Word: blisse
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...love's bed. On St. Valentine's Day more than any other time during the year, we want to be one half of that well-dressed couple insouciantly holding hands as they traipse off to their romantic evening. We want the idyllic romance, the legendary love, that state of bliss so eloquently described on a thousand frilly paper hearts. And if we haven't attained this state of perfect ardor, we are well-inclined to sit at home and curse the very institution of couplehood and romantic love...
...laugh at Puck, but rather we laugh along with him. His misfortunes--academic stress, romantic ineptitude and jealousy of a too-perfect roommate--touch on our own carefully guarded sentiments. And interspersed among these periods of self-doubt are quiet walks among the leaves, moments of innocent bliss that we, too, can share...
Thought the Walkman and Discman were pretty cool in the '80s and '90s? Imagine walking the streets with every tune you own (and quite a few you borrowed) in your pocket, one button push away from total aural bliss...
...Jernigan, whose solo set I stick around for before heading home. He opens with the bebop standard "Jordu," effectively blowing away about 99 percent of the field, then satisfies the country contingent's needs with terrifying versions of "Black Mountain Rag" and "Orange Blossom Special." I smile in idiotic bliss...
...just months before war broke out, Marc found it impossible to ignore the tense conditions in Germany. His painting "The Poor Country of Tyrol" is a stark contrast to his earlier depictions of equine bliss. With its chalky gray background, desolate black outlines and weak streaks of color, Marc's depiction of this disputed territory is a chilling premonition of the destruction the war was to bring. Marc's horses have not disappeared from the landscape, but they have lost all of their vitality. Their stick-like heads lowered, they serve more as symbols of the unhappy land rather than...