Word: blissed
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Another travel writer, one who confined his searchings to the space within the borders of his native country, may actually provide perhaps the best prototype of Theroux's style. Jack Kerouac broke out into the open road in the mid-50s with the coitus-and narcotic-addled bliss of a youth set free from the narrow confines of hometown and ceremonial life. Theroux has also journeyed on the open road, but on a far more expansive one. Encompassing both adventure and introspection, he has recorded journeys from Victoria Station to Siberia, and back, in The Old Railway Bazaar; and from...
...apparent domestic bliss (illustrated annoyingly with giddy romps on the beach to the strains of Billy Joel), the affair begins to take on an air of "Star is Born" fatality. Tory, at first the more stable of the two, has a drunken tantrum at a party when Chris dances with a man. Things get tenser as it becomes likely that the pair, now evenly matched, will have to compete against each other to go to the Olympics, a prospect they have feared since their first night, when they got stoned, watched TV, arm-wrestled steamily before hopping into...
Thematically, The Blue Mask is a study in contrasts. The album opens with the "My House," an uncharacteristic yet moving look at marital bliss featuring Reed and his wife Sylvia at home. Love and contentment run thickly through this track, as they do through rocker that espouses heterosexual love as they ultimate salvation in a mad world...
...previous marital flings: Hotelier Conrad Hilton Jr. in 1950; British Actor Michael Wilding in 1952; Producer Mike Todd in 1957; Singer Eddie Fisher in 1959; and Actor Richard Burton in 1964 and again in 1975. In the early stages of Liz and John's relationship, all was bliss: he was the silver-haired political newcomer, she was his superstar hustings-mate and bubbling party-circuit matron. But when she detoured to her Broadway triumph in The Little Foxes, it was reported that those violet eyes began to wander. At one point, she was linked to Foxes Producer Zev Bufman...
Crimson co-captain Tom Baker said that though the team and "especially co-captain Jon Epstein played excellently throughout the competition," the absence of three of its starters "definitely affected the outcome of the games." Simon Long went to India, while Bennett Goldberg and Charlie Bliss were with their girl friends, Baker added...