, and interludes of pastoral bliss alternated smoothly with scenes of excruciating emotional warfare in Jules and Jim. In these films, Truffaut mingled the various moods; in The Mississippi Mermaid, he segregates them severely. The first half of the film is a thrilling tale of obsession that slides-almost imperceptibly-into an ironic and slightly fanciful romance. The result is certainly Truffaut's smoothest, most professional piece of film making. It is just...
...MICHAEL BLISS...
...responds the disciple. "But I was only trying to convey my own spiritual bliss to the unhappy people of this world...
Profound points are few and often ludicrous, but perhaps one may be ventured here. Re?ization of the world's complexity-that no policy or ideology is right-are sometimes fatal thoughts for a would-be activist. Ignorance, and not knowledge, makes political bliss...
...shortage of fine workmanship, Hollywood is hard put to keep up with the tie-dye boom-which has spread to everything from long-John underwear at $10 a set to wall hangings at $500. After Annie, the West Coast tie-dyer most in demand is Artist Bert Bliss, who has been at it for more than 20 years. Bliss, who works with rayon chiffons, cottons and velvets, does his dyeing in the kitchen, like any housewife. And instead of Annie's concoctions of lye and anilines, he uses a home dyeing product called Rit, right from the supermarket shelf...