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...Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack, who is also a member of the Rockefeller Center’s executive committee, said Harvard will benefit from Coyula-Cowley’s extensive knowledge of urban design and planning...
...create an incredibly satisfying sound that really resembles neither. Despite the album’s cool bluesy blue that resounds against an almost mathematical precision, what emerges from this darkness is not danger but a deeply sexy rhythm that deftly balances tension and comfort. By their second album, Irresistible Bliss (1996), Soul Coughing had settled on a more summery sound, letting up the tension a bit in favor of a sly, upbeat smile, and even sampling a swinging Vaudeville melody for “Disseminated.” And on their third and final album, El Oso (1998), radio-friendly...
...frail but persuasive tenor voice; for example, in the phrase "And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak," the melody zigzags up to a note Astaire can hardly sing. The song's daring swings of rhythm and emotion consecutively express three moods of a lover in pursuit - bliss ("Heaven, I'm in heaven"), jauntiness ("Oh, I love to climb a mountain...") and desperate ardor ("Dance with me!") - which Astaire's dance of seduction with Ginger Rogers sublimely dramatizes. It's a miraculous piece of music, and Berlin wrote...
...what becomes of Nafas or the woman she wanted to rescue. What we get instead is a movie that is at once primitive and sophisticated, a near documentary that tells us much about harsh current reality, yet also often achieves moments of something akin to aesthetic bliss...
...some people, it seems ignorance is indeed bliss. "I find the whole thing terribly depressing, and every day there is something worse," says an 80-year-old retired Czech social worker. "My doctor even told me to stop reading the papers. He said, 'Look at me. I don't read the papers, and how do I look?' He looks great...