Word: blissed
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Celebrities, gay-marriage bans and fear of divorce are helping fuel the rise in unwedded bliss. "We love each other far, far too much to ever actually get married," says Raymond McCauley, 43, a biotech engineer in Mountain View, Calif., who has twin 2-year-olds with his partner of five years, Kristina Hathaway. His opposition to marriage is political, in solidarity with gays who can't legally wed in most states, and personal - he and his partner both got divorced in their 20s, an experience that has led McCauley to liken marriage to food poisoning: "You don't want...
...vampire-priest in Seoul, a French crime lord in Hong Kong and an American drug-dealer in Tokyo. Sam Raimi brought a horror movie about a gypsy curse, and Quentin Tarantino enlisted in a fantasy World War II. Gay lovers disported in China, and Ang Lee found psychedelic bliss in Woodstock, 1969. Hard-core sex and violence splattered the giant Lumiere screen...
...David Bliss, head of consulting firm Oliver Wyman's board-advisory unit, says he has been busy and has received more calls from large financial firms in the past few months. Nonetheless, Bliss says the most troubled banks may have a tough time finding willing and able directors. He says it's harder today to find people to serve on corporate boards, in part because Sarbanes-Oxley has increased the work that board members must do. But Bliss says the biggest thing that keeps people from serving on a bank board is the social risk. "No one wants...
...suburbia’s trouble in paradise; “Revolutionary Road,” “The Stepford Wives,” and “American Beauty,” for example, are a few of the many films that deal with the farce of suburban bliss. Director Derick Martini’s latest dramedy, “Lymelife,” is another, but it strips that jaded quality which clings to others of the genre. What is most impressive about “Lymelife” is its ability to distinguish itself from the legacy...
...what Joan Stenzler, a licensed clinical social worker and a yoga teacher in Fresh Meadows, N.Y., tries to create in her sessions. In addition to using physical yoga poses, Stenzler teaches her clients about the five koshas, or layers of consciousness, in yoga: physical, energetic, mental-emotional, wisdom and bliss. "Each kosha represents one aspect of our existence or consciousness and can potentially be open and accessible to the individual, or blocked," says Stenzler, who helps patients identify and free themselves from their areas of blockage...